Former BC Lion Josh Boden has been sentenced to 12 months in jail for sexually assaulting two women at Vancouver SkyTrain stations in 2009.
Boden was found guilty in December of two counts of sexual assault and one count each of obstruction of justice and assault on a police officer.
In one case, Boden grabbed a woman’s buttocks and chestwhile she was riding an escalator at the Burrard Station.
The judge said Boden has taken little responsibility and lacks insight for the “crude and opportunistic” assaults.
Boden will spend six months in jail with credit for time already served.
Crown prosecutor Michaela Donnelly says it took four officers, one civilian and a police dog to subdue Boden during his arrest at the scene after one of the sexual assaults.
He said officers described the takedown as the most violent case of resisting arrest they had ever experienced.
The prosecutor asked that eight months of jail time be served simultaneously for each of the sexual assaults, followed by another set of four months at the same time for the other two convictions.
With files from the Canadian Press
