{"id":36415,"date":"2023-06-11T18:30:13","date_gmt":"2023-06-11T21:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelaker.ca\/?p=36415"},"modified":"2023-06-11T18:30:13","modified_gmt":"2023-06-11T21:30:13","slug":"enfield-man-handed-27-month-sentence-for-sex-offence-involving-girls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/?p=36415","title":{"rendered":"Enfield man handed 27 month sentence for sex offence involving girls"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;78&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;115&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ENFIELD:<\/strong> An Enfield man has found out his sentence for sex offences involving young girls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At N.S. Supreme Court in Truro recently, 38-year-old Carlos Moraga was sentenced to 27 months in prison for the sex offences. He had pled guilty to sexual interference and making child pornography.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The interference charge is related to two incidents where Moraga groped a 14-year-old girl, the daughter of a woman who he knows.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The child pornography charge, however, varies as it didn\u2019t involved any images, but was a graphic email exchange that was between himself and another man, Peter Moorhouse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ADVERTISEMENT:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;84&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;190&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the summer of 2022, Moorhouse, also of Enfield, pleaded guilty to two sex offences. However, his sentencing has been continuously delayed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The child pornography charges carry a mandatory minimum sentence of a year in jail.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That minimum may be struck down by the Supreme Court in an anticipated ruling they are set to make soon..<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Before he was charged, Moorhouse was the Atlantic president of the Better Business Bureau.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ADVERTISEMENT:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate group=&#8221;2&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;111&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Besides the prison term, Moraga&#8217;s DNA will be placed on a national data bank.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His name will be added to the national sex offender registry for 20 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Moraga will also have very restricted access to the internet for 15 years upon his prison release.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;169&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;126&#8243;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;78&#8243;] [adrotate banner=&#8221;115&#8243;] ENFIELD: An Enfield man has found out his sentence for sex offences involving young girls. At N.S. Supreme Court in Truro recently, 38-year-old Carlos Moraga was sentenced to 27 months in prison for the sex offences. He had pled guilty to sexual interference and making child pornography. The interference charge is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20241,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[965,12],"tags":[2688,196,4721,1820,5047,5048],"class_list":["post-36415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-east-hants","category-featured","tag-carlos-moraga","tag-east-hants","tag-emfield","tag-peter-moorhouse","tag-sex-offences","tag-supreme-court"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36415\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}