A 21-year-old Toronto man who admitted he sexually assaulted a 13-year-old girl he met on the Internet was spared a criminal record yesterday. Justice William Babe gave Payam Daneshvar a conditional discharge -- meaning he'll have no criminal conviction -- but ordered him to perform 75 hours of community service and serve 18 months of probation after he pleaded guilty to sexual interference.
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Last September, Daneshvar chatted online with the victim as she accessed a chat room called "teenchat.com" on a private school computer, Crown attorney Mary-Anne Mackett said in reading an agreed statement of facts.
He learned she was 13 years old and asked her if she'd like to fellate him and if she'd consider dating him, even though he's 19, Mackett said.
Daneshvar obtained her cellphone number, which he phoned to continue their explicit chat.
The next day he unexpectedly showed up at her school, met her and her friend. Once he was alone with her, he pushed her into a washroom and fondled her. She reported it two weeks later.
