A six-month sentence handed to a man who molested his 10-year-old son's female friend during a sleepover drew outrage from the victim's father yesterday.

The 10-year-old girl's father says he wasn't consulted about the plea bargain which saw the child molester plead guilty to a single count of sexual interference and two other sex charges dropped.

Justice Ann Alder said little about the joint Crown and defence position which included two years of probation, an order that the guilty man report to Canada's national sex offender registry and be barred from owning a firearm for 10 years.

"Our community will not tolerate this type of activity" Alder said yesterday. She said children should not have to worry about going over to a friend's house and the possibility one of their friend's parents might molest them.

She ordered the molester to submit a DNA sample to the National DNA Databank and barred him from going to parks and other places frequented by children for seven years. She also ordered him to have no contact with the little girl.

An agreed statement of facts read into court said the girl reported that sometimes during sleepovers at her friend's house her friend's father would approach her in the middle of the night as she was sleeping on the couch.

Court heard the girl told authorities the man had fondled her vagina and forced her to perform sexual acts. The girl also said that on one occasion the man forced his son to videotape this, but the son denied that when he was interviewed by the Children's Aid Society.

While the boy's father initially denied to police anything had happened, he later checked himself into the Royal Ottawa Hospital complaining that he was suicidal and told medical staff he had sexually touched the girl. After he was released from the hospital, he contacted Ottawa police and was arrested.

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