Sex offender sentenced to prison for attacking women in B.C. park

A sex offender has been sentenced to prison for violently attacking two women in Surrey, B.C.

James Reddemann, 38, assaulted the women who were sex workers atasecluded area of Sullivan Heights Park in thefall of 2014.

Court documents said one attack happened in August or September, while the other happened in October. In both cases, he took the women to the park at night.

Reddemann was later arrested and charged with sexual assault, sexual assault with a weapon, assault, uttering threats to cause death or bodily harmand attempting to choke to overcome resistance.Hepleaded guilty to those charges.

Previous charges stemming from an alleged attack against a third woman were dropped when Reddeman entered theguilty plea.

He was sentenced to eight years in prison last month. With credit for time served, he will spend three years and nine months behind bars.

In his reasons for sentencing, the judge said the guilty plea was a mitigating factor.