Kelowna child sex offender released from prison after guilty plea
Child offender released
A notorious child predator had dozens of images consistent with child sexual abuse material on his phone when he was taken into custody by police near his Kelowna home two years ago, Crown counsel said Tuesday.
As such, Graham Daniel Dodge pleaded guilty to accessing child pornography between March 5 and March 11, 2024, and to breaching a probation order by accessing illegal content during that same period.
Crown counsel Juan O’Quinn said Dodge was bound by a probation order in 2024 when police arrested him on suspicion of breaching conditions imposed after his release from prison for sexually assaulting a young person. Officers then searched his cellphone.
“(Police) found upwards of 50 images that fit the definition of Child Sex Abuse Material,” O’Quinn said. “As a result of that he was arrested and taken into custody.”
O’Quinn, who was presenting a joint submission with defence counsel James Pennington, said Dodge had been in custody since he was arrested March 15, 2024, and that is an “inordinate” amount of time for the crimes at hand.
It's an inordinately inadequate amount of time for CSA!
With enhanced time, Dodge was sentenced to one day in jail, after the court credited him with 1,115 days of pre-sentence custody. The effective sentence was therefore approximately three years and 21 days.
Pennington indicated that Dodge was looking forward to returning to the Rutland area condo he owned, and had a plan that would stop him from running into young children who he could victimize as he entered and departed from his home.
Pennington also said that Dodge was planning on meeting with his psychologist upon his release, which was expected late Tuesday.
Dodge has been convicted of several charges spanning over a decade, including sexually assaulting two boys, possessing child pornography, selling alcohol to a minor, and breaching conditions.
Before the most recent incident in March 2024, he was found guilty in 2023 of possession of child sexual abuse material and sexual assault. Upon his arrest in 2020, RCMP found a teen boy inside his Kelowna apartment. He was sentenced to four years and 93 days in jail.
In 2013, he breached his conditions again and was caught approaching boys at the Penticton Public Library. He was sentenced to 15 months in jail.
He was sentenced for the assaults and breaches in 2008 and given nine months in jail and three years of probation. He again breached his conditions by having contact with someone under 18 and was sentenced in 2010 to 14 months in jail plus a two-year probation period.
With all these crimes under his belt, Dodge made headlines also when the provincial government called for both he and and his parents to hand over two properties he’d used to sexually assault children.
B.C.’s director of civil forfeiture said in court documents filed in May 2024 that Dodge’s Kelowna condo and his parent’s Mount Baldy cabin were linked to Dodge’s crimes and should be forfeited to the government.
“Dodge used the condominium and cabin to, among other things, commit sexual assault and sexual interference against persons under the age of 16 years, and to access, possess, produce, and distribute child pornography,” the lawsuit alleged.
Both Dodge and his parents filed responses to the civil forfeiture lawsuit, denying they were used for unlawful activity. The Director of Civil Forfeiture said in a court filing in December 2025 that it was planning on proceeding in the attempt to seize the properties.
The government lawsuit said that Dodge is “registered with the national sex offender registry as a high-risk offender.”
A seemingly appropriate sentence on Vancouver Island for a change
Vancouver Island man sentenced to nine-plus years in child-exploitation case
Port Alberni RCMP say Loki Tchir was sentenced in the city on March 28 on charges including possession of child sexual abuse material and sexual interference of a minor.
The sentence also includes restrictions on Tchir's employment, contact with minors and attendance at public places for 15 years after his release from prison.
Police say they began investigating the case in early 2025 after Tchir, from Tofino, travelled to Port Alberni multiple times to commit the offences.
The investigation involved the seizure of the man's cellphone as well as locating the home address where the offences happened.
Police say the case had a number of "distressing aspects," including the scope of the offences as well as the fact the man gained access to minors through online communications.
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