The Court found DAL to be a high risk serious offender under s 7(1) of the HRSO Act and made a two-year supervision order, holding that the removal of supervision order supports — particularly the ability to monitor continued use of anti-libidinal medication (sertraline) and mental health — would result in an unacceptable risk of committing a serious sexual offence. Where two experts assessed risk at different levels (high versus below average/low-to-moderate), the Court declined to simply prefer one expert over the other and instead made its own assessment of moderate risk, informed by the totality of the evidence. The Court held that the respondent's own expressed lack of confidence in managing deviant sexual interests without the supervision order's supports was a telling factor, and that reporting obligations under the CPOR Act alone were insufficient to ensure adequate community protection in the circumstances.
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