Faces of a Monster: Six years prison for Abbotsford woman who sexually assaulted autistic girl, shared videos on Pornhub
Siobhan Kirby originally faced 13 charges, including arranging sexual offence against child, making child porn, arranging sex, trafficking a young person for sexual purpose
April 29, 2026
Warning: This story includes disturbing details of sexual abuse of a minor.
The depravity is hard to fathom for anyone who hears what Siobhan Maureen Kirby did to an underage autistic girl, inviting others to engage in sex acts with her, filming the illegal behaviour, and sharing it on the online pornography video-sharing site Pornhub.
“These were highly intrusive sexual acts,” Crown counsel Kevin Gillespie told the court at Kirby’s sentencing hearing in Abbotsford provincial court on Wednesday (April 29, 2026).
“They escalated over time, and can be considered a significant violation of the victim's personal and sexual integrity.”
Kirby originally faced 13 charges, including: making or publishing child sex abuse material, arranging a sexual offence against child, trafficking a young person for sexual purpose, touching a young person for sexual purpose, arranging/agreeing on sexual offence against child, and sexual assault.
Gillespie and Kirby’s lawyer Chris Terepocki came to the sentencing hearing with a joint submission of six years prison with Kirby pleading guilty to three of the charges.
The victim cannot be identified due to a publication ban, but Something Worth Hearing has been in contact with her mother who is unhappy by the light sentence the judge agreed to.
“It’s been a long road and we are glad it’s over, but we are extremely disappointed that her sentence is only six years,” she said Wednesday.
Adding further insult to injury was the fact that Crown counsel and the judge agreed to proceed even though Kirby was not brought to court from pretrial custody and was able to watch by video to avoid facing her victim and her family.
“We were all pretty upset she wasn’t there,” the victim’s mother said. “I wanted her to have to look at [my daughter] and me while we read our victim impact statements.”
A video appearance means the accused appears on a small TV screen in some location in the courtroom but those in the courtroom are lucky to see the offender very clearly.
“As far as we could tell it looked like she had the same scowl on her face and her arms crossed most of the time just as she had every other time we saw her on the screen at all previous court appearances.”
Did she apologize? No.
“Her lawyer said she was open to writing an apology, but my thought is, if she really wanted to write one, she would have,” the mother said.
Terepocki told the court that his client was relying on him in that regard.
“I’m advising the court on behalf of my client to express remorse,” he said.
But Siobhan Kirby never apologized. She never expressed remorse. She expressed zero accountability to her victim, and even denied she did what she did by uploading child porn that she made online.
Victim impact statements
While Kirby’s absence in the courtroom was obviously a miscarriage of justice to any reasonable person, there is no law that required it.
Under Section 650(1) of the Criminal Code an accused is required to be present during the entirety of their trial either in person or, if authorized, by video. A sentencing hearing is not part of a “trial” per se and if all parties agree, the offender can appear by way of video link.
While there is an obvious desire by victims to face their offenders, something that is entirely reasonable, it is not guaranteed. The Canadian Victims Bill of Rights gives victims the right to present a victim impact statement, but there is no requirement the offender be present.
Both the victim and her mother did read victim impact statements into the record.
“The last time I saw the offender was two and a half years ago and a day has not has gone by since that I have not thought of what happened,” the victim said. “I often feel unsafe even in places where I should feel safe such as in my home and around my family.”
She said she has panic attacks and the offences make her feel unsafe around anyone so she isolates herself.
“My perception of the World has changed, which further affects my ability to connect with others.”
Then her mother read a victim impact statement, first pointing out that her daughter was only 16 when the abuses began. Because of her autism, she is particularly trusting and vulnerable to people like Kirby.
“For almost a year, the offender groomed and sexually exploited my daughter. She lives with an overwhelming sense of fear and anxiety and has become very withdrawn, rarely leaving her bedroom….
“Each day, I carry the grief of knowing that she was a victim of such serious harm.”
Not just viewing child porn, making it
“I would characterize it [as being] a relatively high degree of planning exhibited by the offender,” Gillespie told the court as he outlined aggravating factors in sentencing. “First by repeatedly filming the sexual abuse [and] posting it on Pornhub. She had an account on Pornhub. She was set up to receive payments.”
The court heard that there were times when Kirby persisted in the sexual activity with the young victim even when the girl overtly indicated she didn’t want to participate. On at least one occasion she did it while the girl was sleeping.
In considering aggravating circumstances in sentencing, Gillespie pointed to “the highly explicit nature of the child pornography” and the fact that the victim’s face is “clearly distinguishable” in some of the videos.
Kirby groomed and exploited the victim’s vulnerability, her loneliness and need for connection and formed a “trauma bond” the court heard.
Gillespie also pointed to the insidious nature of child porn among the pedophiles who share it online.
The Canadian-based sex-video-sharing site Pornhub apparently took down the many videos with the victim, but that doesn’t mean they are gone.
“The dangers of child porn goes beyond the initial actions of the offender,” Gillespie said. “It can stay there for years and years. There’s not much you can do about.
“These videos are still out there… and presumably they will be out there forever.”
Cue the schadenfreude
A “reasonable” person – to use the term used by the criminal justice system – probably feels that if one commits horrific sex acts on a vulnerable autistic girl, films and shares that child pornography on Pornhub for millions of people to see and makes money off it, people might get upset. Maybe that offender shouldn’t be surprised about the consequences given the open-court principle in a democracy.
While Kirby was absent at her own sentencing hearing, her lawyer told the judge about the non-specific “collateral consequences” the 34-year-old child sex offender has apparently suffered in pretrial custody in Maple Ridge as a result of the media exposure about the case.
“As well as being targeted at Alouette Correctional Centre for Women… a number of individuals – I suspect, due to the media reporting on this – became aware of Miss Kirby’s status, targeted her,” Terepocki said. “Again, I suspect people in room say, good, you get what you deserve. But your Honour, our correctional facilities are designed to keep all offenders safe, especially on remand centres where the presumption of innocence still remains. So that's a significant collateral consequence I'm asking the court to consider.”
Kirby was not sentenced on Wednesday. While the judge put the decision over to another date, he did tell counsel he was agreeing to the joint submission of six years in prison. Kirby will get at least 425 days in 1.5-to-one credit for time served.
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