Preeceville, Sask., man sentenced to 10 years in prison for sexual assault

A 21-year-old Preeceville, Sask. Man was sentenced to 10 years in prison for breaking into a home and sexually assaulting a woman while armed with a gun in 2017.

Shawn Pasiechnik was sentenced in a Yorkton courtroom this week after pleading guilty to those charges. He also pleaded guilty to pointing a firearm and committing an indictable offense while masking his face.

Pasiechnik had no criminal record before this crime.

According to a police statement at the time, the attack occurred around 3:30 a.m. CST on December 18, 2017. A masked man wearing latex gloves entered a Preeceville home and sexually assaulted a woman while armed with a firearm.

At one point he taped the victim’s eyes shut. The victim’s child was in the house at the time of the attack.

Pasiechnik was the second person charged in the case. The first person was acquitted after DNA results cleared them of any involvement and all criminal charges were dropped.

In the hours following the attack, the victim identified the perpetrator as a man with whom she had previously had an intimate relationship. She told police she was 98 percent positive based on the attacker’s voice, body and private parts.

Devin Bileski, then 25, was arrested and spent a month in the Regina Correctional Center before eventually being released on bail and ultimately cleared of any involvement.