B.C.'s highest court on Tuesday dismissed the sentence appeal for sex tourist Kenneth Robert Klassen.
The international art dealer and divorced Burnaby father of three received an 11-year jail term after pleading guilty to sex offences against underage girls in Cambodia and Colombia.
On appeal, his lawyer argued that the sentence, the longest jail term for a sex-tourism case in Canada, was too long and asked that it be reduced to seven years.
But in a ruling released Tuesday, the B.C. Court of Appeal rejected those arguments.
Klassen pleaded guilty to six counts of invitation to sexual touching involving girls under the age of 14 in Colombia, with the offences occurring between December 1998 and March 2002.
He also pleaded guilty to eight counts of invitation to sexual touching involving girls under the age of 14 in Cambodia in August 2001 and to one count of importation of child pornography.
The case began when customs officials seized a suspicious package from the Philippines that Klassen had mailed to himself. The package contained commercial child pornography.
