Canadian Creeps > Sudbury man may be named 'dangerous offender' again; Calgary man arrested for molesting 3 girls, maybe more

 

Crown looks to have Sudbury man deemed a dangerous offender for a second time

Potentially deemed a dangerous offender for the second time, Michael Tomasik, 44, will face a case conference with the judge before a 10-day hearing on his latest charges related to child sexual abuse material

Jenny Lamothe
about 9 hours ago

Jenny Lamothe / Sudbury.com

A Sudbury man facing an indefinite sentence for crimes involving child sexual abuse material will soon hear the Crown’s application to have him considered a dangerous offender for the second time.

Michael Tomasik pleaded guilty March 20, 2025, to making child pornography (written), distribution of child pornography and breaching a supervision order. The crimes were committed while Tomasik was under a 10-year long-term supervision order, set to extend from 2020 to 2030.

Because of that, the Crown has taken steps to have Tomasik declared a dangerous offender a second time, and rather than a long-term supervision order, he could be facing an indefinite sentence in custody.

On March 30, Tomasik appeared virtually from Central North Corrections Centre before Justice Graham Jenner. His attorney, George Fournier, appeared in Sudbury alongside Crown Attorney Alana Jay and high-risk offenders Crown counsel Kenrick Abbott.

Potentially deemed a dangerous offender for the second time, Michael Tomasik, 44, will face a case conference with the judge before a 10-day hearing on his latest charges related to child sexual abuse material. Police handout

In January, Abbott filed with the court a pre-sentence report and psychiatric report, both of which were sealed by judges order. The March 30 court appearance saw the Crown file the “Attorney General’s consent and direction,” said Abbott, and request both a case conference with Jenner, Tomasik and all counsel, as well as set aside 10 days of hearings to hear the dangerous-offender application itself.

The Crown prosecution manual states the designation needs Auditor General approval and requires prosecutors to assess offenders who pose an ongoing risk to the safety of the public, i.e. are they likely to reoffend and would it cause real harm to the community.

After being declared a dangerous offender by a court, “the offender shall receive an indeterminate prison sentence, unless the court finds that a less severe measure will adequately protect the public.”

Tomasik pleaded guilty in 2025 after an agreed statement of facts was read in the record, stating Tomasik had violated his long-term order by possessing an “internet-accessing phone,” which was found to contain written claims involving the sexual abuse of children.

The statement of facts noted there is no independent evidence that Tomasik’s written claims of abuse against several children detail actual abuse he committed.

However, he did detail in writing the sexual abuse of a one-month-old girl, a five-year-old child and a three-year-old child. These claims were made in writing to a woman he connected with through an online dating site and with whom he tried to arrange an opportunity to abuse children together.

The woman’s identity is covered by a publication ban and she is not facing charges.

You can find the full story on the 2024 charges here. (This story also includes extremely graphic testimony about child sexual abuse that some readers may find disturbing or upsetting.)

Tomasik has a long history with the courts. It was in 2008 that Tomasik, then 27, was convicted of child luring and child pornography charges after he engaged in online conversations with a London, Ont., police officer who was posing as a 12-year-old girl.

Then in 2016, Tomasik was found guilty of trying to convince a sex worker to abduct a child so he could commit sexual assault. Instead, the sex worker strung him along until she had enough evidence from his text messages to alert police. Tomasik was also found guilty of child pornography charges at the time.

This conviction led to the dangerous offender designation in 2017.

Counsel, the judge and Tomasik will be back in court for the case conference on April 17 at 9 a.m. and 10 days in court for the application will be set, should they be required.

This creep should never see daylight again!

Calgary man arrested for alleged child sex offences, victims in Morinville, Red Deer

A 23-year-old Calgary man and former youth sports coach is facing 21 criminal charges after an extensive investigation into the luring and sexual exploitation of children.

Jessica Campbell
a day ago

Calgary resident, Malik Buccini-Small, 23, has been arrested for child luring and extortion offences.

A 23-year-old Calgary man is facing 21 criminal charges related to child luring and sexual offences after three victims came forward to police.

The Alberta Law Enforcement Response Teams (ALERT) Internet Child Exploitation (ICE) unit arrested Malik Buccini-Small on March 17 following an extensive investigation involving the Calgary Police Service, Red Deer RCMP and Morinville RCMP.

According to a March 24 press release, police said that all three cases alleged that the suspect lured young girls through social media apps and made threats or demands for sexual content. In one case, investigators say a victim called 911 because the victim felt threatened and in danger.

Victims have been identified in Morinville and Red Deer and range in age from seven to 15.

“Our priority is to protect children and help those that have been victimized. We have digital evidence that points to other victims and we are hoping they can come forward and share their information with police,” said Const. Mackenzie Jordan, with ALERT’s ICE unit.

Buccini-Small is believed to have used the usernames “iggypup” or “wakanda4ever”, and aliases “MJ” or “007".

At the time of his arrest, Buccini-Small was also coaching youth sports and working as an assistant coach with a girls hockey team in Calgary.

The charges stem from the three identified victims. Police said there is preliminary evidence suggesting there could be additional victims.

Buccini-Small has been charged with multiple offences including:

• Child luring
• Invitation to sexual touching
• Extortion
• Uttering threats
• Obtain sexual services for consideration
• Making sexually explicit materials available to a child
• Making child sexual abuse materials
• Distributing child sexual abuse materials
• Possessing child sexual abuse materials
• Accessing child sexual abuse materials

Buccini-Small is scheduled to appear in the Calgary Court of Justice on Thursday, March 26 for a bail hearing.

More to come.

Kids and Drugs > B.C. Drug addict kills son and injures everyone else in his family

 

B.C. dad sentenced for killing 7-year-old son

in car crash while driving high on meth

By Amy Judd  Global News

Posted November 8, 2024 6:16 pm

 2 min read

A 49-year-old B.C. man has been sentenced to six years in jail and banned from driving for 35 years for crashing his car while driving high on methamphetamine, killing his seven-year-old son and injuring other members of his family.

According to a ruling by Provincial Court Judge Ted Gouge, Matthew Darlington ingested methamphetamine at about 7 p.m. on Sept. 6 while returning to Vancouver Island from Vancouver. He also smoked cannabis after arriving on Vancouver Island at about 11 p.m.

Just before 2 a.m. on Sept. 7, the car Darlington was driving left the highway near Sooke and crashed into a tree. His wife was in the passenger seat and their three children, ages seven, eight and 10 were in the rear seat.

The court ruling said all of the occupants were injured and the seven-year-old died of his injuries in hospital at 6:40 a.m. on Sept. 7.

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“Mr. Darlington has no memory of the crash, and appears to have been unconscious at the time,” Gouge wrote in his ruling.

“He admits that his ability to drive was impaired by the drugs which he had consumed.  Counsel agrees that users of methamphetamine often become drowsy when the stimulative effects of the drug begin to recede.”

Darlington has a criminal record, which includes convictions for acts of violence and threats of violence. He was previously convicted of driving while prohibited eight times between 2011 and 2019, and again in 2022. He was also under a driving prohibition at the time of the 2021 fatal crash, according to Gouge’s ruling.

“Mr. Darlington’s disdain for court orders is also demonstrated by his convictions for breaches of recognizances of bail and probation orders, twice in 2013, once in 2015, twice in 2017, and twice in 2018,” Gouge continued.

What a shame that there was nothing prosecutors or judges could do to bring this man to his senses. Canadian laws need to be tweaked to where they actually show some concern for the victims and potential victims of the madness of men - almost always women and children. 

Children should be removed from families where one parent is hooked on hard drugs.

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“His disobedience of past driving prohibitions demonstrates that he will probably continue to drive, no matter what order I make.  His lengthy and serious driving history demonstrates that, when driving, he puts others at constant risk.  As a consequence, the only way in which I can protect the public from him is to order his incarceration.”

Gouge also wrote that Darlington was not a good role model for his surviving children. “I do not believe that any contribution which he can make to his children’s upbringing could outweigh the need to protect the public, including his children, from the risk which he will pose to public safety if he is not in custody.”

Gouge’s sentence came in at the top end of the Crown’s request for a sentence of five to six years. He also more than doubled the Crown’s recommendation for a 15-year driving ban, calling it “manifestly insufficient.”

“Mr. Darlington should never again drive a motor vehicle,” Gouge wrote.

Another source stated that Judge Gouge chastised the Crown for not asking for a stronger sentence. The judge wanted to give him 8 years but couldn't exceed the Crown's recommendation by that much.

Indonesia To Use Chemical Castration to Punish Pedophiles: Attorney General

   Neil Bantleman, Canadian teacher in Indonesian prison for child sex abuse

Indonesia's president will soon sign a decree authorizing the use of chemical castration to punish pedophiles, the attorney general said, following a string of headline-grabbing child sex crimes.

Indonesia will join a small group of nations that allows such punishment, including Poland, Russia, and Estonia, as well as some U.S. states. In 2011, South Korea became the first Asian country to use chemical castration as a punishment.

"We are very concerned about child molestation abuse cases. This phenomenon has reached extraordinary levels," Attorney General H.M. Prasetyo told reporters after a cabinet meeting late on Tuesday.

"It has been agreed that there will be additional punishment in order to make people think a thousand times before doing this," he said.

President Joko Widodo is expected to issue a presidential decree soon approving the punishment after the cabinet agreed to the measure late on Tuesday, Prasetyo said.

Chemical castration would involve injecting convicted pedophiles with a female hormone in the hope "his sexual desire will vanish", he said.

The rape last year of a 6-year-old student by a group of janitors at the U.S.-embassy backed Jakarta Intercultural School rekindled calls for tougher punishments.

There have been a number of other high-profile child sex crimes since then. A 9-year-old schoolgirl was raped and killed in the capital, Jakarta, earlier this month.

A 39-year-old man has been arrested in relation to that case. Police believe the girl was strangled with a cellphone charger cable, Indonesian media has reported.

(Reporting by the Jakarta bureau; Writing by Randy Fabi; Editing by Paul Tait)

This is a scary thing for Canadian teacher Neil Bantleman who taught at the Jakarta International School, now the Jakarta Intercultural School. Bantleman was convicted and sentenced to ten years in prison for child rape. He was convicted even though there is not a shred of credible evidence against him. Bantleman was found guilty, then acquitted on appeal, then found guilty again when the state appealed.

Indonesia's courts system is very shaky and I have no confidence in their getting it right. Consequently, I expect a lot of innocent men will be castrated and microchipped.


Digital Journal also reports: Rapists to be fitted with microchips

Under a new law, Indonesia will plant microchips on all its convicted child rapists so that they can be monitored at all times.

The microchip will be fitted before the criminals are released from prison, and is needed to monitor and locate them after they are freed.The decree could be signed in the coming days.

Canadian Man Detained in Mexico on Child Sex Abuse Charges

Is he a pedophile, a lunatic, or what?

The Canadian Press 

ACAPULCO, Mexico -- Mexican authorities say a Canadian man is behind bars amid allegations he sexually abused minors on a busy street in Acapulco.

Reports say he was arrested Sunday after a passerby allegedly saw him embracing and touching young girls.

A passerby witnessed the event and filmed the aftermath of the alleged acts, posting the contents online.

The accused is confronted by the unnamed witness and repeatedly denies molesting the girls as he sits on a bench.

When confronted by the video-taker as to whether his behaviour is normal, the Canadian replies in Spanish that it is -- that he likes them and they like him.

During the video, he appears to kiss one of the girls, a toddler, on the mouth, with the father nearby, before a police officer stops him. A release from the attorney general in Guerrero state identifies the man as Walter Zuk, 68, and says he is from Quebec.

It actually appears that he is talking to a policeman when he suddenly leans over and kisses the little girl on the mouth.

The video was widely shared in Mexico and one local media reported a small protest against the accused in Acapulco on Monday.

Global Affairs Canada spokesman Francois Lasalle says the government is aware of a Canadian citizen having been detained in Acapulco, Mexico.

In an emailed statement, he said Canadian officials are in contact with local authorities and are ready to provide consular assistance.

Lasalle said the department could not provide any further information because of privacy laws.

If this is how he behaves in public, what does he do in private?

Neil Bantleman's Sex Abuse Acquittal Overturned by Indonesian Court - Update

Brother reacts to new 11-year sentence:

'We were getting to the end of this nightmare'
Neil is in police custody. Any hope of whisking him out of Indonesia is gone

BY ANNALISE KLINGBEIL , POSTMEDIA

Canadian teacher Neil Bantleman sits on the defendant's chair prior to the start of his trial hearing at South Jakarta District Court in Jakarta, Indonesia, Monday, Dec. 2, 2014. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP, Tatan Syuflana

Friends and family of a former Calgary schoolteacher are devastated by the latest twist in an Indonesian sex abuse trial that on Thursday reached the highest levels of Canadian government.

On Tuesday, the Indonesian Supreme Court overturned the lower court's decision and ordered Bantleman back to prison, just six months after his acquittal.

From his home in Burlington, Ont., Neil’s brother Guy Bantleman said Thursday his family is disappointed by what’s happened and he’s planning to meet with the department of Foreign Affairs and consular services in Ottawa.

“We were getting to the end of this nightmare but this very sudden and abrupt decision by the Supreme Court is shocking,” he said.

“(Neil is) very taken aback by what’s happened. He was getting in that mindset that freedom was going to be coming to him shortly and the prospect of being in custody again and spending more time in jail, none of that is obviously very appealing.”

Bantleman’s nightmare began almost two years ago when the elite Jakarta Intercultural School (formerly called the Jakarta International School) where he worked was embroiled in controversy after a janitor was accused of raping a five-year-old boy in a school bathroom in March 2014.

Bantleman, who is originally from Burlington, Ont. and taught at Calgary’s private Webber Academy for 10 years, was taken into custody on July 10, 2014 with Indonesian teaching assistant Ferdinant Tijong. Months later, both were charged with sexually abusing three young boys at the school, where Bantleman and his wife had worked for four years.

In April 2015, Bantleman and Tijong were found guilty and sentenced to 10 years in jail, in a trial that was widely criticized for irregularities, injustices and a lack of evidence.

The former Calgary teacher and maintained his innocence and appealed the conviction to the Jakarta High Court, which acquitted Bantleman and Tijong of child sexual offences last August.

The pair was released from prison but Bantleman was not permitted to leave the country because of a subsequent appeal filed to the country's Supreme Court.

Bantleman’s brother Guy said a panel was named to oversee the Supreme Court appeal on Monday and by Tuesday evening in Ontario he heard the Indonesian Supreme Court had overturned his brother’s acquittal.

“We’re extremely surprised this transpired. There doesn’t seem to be any justification from the courts on why the reason and rational for their decision,” he said.

In its decision, the high court also ordered both Bantleman and Tijong to serve 11 years in prison instead of the 10 years they initially received and ordered each to pay a $7,440 fine each or serve six more months in jail.

The news spurred a statement from Minister of Foreign Affairs Stephane Dion, who says the Canadian government is “deeply dismayed and shocked” by the decision.

It marked the first time the federal government has publicly weighed in on the case.

Dion warned the outcome of the high-profile case has serious implications for Indonesia’s reputation as a safe place for Canadans to work, travel and invest.

“This decision is unjust, given the many grave irregularities throughout the various proceedings in this case and the fact that all evidence presented by the defence has systematically been rejected,” the statement read.

“Despite Canada’s repeated calls for due process, this case was not handled in a fair and transparent manner.”

U.S. Ambassador Robert O. Blake also expressed disappointment over the verdict, saying the outcome of the legal process will impact international views about the rule of law in Indonesia.

Meanwhile, news the respected teacher has been ordered back to prison has devastated his supporters in Calgary.

Nancy McKellar, who worked with Bantelman at Webber Academy and has organized several Calgary rallies and vigils in his honour, said Thursday she was shocked when she heard about the latest development early Thursday morning.

“I felt like my heart was breaking and I’d been punched in the gut,” she said.

“It just seems so overwhelmingly obvious to us here in Canada that they’re innocent.”

Neil Webber, the founder, president and chairman of Webber Academy, where Bantleman worked as a physical education teacher and coach, said Bantleman was a superb teacher.

“Students loved him, teachers loved him, parents loved him,” he said.

“The one word that describes Neil Bantleman best is gentleman.”

Mayor Naheed Nenshi told reporters Thursday the news was “very upsetting” and he tweeted Minister Dion asking, “How can we get him home?"

Under Indonesian law, both Bantleman and Tijong still could challenge the sentence by filing for judicial review by the Supreme Court if they have new evidence.

Guy Bantleman said a judicial review would be the last appeal possible for his brother and the family is looking into retaining a Toronto law firm to help with the process.

While Tijong has already been arrested and taken back to prison, Neil was travelling and wasn’t in Jakarta when the ruling was handed down. He’s not yet in custody and is speaking with Canadian consular officials, his brother said.

I wonder, is there any chance he can be smuggled out of that judicial cesspool? Let's hope and pray he can get to the Canadian or US embassy before the police pick him up. 

-- With files from The Associated Press

Nightmare Nearly Over for Canadian Teacher Neil Bantleman in Indonesia

Neil Bantleman freed after sex assault conviction overturned by Indonesian court

Teaching assistant from Jakarta school also cleared by high court in appeal hearing

CBC News

Canadian teacher Neil Bantleman, right, hugs his wife Tracy after he was
released from Cipinang prison in Jakarta on Friday. Bantleman had spent
more than a year in prison on allegations he sexually abused three
children at an Indonesian school. (Achmad Ibrahim/Associated Press)

On Friday, Indonesia freed Canadian teacher Neil Bantleman and an Indonesian teaching assistant, Ferdinant Tjiong, who had been jailed for sexually abusing students at an international school in a case critics say was fraught with irregularities and put the country's justice system under the spotlight.

"The truth has finally come out," a tearful Bantleman announced before kissing his wife upon his release from an East Jakarta prison, where he and Tjiong were met by dozens of cheering family members and supporters.

Bantleman, 45, and Tjiong were found guilty in April of abusing kindergarten students at the Jakarta Intercultural School (JIS). They had been sentenced to 10 years in prison and fined 100 million rupiah ($7,600 Cdn). The two men filed appeals to the Jakarta High Court in May.

The lawyer for both men, Hotman Paris Hutapea, said Friday that the court overturned both Bantleman and Tjiong's indecency convictions for raping three kindergarten students, now six and seven years old, at the international school.

"Justice has been done," Hutapea told The Associated Press on Friday.

The judge delivered the decision in closed court, said reporter Jack Hewson, who is covering the story from Jakarta for CBC News.

Hutapea brought the written decision to an awaiting media scrum and read back the findings — which was not guilty based on the revisions of the evidence against both men, Hewson said.

"Tracy Bantleman and Ferdinant Tjiong's wife Siska both joined Hotman Paris [Hutapea] to announce the verdict, they were both extremely emotional addressing the crowd of journalists," Hewson said.

"Tracy said justice had finally been served and their husbands would be coming back to them where they belonged. She then broke down in tears." 

Bantleman's brother Guy Bantleman, who lives in Toronto, told CBC News late Thursday evening that he had received confirmation the convictions had been overturned.

In an email on Friday morning, Guy said the duo had been released and that the Bantlemans will spend the next 72 hours away from the media spotlight.

After the weekend, he said, the family will determine next steps, including a possible appeal by the prosecutor to the supreme court in Indonesia.

Men always maintained innocence

Bantleman, right, and Indonesian teaching assistant Ferdinant Tjiong, left,
raise their hands as they stand with lawyer Hotman Paris Hutapea, centre,
after they were released from prison in Jakarta on Friday.
(Achmad Ibrahim/Associated Press)

Bantleman and Tjiong always steadfastly maintained their innocence and were supported by fellow teachers and the principal at the Jakarta International School, now called the Jakarta Intercultural School.

Bantleman, a Burlington, Ont., native who used to teach at the Webber Academy in Calgary, has been behind bars in Jakarta since 2014 when the allegations were made.

Nan McKellar, who worked in Calgary with Bantleman, said she was "so happy" with the news.

"You know what, at our rally a month ago, down at city hall, there was no conception, no idea that this could happen this soon," she said. "Oh my gosh."

"You would only have to be in a room with Neil for a minute to know he is the most upstanding straightforward, no pretension, nothing hiding kind of person you will ever meet. None of us ever had a doubt for even a second," she added.

The Jakarta school where he worked is attended by children of foreign diplomats, expatriates and Indonesia's elite. It has 2,400 students aged three to 18 from about 60 countries.

Hutapea has said the rape claims were all about money.

This is what I have been saying all along. Indonesia, and other Asian countries have developed a culture of suing or extorting money from foreigners for sexually abusing their children, regardless of whether or not it actually happened.

The principal and a number of other teachers have alleged the same about the case. The parents of one of the children had sued the school for alleged negligence and were seeking $125 million in compensation.

Civil case thrown out 

But on Monday, the same district court threw out the civil case brought by the mother of one of the children against the school, saying it had not proven that any of the alleged abuses had actually taken place, since new evidence from medical reports from three different hospitals in Jakarta and Singapore showed no major injuries or abnormalities in the three children.

The decision came after a court in Singapore on July 16 ruled that the woman accusing Bantleman had defamed him, Tjiong and the school because the allegations of sexual abuse could not be proven, and ordered the parent to pay a total of $164,700 in damages.

The case was brought in Singapore by Bantleman's family because the initial allegations were made in Singapore through emails, texts and other digital communications.

Hutapea said both decisions had an impact on the higher court's decision to free Bantleman and Tjiong. The arrests of Bantleman and Tjiong in July last year followed reports from the parents of a six-year-old boy who had been sodomized three months earlier.

Four male janitors were sentenced to eight years in jail in that case, while a woman received seven years as an accomplice. Police said a sixth suspect killed himself in custody by drinking bathroom cleaner.

Hutapea said a copy of the higher court decision has to be taken to the district court to start the process of getting his clients released from prison.

Prosecutors, who could appeal the latest decision to the Supreme Court, could not be reached for comment.

Congratulations Neil and Tracy, we are so glad truth has prevailed.