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Link 3: Pediatrician Explains the Dangers of Transgender Propaganda for Our Children
Monday, 31 October 2022
A Call to Prayer - 31-10-22 > Florida puts a Stop to Gender-Affirming Madness
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Sunday, 30 October 2022
This Week's USA Pervs and Pedos List > LA Accountant gets Life for Videoing Philippine child sex victims; Sex Offender gets 40 Years for videoing 18 m/o; Fla Librarian gets 21 years
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Judge Sentences South Bay Accountant to Life in Federal Prison
for Producing Child Sexual Abuse Material of Filipino Victims
U.S. Attorney’s Office
Central District of California
Monday, October 24, 2022
LOS ANGELES – A South Bay man was sentenced today to life without parole in federal prison after he admitted to producing thousands of sexually explicit images and videos of nearly three dozen children, one of whom was exploited over the course of at least two years and performed sex acts online in exchange for money.
Billy Edward Frederick, 52, of Redondo Beach, was sentenced by United States District Judge Dale S. Fischer, who said that “to say his conduct is despicable is an understatement.”
Judge Fischer added that “life in prison adequately reflects the seriousness of the offense” in which Frederick “targeted” victims in a “part of the world where children are known for being sexually exploited.”
Frederick pleaded guilty in September 2021 to two felony offenses: production of child pornography for transportation into the United States and enticement of a minor to engage in criminal sexual activity.
According to court documents, Frederick obtained and stored in his Google accounts various images and videos depicting child sex abuse material. In messages sent to Frederick, several victims call Frederick “master.” Prosecutors said in a sentencing memorandum that Frederick exploited “young boys in the Philippines in need of money for food and school.”
Frederick admitted to producing more than 5,000 images and videos of child pornography involving at least 35 different children by requesting these children engage in specified sexually explicit activity in exchange for money. Some of the videos and images depicted minor victims under the age of 12 being used for sexual acts.
“Using Google chat to bridge their geographical divide, [Frederick], while living in Los Angeles County, exploited numerous boys who lived in the Philippines,” according to the sentencing memorandum. Frederick’s “years-long conversations with these Philippine boys were not coded; they were explicit and lurid – brimming with details regarding what defendant liked, demanded, and expected from his victims, should they wish to be paid.”
In addition to the life sentence, Judge Fischer ordered Frederick to pay $5,000 to the Justice for Victims of Trafficking Act of 2015; $5,000 to the Amy, Vicky, and Andy Child Pornography Victim Assistance Act of 2018, and $8,000 in restitution to one of the victims.
Homeland Security Investigations investigated this matter.
Assistant United States Attorney Kathy Yu of the Violent and Organized Crime Section prosecuted this case.
Registered Sex Offender Sentenced to 40 years for Transporting
Child Sexual Abuse Material
Department of Justice
Office of Public Affairs
Thursday, October 27, 2022
An Oklahoma man was sentenced today to 40 years in prison for transporting child pornography that he produced of an 18-month-old infant and for being a person required to register as a sex offender who committed a felony offense involving a minor.
Assistant Attorney General Kenneth A. Polite, Jr. of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney Clifford D. Johnson for the Northern District of Indiana made the announcement.
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), along with the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation (OSBI) Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force and the Tulsa Police Department Cyber Crimes Unit, investigated the case.
Trial Attorney Austin M. Berry of the Criminal Division’s Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section and Assistant U.S. Attorneys Emily A. Morgan and Jennifer Chang for the Northern District of Indiana prosecuted the case.
This case is brought as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative to combat the epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse launched in May 2006 by the Department of Justice. Led by U.S. Attorneys’ Offices and the Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section, Project Safe Childhood marshals federal, state, and local resources to better locate, apprehend, and prosecute individuals who exploit children via the internet, as well as to identify and rescue victims. For more information about Project Safe Childhood, please visit http://www.justice.gov/psc.
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Former Putnam County Librarian Sentenced To Over 21 Years In Federal
Prison For Production And Distribution Of Child Sex Abuse Images
Department of Justice
U.S. Attorney’s Office
Middle District of Florida
Wednesday, October 26, 2022
Jacksonville, Florida – Chief U.S. District Judge Timothy J. Corrigan has sentenced Kurt Batucan Sheldon (31, Interlachen) to 21 years and 10 months in federal prison for production and distribution of child sex abuse images. Sheldon was also ordered to serve a life-term of supervised release and register as a sex offender. In addition, the court ordered $13,000 in restitution for the victims of Sheldon’s offenses. Sheldon was arrested on September 4, 2020, and ordered detained during the proceedings in the case. He had pleaded guilty on February 17, 2022.
According to court documents, this case was initiated when parents of a minor female child made a report to the Clay County Sheriff’s Office about sexually explicit messages being sent by an adult to their child on two different social media applications. The adult referred to himself as “K t,” and used the username “tacticfallout.” “K t” originally began communicating with the minor child on a social media application and represented himself as a male, between 25-29 years of age. The minor child told him that she was 15 years old. “K t” told the minor child that his name was “Kurt” and that he lived in Putnam. The child told “Kurt” she lived with her parents and was in school. Their conversation later moved to another social media platform, over which “K t” requested child sex abuse material—images and videos—from the minor child and directed the child on how to take the images and how to pose. Approximately 50 images and/or videos were sent to “K t” at his direction.
Further investigation by the Clay County Sheriff’s Office and Homeland Security Investigations identified Sheldon’s residence as the source of the IP address used by the account, “tacticfallout,” and for other associated accounts.
On September 4, 2020, HSI agents and deputies and detectives from the Putnam County Sheriff’s Office executed a search warrant at Sheldon’s residence. Sheldon admitted there would be child sexual abuse material on his electronic devices and that he was attracted to children. He also admitted to asking girls he met via online applications, who he knew to be underage, to send him nude photographs, including a 15-year-old female. Forensic examination of his devices identified more than a thousand images and several hundred videos depicting child sex abuse.
During the same investigation, HSI also learned of a 2016 St. Johns County Sheriff’s Office investigation involving Sheldon’s IP address and residential address engaging in peer-to-peer file sharing of child sex abuse materials. Law enforcement accessed and downloaded files that contained child sex abuse materials that were later connected to Sheldon. Sheldon also admitted his involvement in this conduct.
“Men who use the anonymity of the internet to prey on the vulnerability and innocence of children are a special kind of evil,” said HSI Jacksonville Assistant Special Agent in Charge K. Jim Phillips. “Through our partnerships with the Clay County, Putnam County and St. Johns County Sheriff’s Offices, we will remain vigilant in targeting these dark web predators, bringing them to justice to face their crimes.”
This case was investigated by Clay County Sheriff’s Office, the Putnam County Sheriff’s Office, the St. Johns County Sheriff’s Office, and Homeland Security Investigations. It was prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Ashley Washington.
It is another case brought as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative launched in May 2006 by the Department of Justice to combat the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse. Led by the United States Attorneys’ Offices and the Criminal Division’s Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section, Project Safe Childhood marshals federal, state, and local resources to locate, apprehend, and prosecute individuals who sexually exploit children, and to identify and rescue victims. For more information about Project Safe Childhood, please visit www.justice.gov/psc.
Putnam Co., Fla
Approaching Sodom > Florida Takes Major Step back from the Edge; Transgender Sex Offenders in UK Prisons
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Florida medical board BANS puberty blockers for minors under the age of 18 — after hearing testimony from 'de-transitioners'
By MANSUR SHAHEEN DEPUTY HEALTH EDITOR FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
PUBLISHED: 14:52 EDT, 28 October 2022
The Florida Board of Medicine has voted to ban 'gender affirming care' for transgender teenagers in the state.
The move will block access to puberty blockers and hormone therapies to minors in order to treat gender dysphoria. Those receiving the drugs for other reasons will be exempt from this decision.
Board members said the decision was made based on the irreversibility of the drugs and the growing number of people choosing to 'detransition'.
It will apply to all teens in the state, even those that are currently undergoing treatment using the drugs.
Arizona has similar restrictions in place already. Alabama, Arkansas and Texas have attempted to enact similar rules but have been held up by the courts.
Dr Joseph Ladapo, the state's surgeon general, requested for the board to establish a standard for care for trans teens earlier this year.
Under Gov Ron DeSantis, Florida has been at the forefront of the trans debate in the US in recent months.
In August, the board voted to adopt an official 'standard of care' in the state that opposes the use of puberty blockers and hormone therapies for trans teens.
The decision made Friday will now be passed on to the full medical board, who are likely to adopt the recommendations.
According to a report released earlier this year by the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), 1.34 per cent of the state's teens aged 13 to 17 years old are trans.
A detransitioner at the Florida hearing said that she is happy that she did not receive surgery and that her gender affirming care led to her developing PTSD, OCD and a suicide attempt
Commenters at the meeting included detransitioners
Advocates for the ban on trans care testified during the meeting, and included detransitioners.
One woman explained that she was diagnosed with PTSD, OCD and even attempted suicide while using testosterone while she was living as a transman.
Since detransitioning, she said her mental health has improved but she still has a disrupted menstrual cycle and other after-effects.
'I'm truly grateful I never got surgery because I'm happily married and 28 weeks pregnant,' one woman said. 'But if I had gotten surgeries that I so desperately wanted as a teenager, that would've stolen this future from me.'
Some have warned that even though a person can detransition, the impact the drugs will have on their hormones will last forever.
Dr Joseph Ladapo (pictured) asked for the medical board to weigh in on the trans issues over summer,
setting up Friday's decision
'The scientific evidence supporting these complex medical interventions is extraordinarily weak,' Dr Ladapo wrote in a June letter.
'...there is great uncertainty about the effects of puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and surgeries in young people with gender dysphoria.
'The current standards set by numerous professional organizations appear to follow a preferred political ideology instead of the highest level of generally accepted medical science.
'Florida must do more to protect children from politics-based medicine. Otherwise, children and adolescents in our state will continue to face a substantial risk of long-term harm.'
Transgender child rapist kept in isolation at men’s jail as
‘too dangerous’ for women’s prison
Michael Hamilton, The Sun
23:43, 29 Oct 2022
A TRANSGENDER child rapist is being kept segregated at a men’s jail — because she is too dangerous for a women’s nick.
Prison chiefs have decided that paedophile Marcia Walker, 48, would pose a risk if she were switched from top security Frankland jail.
Lags at the Co Durham prison are “furious” as they have to be kept in cells for 45 minutes while Walker washes and eats alone.
Walker — once Mark Walker — was jailed for 13 years in 2003 for raping two girls, one aged four, and has served time for bomb hoaxes and assault.
A source said: “There is a lot of anger at the jail but it’s a Catch-22 situation.
“She has to be treated as a woman but cannot be moved to a female prison because she poses a risk.
“And, as she’s legally a woman, she must be kept apart from male inmates.”
Ministry of Justice sources say more than 90 per cent of transgender cons are held in men’s prisons.
The Prison Service said: “Transgender prisoners do not receive special treatment and have access to the same facilities as male prisoners.”
Friday, 28 October 2022
This Week's Catholic Pervs and Paedos List > French Paedo Priest Won't be Extradited; Portuguese Study of CSA in Catholic Church
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France won't extradite retired priest Johannes Rivoire,
accused of sexually abusing Inuit children
Public Prosecution Service of Canada says there's still a 'reasonable' chance
Rivoire can be prosecuted
Amy Tucker · CBC News ·
Posted: Oct 26, 2022 12:07 PM CT |
Johannes Rivoire in Arviat in 1979. (Library and Archives Canada)
France will not extradite a priest facing historical sexual assault charges in Nunavut, but there's still a chance he could be prosecuted in Canada by other means.
A news release Wednesday from the Public Prosecution Service of Canada (PPSC) says French authorities denied the extradition request for Johannes Rivoire on Oct. 14.
The extradition request was made by the federal Department of Justice on behalf of the PPSC.
French authorities said there are two reasons the request is being denied.
The first relates to French law — France can't extradite its own citizens. "France has determined that at the relevant time Mr. Rivoire was a citizen of France," the release said.
The second reason, which also falls under French law, is because "too much time" passed between the events and the charges being laid. That's also the reason French authorities said they could not prosecute Rivoire in France.
Rivoire was charged this past February with one count of indecent assault on a female, who was child at the time of the alleged offence. It happened between January 1974 and December 1979.
Allegations against him date much further back, though — previous charges against him had been outstanding for years but were stayed in 2017.
People in Nunavut have spent nearly two decades pushing for Rivoire to be extradited.
An Inuit delegation travelled to France in September to implore French officials to grant Canada's extradition request. They also confronted the retired priest while there.
Tanya Tungilik, who was part of the delegation and whose father Marius Tungilik had accused Rivoire of sexual abuse, said at the time it was "liberating" to finally tell Rivoire the things she has wanted to say for so long.
In an interview with CBC Wednesday, she called the denied extradition request "a gut punch" but not totally shocking. "I wasn't really surprised," Tungilik said.
She's still hoping that people in Nunavut who allege abuse by Rivoire, especially between 1990 and 1993, come forward. That way she said, it's possible charges could be laid against him.
"Then that will still give us a chance to bring it to court in France within their statute of limitations," Tungilik said. "I'm still hoping for that."
Tungilik said she also wants to see a lawsuit against the Oblates of Mary Immaculate, "or those who aided and abetted the abusers."
Steve Mapsalak, left, Tanya Tungilik and Jesse Tungilik spoke to reporters in Lyon, France, in September about their meeting with Johannes Rivoire. (Juanita Taylor/CBC)
He's accused of sexual abuse of several other people as well who were children at the time, carried out while he worked in Nunavut starting in the 1960s.
Prosecution in Canada could be possible if Rivoire leaves France
Rivoire has repeatedly said he has no intention of coming back to Canada, and has denied the charges of abusing Inuit children.
The news release from the PPSC said "all potential legal recourse" to obtain Rivoire's extradition from France or to have him prosecuted in France have been exhausted.
However, the PPSC said it is working with the RCMP for Interpol to issue a red notice. That would allow for Rivoire to be arrested in any other country. "Therefore, prosecution in Canada remains possible if Johannes Rivoire leaves France," the release said.
Tungilik said she's not overly confident on this plan, especially because she doubts Rivoire will leave the country willingly.
Both the prosecution file and a warrant for Rivoire's arrest remain active.
The PPSC, a national organization responsible for prosecuting offences under federal law, said it has an obligation to continually assess its cases at each stage. In this case, it determined there is still a "reasonable prospect of conviction." It also determined prosecution is in the public interest.
Nunavut
Committee head says Portugal church sex abuse was ‘widespread’
PBS World
Oct 11, 2022 2:07 PM EDT
LISBON, Portugal (AP) — The head of a lay committee looking into historic child sex abuse in the Portuguese Catholic Church said Tuesday the problem in the past had been “widespread” and on some occasions reached “truly endemic” proportions.
Pedro Strecht, a psychiatrist who heads Portugal’s Independent Committee for the Study of Child Abuse in the Catholic Church, said his panel has compiled a list of 424 alleged victims. Before the committee started its work in January, senior church officials had claimed that only a handful of cases had occurred.
The panel, which was created by the Portuguese Bishops Conference, is looking into alleged abuse cases from 1950 to the present involving minors aged two to 17. It is due to publish a report on Jan. 31.
Information obtained so far indicates that “a significant number” of Catholic Church priests and members allegedly have committed sex abuses since 1950, Strecht told a news conference in Lisbon, adding that “the problem not only existed, it also became widespread.”
He said the further back in time his panel went, it found “serious situations that lasted for decades (and) in some places reached truly endemic proportions.”
The victims were both boys and girls, although most were boys, he said.
Some alleged abusers were named by more than one victim, and hundreds of abusers have been identified, Strecht said. The alleged abuse includes indecent exposure, penetration and images of abuse.
The statute of limitations has expired on most of the allegations. Apart from those, 17 complaints have been forwarded to the Portuguese attorney general’s office and another 30 may still be sent, Strecht said.
The panel is not publishing the names of the victims, the identities of the alleged abusers, or the places the abuses allegedly happened. However, its final report will include a separate — and confidential — annex of all the names of church members reported to the committee that will be sent to the Portuguese Bishops Conference and to the police.
Strecht said the panel had no information about any abuses committed by foreign priests.
The committee has interviewed all of Portugal’s bishops. Strecht praised the Portuguese Bishops Conference which, he said, had shown “pioneering courage” in setting up the study.
Thursday, 27 October 2022
This Week's Global Pervs and Paedos List > Quebec Day Cares not safe for Kids; 1st Nations Family Services Disaster
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1 report of child sexual abuse every 2 weeks is reported
in Quebec daycares: documents
Jocelyne Richer
The Canadian Press
Updated Oct. 2, 2022 5:06 p.m. PDT
Published Oct. 2, 2022 8:18 a.m. PDT
A new case every two weeks.
In Quebec, that is the frequency of reports of sexual abuse committed against children entrusted to daycare services, according to documents obtained by The Canadian Press from the Ministry of the Family.
Over the past ten years, nearly 300 defenceless children between the ages of zero and five have had a complaint or report filed about them in a Quebec daycare centre, according to the data collected.
And they may have been abused.
Behind these numbers are vulnerable children who may have fallen through the cracks of the safety net designed to protect them, particularly in family settings, where the majority of reports occur.
The phenomenon seems to be stable, neither increasing nor decreasing, with an average of about 30 cases per year.
Several questions remain unanswered regarding the data.
What action was taken on all the reports? What percentage of them were founded? How many childcare providers (CPEs) lost their jobs and ended up behind bars? How many childcare centres have been forced to close their doors because of sexual assaults that occurred within their walls?
No one in the government has seen fit to collect all the information, from the filing of the report to the closing of the file. All the actors involved, and there are many, operate in silos, surrounding each reported case with the strictest confidentiality.
"The Ministry (of Family) does not hold information related to the status of complaints and reports," said the person responsible for access to information at this ministry by way of response to these queries.
After reviewing the issue in 2017, the Ministry of Health, which oversees the Youth Protection Branch (DPJ), "concluded that the data could not be matched," the Ministry of Health said in an email exchange.
No one in government would comment on the matter.
Family Minister Mathieu Lacombe declined an interview request.
The minister responsible for the DPJ, Lionel Carmant, also declined, as did the national director of youth protection, Catherine Lemay.
Of the total number of people reported, two out of three (65 per cent) were working in a family daycare. These individuals are often the caregiver's spouse, or one of the caregiver's teenage or young adult children.
This begs another question - how many perpetrators were men or teenage boys? I have been begging for years for parents to not allow their children to be cared for by males. Any care home with males in the home is not a fit place for your child. Men and boys have no place in caregiving other people's little children.
The operators of these centres are not above suspicion: during the decade, there were 15 home childcare providers and 6 licensees associated with reports of sexual abuse. In the other cases, it was staff members (educator, janitor, cook, etc.).
The nature of the actions alleged is not documented. Trial records or judgment documents must be used, for example.
As soon as a report is made, a mechanism is set in motion.
All the actors involved (Family Child Care Coordination Offices, DPJ, police, etc.) must apply the government's "multisectoral agreement," a document that describes the intervention procedure and the obligations of each.
The problem is that this agreement is applied in a "variable geometry manner," said executive director of the Association québécoise des centers de la petite enfance (AQCPE) Geneviève Bélisle.
The AQCPE is the organization that oversees and supervises the coordinating offices.
The sharing of information between the various stakeholders, which is "encouraged but not mandatory," is also "variable geometry," especially if the report is not retained, said Bélisle. The result is a "blur" in the application of the protocol.
The Laurent report, written in the wake of the tragic death of the martyred Granby girl in 2019, noted the "lack of communication between the partners" responsible for implementing the agreement, a goal described as "difficult."
Bélisle also insisted in the interview on the importance of better training for the homecare providers to remind them periodically of their obligations in the event of a report, which she considers to be a major shortcoming.
"We can really do better and really more," she said, arguing for mandatory annual training.
Tighter supervision could also help, she said. The coordinating offices only visit family daycares three times a year.
"The follow-up of the application of the multisectoral agreement provides for follow-up mechanisms, both at the national and regional levels, in order to escalate and address challenges and needs with the partners," the Ministry of Health said.
Bélisle believes that the "safety net" has been weakened by Bill 15 sponsored by Minister Carmant. She cited, as an example, the fact that previously a person wanting to become a homecare provider had to provide a certificate attesting to their physical and mental health. This is no longer the case. The deadline for renewing licenses has been extended from three to five years.
70 PER CENT OF APPLICATIONS FOR REVIEW ACCEPTED
The family childcare situation raises the recruitment issue for family childcare providers and the criteria used to ensure that they do not pose a risk to the health or safety of children.
Recruitment itself is a significant issue in the labour shortage context, which may prompt the government to lower the criteria for providing spaces to parents. It is estimated that there are currently 23,000 spaces available for children in family childcare that are left vacant because a caregiver cannot be found.
Particularly in the unregulated childcare community, there is pressure on the government to relax the rules.
Those interested in opening a family childcare centre must demonstrate that there are no "impediments" that make them unfit to care for young children.
The proof of lack of impediment is issued by a police force, for the person in charge, those residing at the same address and his or her employees.
The catch is that the person with an "impediment" can challenge the decision.
Since 2018, the department has received 540 requests for review and the vast majority of people, 380 (70 per cent), have been successful.
An "impediment" can be a criminal or penal act, but not necessarily a major or sexual crime, the department says in an email exchange.
"It could be a youthful mistake (e.g., stealing a car at 18), a lapse in judgment (e.g., driving while impaired) or a more difficult time in a person's life (e.g., shoplifting)," the family ministry said in explaining the decision in many cases to let identified impediments go.
Regarding the current form of impediment anaylsis, "we consider the procedure adequate," said the Ministry of Health.
So, the Ministry of Health is satisfied with a new report of child sexual abuse every other week!
New sex abuse allegations emerge against Weechi-it-te-win
Family Services
Kenneth Jackson
Oct 24, 2022
Content warning: This story contains details of child sex abuse.
Weechi-it-te-win Family Services is being sued by eight former foster children who allege they were sexually abused while in care of the agency, according to lawsuits filed in Kenora, Ont.
The eight separate statements of claim allege the First Nations child welfare agency failed to protect them and, combined, they are seeking $21 million in total damages.
The victim’s ages range of 23 to 46 years old and they are represented by Pace Law firm.
None of the allegations occurring between 1980-2010 have been tested in court.
Seven of the plaintiffs said the sexual abuse happened in the homes Weechi placed them in.
While, a 33-year-old man alleges he was abused by a “social worker” in the 1990s, only to be called a “liar” when he reported it to a supervisor at Weechi and shipped the next day to Minnesota, where the agency has sent children to secure treatment facilities in the past.
Weechi is located in Fort Frances, Ont., a border town across from International Falls, Minn.
The social worker is identified as Harry Kelly, according to the claim filed on April 1, 2021.
“The plaintiff being told, by Harry, that the plaintiff was special, receiving presents from Harry who, after gaining the plaintiff’s trust, sexually assaulted the plaintiff in a vehicle,” the claim alleges.
“Harry touched the plaintiff’s genitals over the plaintiff’s clothes, took the plaintiff’s hand and put it inside his own clothing so that the plaintiff could masturbate Harry. After the assault, Harry told the plaintiff, who was between six and eight years of age at the time of the assault, that the plaintiff ‘was a good kid.'”
Weechi admits that Kelly was working for them, but denies all allegations.
“This defendant states that Harry Kelly is an individual who held multiple positions with this defendant but this defendant denies that there was any material involvement or interactions between Harry Kelly and the plaintiff,” says Weechi in its statement of defence.
APTN reached out to Kelly about the allegations.
“I’ve done no such things to the boy,” he said in a text exchange.
APTN asked why the boy was sent to Minnesota following the allegations, which the lawsuit says were reported to Kelly’s brother, Lawrence Kelly, who was the supervisor of Weechi’s child welfare team at the time in the Ojibways of the Onigaming First Nation.
“Again. I have not done no such thing to him,” Kelly replied. “I’m sorry. I may not be allowed to discuss the clients plan of care.”
APTN said that Kelly must remember the boy’s allegations, as a claim such as that would be hard to forget.
“I didn’t say I forgot about it. I said I have not done no such thing to him. Don’t throw your words into my response ok,” said Kelly.
APTN asked if Weechi investigated and Kelly said to ask the agency.
“Any serious allegations were followed up. I’m sure,” said Kelly.
APTN told Kelly that Weechi said in its statement of defence that he had no interactions with the boy.
“I don’t even know who the boy is,” Kelly replied.
Weechi says in its statement of defence it was unaware of any sexual abuse allegations at the time.
Lawrence Kelly didn’t respond to APTN.
Harry Kelly in an undated photo.
APTN reported earlier this month that Kelly was convicted of sexual interference in 2012 for abusing a 15-year-old girl in care of Weechi who said she was raped by Kelly, according to court records. Kelly, a longtime Weechi employee, was also a band councillor at the time the child was abused.
He was sentenced to three years in prison and is a registered sex offender.
Kelly still has several court orders that he has to follow, including not working with children under the age of 16 in a position of authority.
APTN’s investigation also identified several other men employed by Weechi who were convicted of sexually abusing children in care of the agency, as well as caregivers who have been charged with doing it dating back to 1995.
APTN uncovered that Weechi hired at least three men previously convicted of sex crimes. One still works for the agency – Gilbert Smith, who is paid as an Elder.
APTN’s investigation has sparked a “thorough investigation” by both the federal and provincial governments.
Now these lawsuits increase the number of potential victims.
The man who says he was allegedly abused by Kelly as a young boy claims that he continued to be sexually abused by other people while in the care of Weechi. He never reported the abuse, because he wasn’t believed the first time. He doesn’t name of any of those alleged abusers in the claim.
Documents show that Kelly was also a caregiver for Weechi during this period.
A 32-year-old woman says that while she lived in his home she was “treated like a slave” and forced to do “extensive household chores.”
Kelly told APTN the “slave” allegation isn’t true.
Sisters allege they were sexually abused in caregiver’s home
Weechi also denies the allegations against Kelly as a caregiver in its statement of defence, as well as the woman’s allegations of sexual abuse that she says happened in a separate caregiver’s home.
The woman says that she was repeatedly sexually abused, including being raped, by the teenaged nephews of the caregivers who were sometimes left in charge of the house while the caregivers were away.
She also claims the caregivers beat her.
Weechi says, while it denies the abuse happened, it acted as soon as the allegations surfaced in March, 1996.
“This defendant immediately advised police, relocated the plaintiff, suspended the use of the community care home where the plaintiff had been placed and fully investigated the allegations,” Weechi states.
Weechi says it has no knowledge of abuse happening before that.
This woman’s 33-year-old sister also filed a claim against Weechi for being placed in the same home. She alleges she suffered the same sexual abuse from the same teenagers, as well as physical abuse from the caregivers. That claim was filed on Mar. 10, 2022 and Weechi hasn’t filed a defence.
The teenaged boys were identified by the sisters in court documents, but APTN believes they may have been minors at the of the alleged assaults.
‘Chased with knives’
A 35-year-old man claims he was chased with knives and beaten while in care, as well as “being sexually abused by his foster mother and other children in the home including fondling; being thrown outside and locked out in the winter, being thrown down the stairs by the plaintiff’s foster parents.”
The claim was filed on Feb. 2, 2022 against Weechi and another First Nations child welfare agency in Kenora – Anishinaabe Abinooji Family Services.
Weechi has filed a notice that it intends to defend against the allegations, while Abinooji hasn’t filed anything.
Boy makes collect call to get home
When the next plaintiff was about 11 years old he was sent to live on a farm in Alberta with a man named “Foxy”. His worker from Weechi drove him out there, according to his claim filed on June 15, 2022.
Now 38-years-old, he remembers his room was in the basement and it had no windows.
He also remembers waking up with his pants around his ankles and the foster dad beside him on two occasions.
“The abuse ended after approximately two months, when the plaintiff was able to contact his family by placing a collect call, following which he believes that his family members contacted a lawyer to help the plaintiff get home. The plaintiff was driven to the Edmonton airport where he boarded a flight to travel to his home in Ontario,” the claim alleges.
Weechi hasn’t filed a statement of defence but told the court it intends to fight the allegations.
Uncle accused of forcing child to sleep in his bed
Weechi is also being accused in court of similar neglect by a 23-year-old woman.
She claims that Weechi didn’t properly check the caregiver home as a young child.
She alleges she never had her own bed and alleges she was forced to sleep with the caregivers where she was molested under the sheets.
She also alleges she was denied food.
And love.
“[Weechi] failed to conduct proper home studies consistent with the appropriate standard of care and in accordance with its duties; such an exercise would necessarily have resulted in the plaintiff not being placed in the abusive settings or in the plaintiff being removed from the abusive settings, thereby protecting her from most or all of the abuse to which she was subjected,” the lawsuit alleges.
“It failed to conduct reference checks with respect to the foster families, or if it conducted reference checks, it failed to adequately and properly do so in accordance with accepted and/or reasonable personnel procedure.”
Weechi has filed a notice to defend against the claim. The alleged abuser was the woman’s uncle.
‘A family named Bird’ and ‘a Christian family’
A 37-year-old man said, in his claim filed July 19, 2019, that he came into care at the age of two through Kenora Child and Family Services before he was transferred to Weechi.
He claims to have been sexually abused in three different homes, but Weechi denies the allegations saying in part it never placed him in two of the homes described as the “a family named Bird ” in Fort Frances and the “a Christian family.”
‘The plaintiff was physically, sexually and psychologically’
The last claim against Weechi involves a 46-year-old woman who alleges she was repeatedly raped by two of her uncles while placed in care agreement with her grandmother by Weechi.
This went on to the age of six, according to the claim filed on Sept. 28, 2021.
“Over the course of her stay in the homes into which she was placed by the defendant, the plaintiff was physically, sexually and psychologically abused on many occasions,” the claim alleges.
“The plaintiff became pregnant while in care and gave birth when she was 13 years old. While she was pregnant, [Weechi] took the plaintiff to the home of the biological father of her unborn child. The plaintiff believes that [Weechi] removed the plaintiff from its care at that time.”
The father was another male youth and the plaintiff was sent to live with him and his mother.
The court file didn’t have any defence filed by Weechi in this claim.
APTN continues to investigate claims of sexual abuse in Treaty 3. If you have a story you want to share contact reporter Kenneth Jackson directly at 1-613-325-6073 or by email at kjackson@aptn.ca
Wednesday, 26 October 2022
This Week's Catholic Pervs and Paedos List > Is Cardinal Cupich still hiding paedophile priests? Sex Offender Priest Nailed Again; Ottawa Reviewing Res School Abuse
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Cardinal Blase Cupich is still keeping secrets on child sex abuse by order priests
Cardinal Blase Cupich is now including members of Catholic religious orders in the Archdiocese of Chicago’s online list of clerics deemed to have been credibly accused of child sex abuse. But there are omissions and inconsistencies in what’s been added. Ashlee Rezin / Chicago Sun-Times
By Robert Herguth | Chicago Sun-Times
Oct. 22, 6 a.m. CT
Several years after Cardinal Blase Cupich began cracking down on religious orders to report their sexually abusive clergy members who preyed on minors, the Archdiocese of Chicago has added dozens of order priests to its online posting of predatory clergy.
But Cupich is still keeping secrets on clergy sex abuse of minors, a Chicago Sun-Times investigation has found.
Even though the archdiocese instantly nearly doubled the size of its list of clergy deemed to have been credibly accused of sexually abusing children, there are significant gaps in what’s been added.
Those include the omissions of some clergy members whose orders deemed them to have molested children or who were the subject of lawsuits over predatory sexual acts that church officials settled. Among them:
The Rev. John Baptist Ormechea, a priest from the Passionists order who was deemed by church authorities to have molested children while assigned to Immaculate Conception Church on the Far Northwest Side between the late 1970s and the late 1980s. The order and the archdiocese were both sued over his misconduct and settled cases.
Immaculate Conception Church at Talcott and Harlem avenues north of the Kennedy Expressway and the Rev. John Baptist Ormechea (inset), who was assigned there from the late 1970s to the late 1980s. Robert Herguth / Chicago Sun-Times, Passionists
The Rev. Terence Fitzmaurice, a Benedictine priest accused of molesting children while assigned to a Pilsen parish. Provided to the Chicago Sun-Times
The Rev. Donald McGuire, a now-deceased Jesuit priest who worked at Loyola Academy in Wilmette whose order says the “range of his abuse spanned multiple incidents over multiple years at multiple locations.”
The Rev. Donald McGuire, a serial sex abuser who was part of the Jesuit religious order and served primarily in the Chicago area, including working at Loyola Academy in Wilmette. Wisconsin Department of Corrections Sex Offender Registration
There is much more on this article at WBEZ Chicago
Former priest arrested again, charged with possessing child sex abuse videos
by Rayna McGlynn
Tuesday, October 25th 2022
Timchak | Photo Credit: PSP Megan's Law Website
LUZERNE, LUZERNE CO, (WOLF) — A former priest was arrested Monday after allegedly downloading videos of children engaged in sex acts.
According to the affidavit, 56-year-old Robert Michael Timchak Jr., a registered sex offender, told detectives that he downloaded the videos from websites associated with pornography.
One video Timchak downloaded involved a boy, according to court records.
Officials say Timchak was a priest in the Diocese of Scranton and also served at several churches and parochial schools in the region in the 1990s and 2000s.
He was initially arrested in Pike County where he was an assistant pastor at St. Vincent de Paul, Milford, and St. John Neumann, Lord’s Valley, in 2009.
At the time, State Police at Blooming Grove found child sexual abuse materials on Timchak’s computers he attempted to delete, according to previous reports.
Timchak pled guilty to sexual abuse of children and was sentenced to 6 to 72 months in state prison. He was also ordered to register his address as a sex offender for 10 years. He was released in June 2012.
For his latest arrest, county detectives say they received a tip from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children that was linked to Timchak’s email. The tip alleged that the email was used to download two videos of child sex abuse materials.
When speaking with detectives, Timchak admitted to visiting pornography websites but said his preferred age is 18 years old.
“He stated that he likes ‘young’ but legal,” detectives stated in court records supporting Timchak’s charges.
Timchak was arraigned on four counts of dissemination of photos or films of children involved in sex acts, two counts of criminal use of a communication facility, and a single count of child pornography.
He was jailed at the Luzerne County Correctional Facility for lack of $20,000 bail.
Luzerne Co., Pa
Ottawa reviewing student-on-student abuse cases at St. Anne's residential school
Re-examination recommended by 2021 court-ordered review
Olivia Stefanovich ·
CBC News ·
Posted: Oct 25, 2022 4:00 AM ET |
St. Anne's Indian Residential School, which was run by the Roman Catholic Church in Fort Albany, Ont., was infamous for physical and sexual abuse. (Algoma University/Edmund Metatabwin collection)
Ottawa is finally moving almost a year later on a court's call for a review of 11 cases of student-on-student abuse at one of Canada's most notorious residential schools, Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister Marc Miller says.
The federal government is looking at compensation claims from 11 survivors of the former St. Anne's Indian Residential School, which was run by the Roman Catholic Church from 1906 until 1976 in Fort Albany First Nation along Ontario's James Bay Coast.
"There is, for a very limited group of survivors, a potential of re-examination," Miller told CBC News.
Miller said the government would soon ask the court to appoint another independent official to review the 11 cases and recommend how they should be handled.
Evelyn Korkmaz, who attended St. Anne's from 1969 to 1972, said Miller should tell claimants whether their claims are among the 11 being reviewed.
"He's just putting like a piece of cookie out there for us to grab and say, 'OK, we're going to be satisfied with that,'" Korkmaz said.
"But there's more to this. Somebody needs to hold the government accountable for not complying with court orders. What good are court orders if you disregard them?"
Evelyn Korkmaz attended St. Anne’s Indian Residential School between 1969 and 1972.
(Submitted by Evelyn Korkmaz; Stephanie Jenzer/CBC)
The 11 cases initially were identified by an independent, court-appointed official, who examined 427 St. Anne's cases last year that were heard before the federal government turned over thousands of pages of police and court records to the residential school compensation process in 2014-2015.
For roughly the first seven years of the residential school compensation process, the federal government withheld records from an Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) investigation in the 1990s into historical abuse at St. Anne's.
The court-appointed official released a report in December 2021 concluding that the outcome of the 11 compensation cases, which dealt with student-on-student abuse, could have been affected by the information in those withheld records.
Miller 'open' to meeting with St. Anne's survivors again
The issue flared up in question period on Monday when NDP MP Charlie Angus — whose riding of Timmins–James Bay includes the former St. Anne's institution — demanded that Miller "look" at him as he pressed for the government to enter into mediation with survivors.
Miller responded by saying he's asked his department to re-examine the 11 cases.
The Supreme Court of Canada rejected an appeal from St. Anne's survivors last Thursday in the years-long legal battle over Ottawa withholding thousands of OPP documents containing critical evidence from compensation claim hearings.
Speaker Anthony Rota calls out NDP MP Charlie Angus for demanding that Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister Marc Miller look at him during an exchange about St. Anne's residential school survivors.
Miller said the high court's decision clears the way for the government to complete the review of the 11 outstanding cases.
"The whole compensation process, no matter how you look at it, doesn't fully replace or compensate people for the immeasurable harm that they suffered," Miller said.
"While the particular legal recourse has been exhausted, we'll always be there."
Miller also said he had a "frank" conversation with some St. Anne's survivors over Zoom a few months before they filed their leave to appeal with the top court. He said his "door is always open" for a follow-up meeting.
"It really is up to them," he said.
Edmund Metatawabin, another St. Anne's survivor, called the review a "first step" toward acknowledging the damage that survivors of this particular abuse endured.
"The young people suffered abuse and, through time, they were taught this behaviour," Metatawabin said.
"Minister Miller is acknowledging the fact that this has happened in residential school."
The court-ordered report that recommended the federal government review those 11 case files was released by Ontario Superior Court Justice Paul Perell, one of nine judges who oversaw the residential school settlement agreement.
Perell appointed retired justice Ian Pitfield to conduct the review. It concluded that Ottawa's refusal to release OPP and court documents for the first seven months of the residential school compensation process probably did not change the outcome for most of the 427 survivors.
Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister Marc Miller said he is open to meeting with survivors of the former St. Anne's Indian Residential School. (Sean Kilpatrick/Canadian Press)
But Pitfield concluded a review would make a difference for those 11 cases involving allegations of student-on-student abuse.
"There is little or nothing to indicate that on the claims where evidence of knowledge was required to prove a student-on-student assault claim, either the claimant or counsel had attempted to work with Canada to develop admissions," Pitfield's 2021 report said.
"I recommend that the claims that were dismissed because of lack of knowledge should be reviewed against any resulting admissions and appropriate awards made where the student-on-student abuse was not subsumed by other more serious claims of sexual abuse."
Survivors seeking compensation for student-on-student abuse have to show that school officials knew or should have known that abuse was taking place.
Edmund Metatawabin, a survivor of St. Anne's Indian Residential School, called the review a first step to recognizing the pain that survivors of student-on-student abuse endured. (Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press)
The OPP records from that 1990s investigation showed that abuse was rampant at St. Anne's.
"The government is not transparent," Korkmaz said.
"We have to hold them accountable."
Islam - Current Day > Islamic Insanity in a Kansas Mother; Canadian ISIS Women to Return to Canada, both arrested on arrival
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Children of US woman who led Isis female battalion
describe sex abuse at her hands
Allison Fluke-Ekren’s daughter and son detail how they were beaten and molested;
other relatives say she laughed as she spoke of trying to drown her own brother
US prosecutors are seeking a maximum 20-year sentence for the Kansas native, who they say
‘brainwashed young girls and trained them to kill’ for Islamic State
Associated Press
Published: 6:33am, 25 Oct, 2022
Allison Fluke-Ekren is seen in an undated photo. Photo: Alexandria Sheriff’s Office via AP
A Kansas native convicted of leading an all-female battalion of the Islamic State group had a long history of monstrous behaviour that included sexual and physical abuse of her own children, family members said in court filings.
Prosecutors cited the abuse allegations in seeking a maximum 20-year sentence for Allison Fluke-Ekren, 42, when she is sentenced November 1 for providing material support to the Islamic State group.
“Allison Fluke-Ekren brainwashed young girls and trained them to kill. She carved a path of terror, plunging her own children into unfathomable depths of cruelty by physically, psychologically, emotionally, and sexually abusing them,” First Assistant US Attorney Raj Parekh wrote in a sentencing memo spelling out the allegations Fluke-Ekren’s own children and parents have made against her.
Fluke-Ekren pleaded guilty to terrorism charges after she admitted that she led the Khatiba Nusaybah, an all-female battalion of Islamic State, in which roughly 100 women and girls – some as young as 10 years old – learned how to use automatic weapons and detonate grenades and suicide belts.
Parekh’s sentencing memo spells out how Fluke-Ekren went from a childhood on an 81-acre farm in Overbrook, Kansas, to an Islamic State leader, travelling from Kansas to Egypt to Libya and then to Islamic State-controlled territory in Syria. Along the way she had 12 children and five different husbands, several of whom were killed in fighting.
Through all the years, family and acquaintances of Fluke-Ekren portrayed her as the driving force who pushed her second husband into radicalisation and convinced him to take her and the children to Egypt.
Her plans for an all-female battalion were ignored and rejected by other terrorist groups like Jabhat al-Nusra, and only Islamic State finally acquiesced to her idea, prosecutors said.
Fluke-Ekren’s parents describe her as manipulative and difficult from the start. Family members describe how she would laughingly tell the story of how she tried to drown her brother in an icy lake as children.
Perhaps most disturbing in a laundry list of disturbing reports are allegations from two of her children that she engaged in sexual abuse of her kids.
“My mother would beat my body, leaving my muscles cramping in agony. [She] would then go to her room and masturbate over the fact that she beat me. I could hear her from the other room,” one of Fluke-Ekren’s daughters, now an adult, wrote in a letter to the court. She is expected to testify at Fluke-Ekren’s sentencing hearing.
Isis militants in Tel Abyad, northeast Syria, in 2015. File photo: AP
Fluke-Ekren’s oldest child, a son, also says he was molested.
“My mother is a monster who enjoys torturing children for sexual pleasure,” he wrote in his own letter to the court.
It is unclear to what extent the abuse allegations will affect the sentence imposed by US District Judge Leonie Brinkema because they are not directly related to the terrorism crimes. The daughter will be allowed to testify at the sentencing hearing because she was a victim of the terrorism – her mother enrolled her in the Khatiba Nusaybah as a child. The son is not expected to testify.
Fluke-Ekren, for her part, is denying many of the abuse allegations. She has complained that she has an inadequate opportunity to refute her family’s statements.
Fluke-Ekren “is shocked and saddened by these allegations but acknowledges Witness-1 [her daughter] experienced trauma in Syria,” defence lawyer Joseph King wrote in his sentencing memo, which seeks a sentence below 20 years. “She cannot undo the pain that she caused in taking Witness-1 to Syria.”
Her son said Fluke-Ekren has a long history of denying abuse and people choosing to believe her over her children. “I know her and I know she wants to lie her way out of this, to get a slap on the wrist and try to use a sob story to once again get power and access to victims,” the son wrote.
Other allegations included in prosecutors sentencing memo:
She urged a woman to commit a suicide bombing. When the woman said she could no longer carry out an attack because she was pregnant, Fluke-Ekren took in the child after his birth so the woman could go forward with the attack.
She told others that her oldest son was born after she was raped by an American soldier as a way to ingratiate herself inside the terrorist groups where she sought to increase her status.
She forced her 13-year-old daughter to marry an Islamic State fighter.
In Libya, she sought to establish a school for girls in which she showed young girls videos of Iraqi women being raped by American soldiers. “She would tell us that if we didn’t kill the ‘kuffar’ [non-believer] that we would be raped,” the daughter wrote in court papers about the experience.
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At least 2 Canadian women and their children repatriated
from ISIS detention camp
Ashley Burke, Margaret Evans, Stephanie Jenzer ·
CBC News · Posted: Oct 25, 2022 11:33 AM ET |
A source with direct knowledge of the file said they received information that Canadian Kimberly Polman is out of the camp and her tent has been taken down. (The Return: Life After ISIS)
At least two Canadian women have left a detention camp in Syria holding ISIS fighters and their family members, CBC News has learned.
The women left the al-Roj camp in northeastern Syria headed for northern Iraq on Tuesday morning with an unknown number of children, according to multiple sources.
The expectation is that the women and children will be repatriated to Canada, the sources said.
A source with direct knowledge of the file said they've learned that Canadian Kimberly Polman is out of the camp and her tent has been taken down. A second source said they also received information that Polman has left the camp.
Polman, who was featured in the documentary "The Return: Life after ISIS," said she was in a "terrible place" when she was found online by the ISIS member who later became her husband.
When Kimberly Polman's children grew up, she found herself alone. She met an ISIS member online and he said, "Come where you're actually loved, where you're actually needed."
Canada's position has been that, for security reasons, it will not send consular assistance to meet these women, even though a number of other western countries have done so.
The Canadian government's involvement in this ongoing repatriation effort is not clear. CBC News has asked the federal government for confirmation of the repatriation.
CBC News asked Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino about the government's involvement. "We don't talk about any individual case," he replied.
"We're always mindful of making sure that we're protecting the safety and security of Canadians."
U.S. diplomat Peter Galbraith helped to free a 4-year-old Canadian girl in March 2021 and called on Canada to repatriate all of the children still stranded there.
Months later, the Canadian government issued an emergency passport to the mother of the 4-year-old so she could return home to Canada and reunite with her daughter.
Global Affairs Canada said at the time that "given the security situation on the ground, the Government of Canada's ability to provide any kind of consular assistance in Syria remains extremely limited."
But the department said consular officials were "actively engaged with Syrian Kurdish authorities to seek information on Canadians in their custody."
As word spreads in the al-Roj Syrian detention camp for families of ISIS fighters that a four-year-old Canadian girl was freed, other mothers grapple with sending their own children to safety. Some say they couldn't survive without them, while others beg Canada to bring them to safety.
According to a Human Rights Watch estimate in March 2021, at least 23 Canadian children — most of them under the age of six — remained in detention camps in Syria at the time.
Many are living in al-Roj and al-Hol, where hundreds of adults and children have died from the fighting in the region or from a lack of medical care or unsanitary conditions, the group said.
Meanwhile, there has been a development in an ongoing federal court case related to the matter, according to a court document obtained by CBC News.
Ottawa lawyer Lawrence Greenspon is representing 23 men, women and children who are Canadians and are being held in ISIS detention camps in northeastern Syria. His original case was filed in Federal Court in 2020 on behalf of a five-year-old Canadian girl who was reunited with relatives in Canada later that year after her family was killed in an air strike. That case has now grown to represent others still in ISIS detention camps.
Greenspon's court application said the Autonomous Administration of Northeast Syria (AANES) has agreed that if the Canadian government makes an official request for repatriation, AANES will make it happen.
Greenspon said he has been trying to get the Canadian government to move forward with that official request.
The Federal Court has now adjourned hearings on the matter that were supposed to take place on Nov. 2 and 3.
Other countries have already moved forward and repatriated their citizens to prosecute them at home.
France repatriated 40 children and 15 women from Kurdish-run camps in northeastern Syria last week. Australia's government has said it's preparing to repatriate Australian women and children of Islamic State fighters from detention camps.
As of last year, Kazakhstan has repatriated more than 600 of its citizens, mostly women and children, along with some suspected ISIS fighters. Finland freed six children and two mothers last year.
The Belgian government says it plans to repatriate dozens of children and is considering accepting some women with children on a case-by-case basis.
RCMP arrest two women after they arrive in Canada from Syrian camps
By Stewart Bell Global News
Posted October 26, 2022 7:48 am
Updated October 26, 2022 2:02 pm
Two Canadians captured in Syria during the fight against the so-called Islamic State were arrested by the RCMP on Tuesday night after their flight landed in Montreal.
The women are the first the Canadian government has brought home from detention camps in northeast Syria for foreign ISIS members and their families.
Omaima Chouay, 27, was charged with four terrorism offences, including leaving Canada to participate in the activity of a terrorist group.
“According to the investigation, Ms. Chouay allegedly travelled to Syria and Iraq to join the Islamic State terrorist group,” RCMP Insp. David Beaudoin told reporters.
She is the first Canadian captured by U.S.-backed Kurdish fighters to face charges in Canada. She was to appear in court Wednesday in Montreal.
A second Canadian, Kimberly Polman, was also arrested but not charged. Instead, RCMP are seeking a terrorism peace bond against her.
A copy of the peace bond application obtained by Global News alleges that police have reasonable grounds to believe Polman “may commit a terrorism offence.”
It asked the court to impose restrictions on her for 12 months.
Her lawyer Lawrence Greenspon said Polman was expected to be released after signing a recognizance and she would then return to Abbotsford, B.C.
Lovely, my home town!
A Canadian government delegation met with officials in rebel-held northeast Syria on Tuesday before the two women were handed over into their custody. Chouay’s two children were also brought back to Canada.
There is more on this story at Global News.
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