Former Ottawa Teacher Charged for 1970s Child Sex Abuse

Another Canadian Teacher revealed as a pedophile

Donald Greenham, 73, faces 14 charges for assaults

on four teenagers, who police say he abused

in the 1970s while he was a teacher and a coach.

By: Emma Jackson Metro

A former Ottawa teacher faces 14 criminal charges related to child sexual assaults that took place in the 1970s and 1980s.

Ottawa Police began investigating former Ottawa-Carleton District School Board teacher Donald Greenham, 73, in June after a victim came forward alleging abuse between 1970 and 1982.

Police said three men and one woman are known victims, but there could be others.

The 14 charges include gross indecency, indecent assault on a male and indecent assault on a female, in keeping with the criminal code of the time.

Police said the victims were between 14 and 17 years old at the time, and the “multiple incidents” took place while Greenham was on duty as a teacher and a coach.

He was scheduled to appear in court Monday.

Anyone with information should contact the sexual assault and child abuse unit at 613-236-1222 ext. 5944, or anonymously at 1-800-222-8477.

What Are the Odds a 3-Time Child Sex Abuser Will Re-offend?

Sex offender's move reveals tension between reintegration and public safety

GLENDA LUYMES (Vancouver Sun)


Mission, BC residents upset by the release-into-the-community of sex offender James Conway protest at the office of Mission Matsqui Fraser Valley MP Jati Sidhu in Mission, BC Friday, August 5, 2016.  PHOTO BY JASON PAYNE

MISSION, British Columbia — When the sun shines, the gas station near sex offender James Conway’s new home is a magnet for Slushie-seeking kids. 

With a school bus stop and two Pokestops down the street, the Mission neighbourhood is simply the wrong place for a pedophile, say protesters, who are vowing to remain at the roadside near his home with their signs as long as Conway remains in their community. 

But where is the right place?

“The ultimate goal is for him to go to a community that’s better funded to deal with him,” said protester Mitch Smith, “or maybe a mental health facility.”

Conway has already tried to settle in Surrey, Delta and Abbotsford. He moved to Mission last weekend.

Convicted three times of sex offences against children, Conway was jailed in April 2014 after he breached the conditions of a previous release. He was fresh out of jail in February 2015 and living in Surrey when he was sent back to jail for sitting beside a teenage girl on a bus, again breaching the conditions of his release.

Surely, a 3rd conviction for child sex abuse ought to be indication that a pedophile is not going to change. Or, how many does it take? How many children have to be molested before the courts realize the obvious - re-integration of chronic pedophiles does not work and puts innocent children at great risk, for the possibility of benefiting a child molester?

In April 2015, he was the subject of a Delta Police warning when he moved to that community.

In August 2015, he moved again, this time to Abbotsford, where his arrival was heralded by protests and several acts of vandalism at his home. For almost a year, a crude hand-painted sign nailed to a power pole at a busy intersection warned passersby about the resident sex offender.

Last Sunday, one community’s fear disappeared — and became another’s.

B.C. Corrections issued a warning about Conway’s move to Mission, noting the high-risk sex offender is on 24-hour house arrest and subject to 25 court-ordered conditions. He cannot leave his house without an approved adult.

For how long?

“His private residence does not violate his court-ordered conditions and B.C. Corrections does not have the legal authority to relocate Mr. Conway from this residence, as we must operate within the confines of his court order,” said spokesperson Amy Lapsley.

Public safety seems to have been of great concern to those planning for Conway’s release from prison, said Micheal Vonn, policy director for the B.C. Civil Liberties Association. “It’s hard to fathom more stringent conditions.”

While the fear over Conway’s presence in Mission is understandable, “reintegration has to happen,” Vonn said. “We are not a society that incarcerates people for life, apart from those who have been designated as a dangerous offender.”

Former inmates are most at risk of reoffending if they don’t find community support and are unable to reintegrate into society, says Dr. Eric Beauregard, a criminology professor at Simon Fraser University.

“We also don’t want to fall into the trap of ghettos, where we create a community of sex offenders,” he said. “It’s that kind of association we’re trying to break.”


Recidivism rates

Vonn also pointed to the “logistical difficulty” of finding a city where an offender like Conway could live without ever seeing a child. “Whatever we wish, 100 per cent safety and security don’t exist anywhere,” she said.

No, but can we shoot for 90 or 95%? Recidivism rates for child sex abusers don't come close to those numbers. This is from Public Safety Canada

Results

Sexual recidivism was measured using the original definitions from the original research reports: 5 data sets used convictions, 4 data sets used new charges (or a new conviction), and one sample used convictions, charges, and additional police information (Manitoba). The five and 10 year recidivism estimates were 17% and 21% for the studies that used only convictions as their recidivism criteria, and 12% and 19% for the studies that used charges and convictions as their recidivism criteria. 

Someone please explain to me how the rates were reduced when the criteria was increased?

Given the similarity in the recidivism rates based on convictions alone and charges and convictions, the data was combined to provide overall estimates of sexual recidivism rates. The rates estimated using the combined sample would be closer to the reconviction rate than the re-arrest rate because it appeared that the sources used for the recidivism data contained relatively few charges that did not ultimately result in conviction.

Sexual recidivism rates

Table 2 summarises the recidivism estimates for three distinct time periods, five years, ten years, and fifteen years, for each of the subgroups examined. The overall recidivism rates (14% after 5 years, 20% after 10 years and 24% after 15 years) were similar for rapists (14%, 21% and 24%) and the combined group of child molesters (13%, 18%, and 23%). There were, however, significant differences between the child molesters, with the highest rates observed among the extrafamilial boy-victim child molesters (35% after 15 years) and the lowest observed rates for the incest offenders (13% after 15 years).

Is there any possibility that they took into the consideration the fact that an incest offender after 15 years plus prison time would not have any children in his family to re offend? In most cases his children would have been removed from access by him even if they were still children when he emerged from prison. Consequently, the lowest observed rates are probably irrelevant and should not be considered in the overall rate estimate.

Offenders with a prior sexual offence conviction had recidivism rates about double the rate observed for first-time sexual offenders (19% versus 37% after 15 years). Age also had a substantial association with recidivism, with offenders older than age 50 at release reoffending at half the rate of the younger (less than 50) offenders (12% versus 26%, respectively, after 15 years). 

Remember, these aren't actually 're-offend' rates, these are 'caught re-offending' rates. We can't assume every convicted child molester who re-offends has been caught and charged, or convicted. Actual rates would, of course, be higher.

A prior offence doubles the recidivism rates, but no indication how three prior convictions influences the rates. If it's 37% for one prior offence, wouldn't it be 50% or more for three?

Conway is just 41 years old. The report above says offenders under 50 are twice as likely to re-offend as those over 50. That increases Conway's probability of re-offending even more. I don't know what the final probability would be, we are definitely in guessing mode here, but I can't see any possibility of it being less then 50%.

But that's a risk the courts and B.C. Corrections seem willing to take. Probably none of them have small children and live in the area.

As expected, those who have remained offence free in the community were at reduced risk for subsequent sexual recidivism. Whereas the average 10 year recidivism rate from time of release was 20%, the 10 year recidivism declined to 12% after five years offence-free and to 9% after 10 years offence-free. The five year recidivism rate for those who had been offence-free for 15 years was 4%. Offence-free was defined as no new sexual or violent non-sexual offence, and no non-violent offences serious enough that they are incarcerated at the end of the follow-up period.

Remember, these aren't actually re-offend rates, these are 'caught re-offending' rates. Actual rates would, of course, be higher.

But for Sarah Hanson there has to be a better place than her community. “It’s the worst place they could put him,” she said.

The Mission woman started an online petition asking the local MLAs and MP to change the laws.

“I thought the laws need to change. Someone should do something, and I realized that I could.” By Friday afternoon she had collected 1,084 names.

“(Conway) is not ready to be a part of our community,” reads the petition. “Alternative locations should be considered in areas that are not populated with young families.”

A TV Employee and a Bigamist Among Today's Pedophiles and Perverts

Former TV employee gets 52 years for child sex abuse

Tom Steele 

A former employee of WFAA-TV (Channel 8) has been sentenced to 52 years in prison for child sex abuse.

Michael Chappell, 44, was arrested at the downtown Dallas TV station in July. He worked in the company’s IT department.

Chappell was charged with three counts of indecency with a child and one count of aggravated sexual assault of a child. Court records show that the incidents occurred from 2008 to 2011

Little Elm police, who conducted the investigation, said the charges involved a family member.

On Monday, a jury found Chappell guilty of all four charges. He was sentenced to 25 years in prison for the sexual assault charge and nine years for each indecency charge. He will have to register as a sex offender.

Chappell had previously been arrested on similar charges.

In June 2012, he was charged with injury to a child, elderly person or disabled person with bodily injury stemming from an alleged 2011 incident. That charge was dismissed.

In May 2014, he was charged with indecency with a child from an alleged 2008 incident. That charge also was dismissed.

Convicted bigamist now facing child sex abuse charges

By John S. Hausman

MUSKEGON, Michigan – A Michigan man once convicted of polygamy has been charged with a potential life felony for alleged sexual assault of a girl when she was 10 years old.

Steven Charles Ogle Jr., 36, of Coral was arraigned Friday, March 11, on a charge of first-degree criminal sexual conduct with victim younger than 13. The felony, which alleges that he sexually penetrated the child, is punishable by up to life in prison.

He's charged as a fourth-time habitual offender based on prior felony convictions, one of which – polygamy – made headlines at the time.

Ogle in 2003 pleaded no contest to that charge, acknowledging he was married to two wives at once.

He claimed it was unintentional, maintaining he thought he was divorced from his first wife when he married a second woman in Muskegon County in August 2002.

Ogle wound up with a one-year jail sentence that didn't add to his time behind bars because, by that time, he was already in state prison serving a sentence for larceny from a building. The sentences were served concurrently.

At Ogle's probable-cause hearing in the polygamy case, his first wife testified they lived together only a short time after their June 2001 marriage, until Ogle went to jail on another charge. She testified they had never divorced nor even started divorce proceedings.

Each woman gave birth to a child in the summer of 2003 that each said was Steven Ogle's.

In the new rape case, investigated by the Muskegon Police Department, the Muskegon County Prosecutor's Office alleges that Ogle sexually assaulted the girl sometime between 2008 and 2009, when she was 10, in the Muskegon home where Ogle then lived.

The girl, now 17, recently told a friend, who told her mother, and the second girl's parents called police, according to Chief Assistant Prosecutor Timothy M. Maat.

Besides the polygamy conviction, Ogle has also been convicted over the years of breaking and entering a building with intent, larceny in a building, domestic violence, multiple cases of insufficient funds checks, retail fraud and, in 2003, arson, Maat said.

Jury finds Wyoming man guilty of child sexual abuse

Lillian Schrock For The Gazette

CASPER, Wyoming — Following a five-day trial, a jury on Friday found a Casper man guilty of sexually abusing two girls.

Desmond Otto Triplett is being held in the Natrona County Detention Center pending his sentencing.

The 12-person jury found Triplett, 65, guilty of four of six charges. Authorities had accused him of sexually abusing three girls in the 1970s and assaulting a girl over a three-year period starting in 2010.

The jury convicted Triplett for taking immodest, immoral or indecent liberties with a 15-year-old girl from 1975 to 1977. He was also found guilty of three counts of second-degree sexual abuse of a child for assaulting a 13-year-old girl beginning in 2010.

Triplett had also been accused of taking immodest, immoral or indecent liberties with two 13-year-old girls from 1976 to 1977. He was acquitted of those two charges.

Defense attorney Rob Oldham maintained during the trial that Triplett was not guilty of abusing any of the girls. He also accused the police department of conducting a “horrific” investigation based on no evidence. For example, detectives failed to make copies of text messages Triplett had reportedly sent one of the victims, Oldham said.

“They haven’t come close to proving their case,” he said of the state prosecutors. “They have the same things they had when they started: people making accusations.”

Prosecutor Stephanie Hambrick shot back at Oldham’s assertion that the girls had “jumped on the bandwagon with accusations,” saying it is difficult for victims to come forward and testify about their abuse.

“Why would she want to come in and share her story with a room full of strangers?” Hambrick said of one of the victims. “It’s not easy for victims to come forward.”

The first victim said Triplett sexually assaulted her at a party in 1975. Triplett continued to assault the girl until she became pregnant, and then he forced her to get an abortion.

He then forged the girl’s birth certificate so they could get married. They had a child together, and she eventually divorced him.

The more recent victim told police Triplett plied her with gifts, telling her she had to pay him back by sleeping with him.

The charges Triplett was acquitted of were based on accusations he supplied two young girls with alcohol and sexually assaulted them.


The Casper Police Department began investigating the case in October 2013. Triplett was arrested in November 2014 and bonded out of jail.

Kenyan Man Charged Over ‘Improper Phone Use’ in Gay Entrapment Case

Gay man was reported because he was a teacher

© Andy Clark / Reuters

A teacher in Murang’a County, Kenya, was charged with improper use of a phone after he allegedly sent explicit messages to a journalist confessing his love for him.

Godfrey Mburu Waithera, who purportedly tried to solicit sex from the male journalist, was charged with four counts of improper use of a phone, according to The Daily Nation.

The 20-year-old denied the charges and was released on a Sh200,000 bond – the equivalent of just under $2,000.

The journalist says he gave Mburu his number at a media roadshow held in Gatanga, Tuko reports.

The journalist, who has not been named in local media reports on the case, claims Mburu subsequently sent him explicit messages asking him to have sex. He said that he decided to report the messages after discovering that his suitor was a teacher, according to Nairobi News.

Police officers set up a trap for Mburu, arresting him after he agreed to meet the journalist in Gatanga. Mbruru admitted to being gay and a hearing will now take place on March 7.

Homosexuality is illegal in Kenya. In 2014, a new and extreme Anti-Homosexuality Bill was submitted by the Republican Liberty Party in the National Assembly under which gay people could be stoned to death. The bill was officially thrown out at the end of last year, but practicing homosexuality can still carry a 14-year prison sentence.

Murang'a, Kenya