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Self-help guru ran sex slave cult,
with help from Bronfman sisters

By Ray Downs  

UPI -- A self-help group leader is accused of forcing his female clients into a sexual slavery cult, according to an FBI indictment released Monday.

Keith Raniere, founder of Nxivm, an Albany, N.Y.-based self-group group that aims to "empower people and answer important questions about what it means to be human," was arrested at a luxury resort in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, and deported by Mexican authorities Sunday. He faces charges of sex trafficking, sex-trafficking conspiracy and forced labor conspiracy. Raniere is scheduled to appear in federal court in Fort Worth, Texas, on Tuesday.

"Keith Raniere created a secret society of women whom he had sex with and branded with his initials, coercing them with the threat of releasing their highly personal information and taking their assets," U.S. Attorney Richard Donoghue said in a statement.

FBI Assistant Director-in-Charge William Sweeney Jr. said Raniere "displayed a disgusting abuse of power in his efforts to denigrate and manipulate women he considered his sex slaves" and "allegedly participated in horrifying acts of branding and burning them, with the cooperation of other women operating within this unorthodox pyramid scheme."

Nxivm has been around for more about 20 years and has centers across the United States, Canada, Mexico and Central America. The organization sells workshops that cost as much as $5,000 for five days. Participants are encouraged to keep taking classes to reach higher "goal levels."

The New York Times and Vanity Fair have reported that the main funding source of Nxivm are Clare and Sara Bronfman, sisters who are heiresses to the Seagram family liquor fortune.

That funding helped sustain a secret group within Nxivm called "DOS," which loosely translates from Latin to "Lord/Master of the Obedient Female Companions," and operates with levels of women "slaves" who are headed by "masters."

"Slaves were expected to recruit slaves of their own (thus becoming masters themselves), who in turn owed service not only to their own masters but also to masters above them in the DOS pyramid," prosecutors said. "Raniere stood alone at the top of the pyramid. Other than the Raniere, all members of DOS were women."

The indictment said DOS members were compelled to give damaging "collateral" information, including sexual photographs and video recordings of damaging confessions. The collateral would then be used to blackmail the slaves into performing various tasks, ranging from "acts of care," like getting coffee or cleaning up for their master to having sex with Raniere.

"Other assignments appeared designed to groom slaves sexually for Raniere," the indictment says. "For example, Raniere is known to sexually prefer women who are exceptionally thin, and a number of the slaves' assignments required them to adhere to extremely low-calorie diets and to document every food they ate. Other women were assigned to periods of celibacy during which they were not allowed to have sex with anyone or masturbate...DOS victims who received the assignment to have sex with Raniere believed they had to complete the assignment or risk release of their collateral."

In a statement posted on the Nxivm website, Raniere said, "The picture being painted in the media is not how I know our community and friends to be, nor how I experience it myself."

Raniere added that "highly qualified individuals" performed independent investigations into the group and "firmly concluded that there is no merit to the allegations that we are abusing, coercing or harming individuals."

Yesterday, the FBI raided the home of Nancy Salzman, President of Nxivm. Salzman and Clare Bronfman are both, of have both been members of the Clinton Global Initiative. Nxivm members have donated tens of thousands of dollars to the Initiative and to Hillary's Presidential campaign runs.

Repeat sex offender caught by paedophile hunting group after targeting 14-year-old girl

By Liz Day

A repeat sex offender approached a chat room user he believed to be a 14-year-old girl and asked her if she wanted to see his genitals.

David Taylor, 36, from Barry, who had previously been jailed for serious sexual offences involving children, was caught by a paedophile hunting group after chatting with one of their decoys.

Cardiff Crown Court heard he asked the supposed girl if she had ever seen a man’s genitals before.

Tony Trigg, prosecuting, said Taylor was “snared” by The Guardian Angels – who refer to themselves as online child protection enforcers – on January 6.

The defendant was jailed for three years in June 2005 after being convicted of indecent assault and gross indecency with a child and made the subject of a Sexual Harm Prevention Order.

By the end of 2007, he had breached that order five times and there were further breaches in 2010.

In January 2013, he was sent to prison for four years, with a six-year extension, for inciting sexual activity with a child. Prosecutors said he offered cash to a woman he met online if she would let him abuse her children.

Mr Trigg said Taylor had been before the courts for 17 previous offences, which he described as “serious”.

He added the lifelong Sexual Harm Prevention Order had been designed to prevent him from having any contact with children.

Well, I guess that didn't work so well.

But he was caught by The Guardian Angels trying to chat to someone he believed to be a teenage girl.

Mr Trigg said: “They are what is commonly known as paedophile hunters – volunteers who operate outside the normal authorities.”

Details of child sexual abuse presented at

Saskatchewan dangerous offender hearing

Angelina Irinici reports CTV

Warning: This story contains extremely graphic content.

Kenneth John Bowman played a “game” with an eight-year-old boy: injecting his hand with a needle filled with “medicine” before raping him, according to an interview between police and the boy.

The interview was played during a hearing in Saskatoon Provincial Court on Tuesday to determine whether Bowman be designated a dangerous offender.

A judge deems someone a dangerous offender if the Crown proves the person is a threat to the safety and mental well-being of the public. Dangerous offenders can receive an indeterminate prison sentence.

Bowman previously pleaded guilty to eight charges, including making and distributing child pornography, administering a stupefying drug and sexual assault.

Cpl. Jared Clarke with the Saskatchewan Internet Child Exploitation Unit testified Tuesday that Bowman was arrested March 9, 2016, after chatting with an undercover police officer in Toronto in an online group dedicated to the sexual abuse of children.

Bowman logged on and wrote, “Morning my fellow pervs. I want to **** a boy,” according to Clarke. Bowman then uploaded a photo to the group of him sexually assaulting the eight-year-old.

Bowman believed the undercover officer was a man and invited him to Saskatoon so the two of them could abuse the child. Bowman told the officer he had been raping the child since he was six years old. He detailed how the two men could get the boy high on meth and rape him. The two discussed the officer flying to Saskatoon, paying for methamphetamine and a hotel room, since Bowman would provide the child. Bowman gave his phone number to the officer and arranged to meet him at the airport, according to Clarke.

The officer in Toronto alerted the ICE Unit about Bowman once she confirmed he was in Saskatoon based on his IP address. Police arrested Bowman that day outside his apartment building. Officers were then able to identify the boy and reach out to his family.

In the interview with police, the child said Bowman injected his hand with “medicine” that made his knees feel “wobbly” and his voice sound different.

The boy said Bowman injected him so Bowman’s “pee pee” could go all the way in his “bum.”

Officers found photos on Bowman’s cellphone of the boy being sexually abused and raped by Bowman in his apartment.

Clarke presented a letter to the court in which Bowman apologizes for harming the child. 

Bowman testified he is HIV positive. Photos of him and the boy do not show him wearing a condom, Clarke testified. The boy tested negative for HIV.

Bowmans’s testimony was part of an expungement hearing that also began Tuesday. Bowman previously pleaded guilty to two counts of aggravated sexual assault against two adult men, but wants those pleas erased. He also wants a guilty plea of aggravated sexual assault against the child to be replaced with the lesser offence of sexual assault causing bodily harm.

These charges stem from Bowman not disclosing his HIV positive status to the men and from the fact a child cannot consent to sex — which includes sex with someone who is HIV positive.

Bowman’s defence lawyer Tanis Talbot argued the charges should be erased and, in the one instance, replaced, because new scientific evidence shows Bowman’s HIV couldn’t be passed on.

Bowman is scheduled back in court next month to set dates for the continuation of the expungement hearing. A judge will eventually decide if he is deemed a dangerous offender.

Bowman also pleaded guilty to one instance of sexually touching a six-year-old boy sometime between 2011 and 2014.

Good grief! Forget expunging his previous guilty pleas. Expunge Bowman! The man should never see another day of freedom in his life!

Probe into handling of Ireland's

'worst ever child sex abuse case'

A good first step to bringing Ireland's Garda and Tusla

into the 21st century

An inquiry is being ordered into the handling by Tusla and An Garda Síochána of what is feared to be the largest paedophile ring the country has ever seen.

Minister for Children Katherine Zappone intends to commission an independent review of the management of the case, led by the Government's special rapporteur on child protection, Dr Geoffrey Shannon.

The move comes after the Dáil heard claims a whistleblower in the welfare sector had voiced concerns over the urgency of the response of State agencies when allegations first came to light.

TDs were told that up to 20 children have been identified as alleged victims.

Eleven people were arrested in connection with the alleged paedophile ring earlier this month but were later released. Files are being prepared for the Director of Public Prosecutions.

Ms Zappone said that in agreement with Justice Minister Charlie Flanagan she was commissioning an independent review of what she described as "a complex and unusual case of severe neglect and alleged child sexual abuse".

Dr Shannon will be assisted in the inquiry by child welfare consultant Suzanne Phelan and retired Garda chief superintendent Pádraig Kennedy.

Ms Zappone said gardaí and Tusla had been "closely involved" in the case, while some other State bodies had also been involved "to some extent".

"We have agreed that while there is no evidence of any serious mishandling of the case by either Tusla or An Garda Síochána, due to the complexity of the current case it would be good practice to arrange for a short, focused independent serious incident review of the actions to date," said Ms Zappone.

The minister said the review would examine the management of the case, including the inter-agency activity and co-operation which primarily involved Tusla and gardaí.

"The primary purpose of the review is to ensure that any learning which may arise is captured at the earliest possible opportunity and informs future work," she added.

"I am assured that all the children identified as victims of this abuse have been taken into care. No specific details of the case can be discussed, and I am conscious that it is illegal under the Child Care Act 1991 to publish information that could lead to the identification of a child in care."

Dr Shannon will assist in the drafting of the terms of reference for the review and advice will be sought from the Attorney General so that it does not prejudice the Garda inquiry.

The minister said it was intended the review would be completed as soon as possible and publication of its findings considered, subject to legal advice.

Tusla has declined to comment on how matters were handled, stating that it cannot discuss individual cases.

It is understood that Ms Zappone has been informed by Tusla that it managed the case as best it could, but the agency accepted its handling of the matter was not perfect and there were issues which needed to be examined.

Earlier this month, Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin said the scale of what has been alleged was "shocking and may represent a first in this country".

Separately, a senior figure familiar with the investigation told the Irish Independent: "It will be the biggest abuse case in the history of the State and explosive for the State agencies."

Both Ms Zappone and Mr Flanagan were briefed about the situation around the time the arrests were made.

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has also expressed concern.

Mr Varadkar told the Dáil the crimes alleged were "shocking, abhorrent and truly disgusting" and that the Government would fully support gardaí in the fight against all forms of child sexual exploitation.

Four Pedophiles on Today's P&P List from Saskatchewan

Saskatoon man’s child porn collection is among the worst authorities have seen

His collection has led to 1357 more investigations across Canada

By Joel Senick

Reporter Global News

The decision of a 27-year-old Saskatoon man to plead guilty to 42 child pornography-related charges Friday is a “no brainer” according to his defence lawyer.

Shane Dale Pattison’s charges related to roughly 4,000 unique child porn images and videos. He admitted to sharing 267 of the images on a social media chat app.

“This is as overwhelming of a case in terms of evidence as you’ll find,” defence lawyer Brian Pfefferle said to reporters out of court Friday morning.

Pattison was convicted of 53 child porn offences in 2012 and was sentenced to five years in custody, but was released under a number of conditions in September of 2015.

According to submitted details of his offending, Pattison began sharing child porn just weeks after he was released.

“Mr. Pattison’s collection is among the worst I’ve ever seen,” Sgt. Darren Parisien, with Saskatchewan’s Integrated Child Exploitation Unit, said.

“There was a lot of material there very much geared toward torture and bondage and extreme violence towards very young children, as young as infants and toddlers.”

Police have launched 1,357 investigations in Canada and the United States related to the distribution of child pornography due to Pattison’s illegal activity.

Authorities learned that Pattison was possibly breaching his parole conditions shortly after he was released in September 2015. He was placed under surveillance by police and eventually arrested in March 2016.

When officers arrived that day, they found Pattison on his bed, with a blanket partially over his legs, according to an agreed statement of facts that the Crown read out in court Friday.

In an interview he later gave to police, Pattison said it was a “safe assumption” that he was viewing child porn when he was arrested.

In the same interview, Pattison admitted that he can’t help himself if he has access to electronic devices with internet access. He told police that he didn’t receive treatment while in custody and was struggling since his release.

“He hasn’t been given the opportunity to participate in appropriate treatment for any issues that he may have and we’re hoping that in the next round that changes,” Pfefferle said.

The Crown and defence will likely come to the judge with a joint submission that will result in Pattison receiving a seven-year penitentiary sentence, minus time already served on remand, according to Pfefferle.

He added that, if accepted by the judge, it would be the longest sentence ever presented in Saskatchewan in a child porn case that doesn’t include “hands on” offending.

“Much like his last sentence, this will be sort of a precedent setting sentence in the province,” Pfefferle said.

It's still not nearly long enough! Children are being raped and tortured because he is paying for the perverse privilege of watching them. He is contributing to child abuse and child sex abuse and he has admitted he has no control. He ought not to ever get the opportunity to have to practice self-control.

Before a sentencing decision is made, the Crown prosecutor’s office will have to determine if a dangerous offender application will be made against Pattison. A decision will likely be made at his next court appearance on July 19.

Yes, please!

Prince Albert man charged with possession of

child pornography

By Global News

The Saskatchewan Internet Child Exploitation (ICE) unit has charged Warren Nelson Brown, 41, of Prince Albert with possession of child pornography and breach of a conditional sentence.

The ICE unit received a complaint of child pornography videos being uploaded to an online cloud storage account on Feb. 2. The investigation led police to a residence in Prince Albert.

The ICE unit executed a search warrant on April 19. Police seized a computer and storage devices. A forensic examination of the devices found they contained child pornography. Brown was arrested on Tuesday.

He made his first appearance in provincial court in Prince Albert on Wednesday. He will appear again on Thursday morning, and remains in remand.

Brown is the second man to appear in provincial court on child porn-related charges Wednesday. William Winsley, 54, of Eatonia, Sask., appeared in Saskatoon provincial court Wednesday on similar charges.

Police charge Eatonia, Sask. man with

possessing child pornography

By Thomas Piller

Online Producer Global News

Saskatchewan internet child exploitation (ICE) unit charges 35-year-old man after executing a search warrant.

The Saskatchewan Internet Child Exploitation unit has charged an Eatonia man, William James Winsley, 54, with possessing child pornography.

Officials said the investigation was launched in early May after child pornography was uploaded to online cloud storage.

On Tuesday, police executed a search warrant at a home in Eatonia, Sask., and arrested Winsley. Numerous computer and storage devices were seized.

ICE investigators believe there may be other potential victims. Anyone with knowledge of Winsley’s online activity is asked to contact their local police service.

Winsley, from Eatonia, appeared in Saskatoon provincial court on Wednesday. He was remanded for a show cause hearing on Friday.

The town of Eatonia is approximately 215 kilometres southwest of Saskatoon.

From Last month:

Saskatoon teacher facing child porn charges headed to preliminary hearing

By Ryan Kessler

Reporter Global News

A preliminary hearing has been scheduled for suspended Saskatoon teacher Rhett Lundgren, 40, who is facing child pornography and sexual exploitation charges.

The hearing is scheduled to begin Oct. 11 in Saskatoon when a judge will begin determining whether enough evidence exists to proceed to trial.

Lundgren was arrested in December 2016 and charged with one count of attempting to access child pornography and two counts of arranging to commit a sexual offence against a child.

A sergeant with the Saskatchewan Internet Child Exploitation (ICE) unit confirmed the alleged target was a child aged eight to 10 years old.

Lundgren was granted $2,000 bail under strict conditions, only to be arrested again on Jan. 17.

His new charges included:

Possession of child pornography;

Two counts of breaching conditions;

Sexual exploitation; and

Luring.

The second arrest followed a report given to Red Deer RCMP, regarding an alleged incident in 2009, involving a student at a school where Lundgren taught.

She’s believed to have been 17 years old at the time.

Ontario Rapist/Child Rapist Escapes Custody

Brantford rapist escapes Kingston facility

David Maracle, 51, convicted rapist and long-term offender (Kingston Police)

CBC News 

Police are searching for convicted rapist David Maracle. 

A Brantford, Ont., man who raped a 14-year-old schoolgirl in the late 1990s has escaped from a Kingston correctional facility, police warn.

David Maracle, 51, ran off from the Henry Trail Community Correctional Facility Sunday evening, police say.

"He is a dangerous individual, but we don't believe he is out specifically targeting anyone at this point," said Const. Cameron Mack, a spokesman for Kingston Police.

Maracle is a convicted rapist, who was jailed after sexually assaulting a woman in 1987, as well, Maracle was serving time for a 1997 repeated rape of a 14-year-old girl in Brantford, ON, and on the Six Nations reserve.

He was declared a long-term offender in Hamilton Superior Court in 2009.

Maracle is described as a First Nations man, five feet 10 inches tall, about 200 pounds, with short, dark hair.

He was last seen wearing green and grey cargo pants, a white T-shirt, and a dark jacket and sweater.

Authorities said Maracle completed his sentence on Oct. 22, 2015 but was under a Long-Term Supervision Order (LTSO) which ensures potentially high-risk offenders are supervised for up to 10 years after a sentence expires.

The correctional centre Maracle was staying at is a federally operated community-based facility that provides a structured living environment with 24-hour supervision programs.

"Kingston Police and OPP are making a combined effort to locate Maracle, but in the meantime are asking that members of the public remain vigilant," Kingston police said in a media alert.

"If you observe anyone who matches the above description and/or appears to be suspicious, please call 911."

Six Nations, Kingston top right

Canadian Sentenced to Prison Indefinitely After Deemed Dangerous Offender

'There will never be a time when it will be safe

to release' Shayne Lund into community,

Ontario judge says

By Shannon Martin, CBC News 

    On Wednesday, Orillia, Ont., resident Shayne Lund was labelled a dangerous offender. (CBC)

An Orillia, Ont., man who pleaded guilty to molesting children as young as two years old has been labelled a dangerous offender and sentenced to prison indefinitely.

Shayne Lund, 25, pleaded guilty to 34 of the 100 charges he initially faced when arrested in 2013.

In approving the dangerous offender application, Justice Joseph Kenkel said Wednesday morning that the Crown proved beyond a reasonable doubt that Lund is a high risk to reoffend.

Shortly after noon, Kenkel sentenced Lund to indefinite incarceration. The sentence will be reviewed by the Parole Board of Canada in four years, as outlined in the Criminal Code.

"There will never be a time when it will be safe to release Mr. Lund into the community," Kenkel said in handing down his sentence in a Barrie courtroom.

Dangerous offender

Earlier Wednesday, Kenkel labelled Lund a dangerous offender. As that finding was read out, Lund's supporters — including his father Mark, a former Ontario Provincial Police officer — started sobbing. Mark Lund has also been charged with obstruction of justice in the case.

Shayne Lund, wearing black-framed glasses and a red-collared dress shirt, appeared to be shaking as the judge's decision was read to the court.

Kenkel said Lund shows a "complete inability to control sexual impulses," and his "conduct resulted in pain and serious harm to others."

Lund's "repetitive behaviour" from his teens to his early twenties was aggressive, Kenkel said, and showed a "complete disregard for others."

Lund displayed a "history of manipulation and deceit" that cast doubt on his prospects for rehabilitation, Kenkel said.

'He's very nervous'

Lund declined to speak in court Wednesday. His lawyer, Eginhart Ehlers, told court that Lund wanted to offer his sincere apologies to the community.

"He's declining to speak because he can't get his thoughts straight. He's very nervous, and virtually unable to focus," said Ehlers.

"He's had a tough time while incarcerated."

Ehlers argued Lund should be sentenced to eight to 10 years.

Lund has no previous criminal convictions and has spent nearly half of his time in pre-trial custody, in segregation.

'Severe impact'

"His 37-month period of time going through this process has opened his eyes to the damage he caused," Ehlers said. "The irreparable damage to his own family, his own life, more importantly to his victims, to young children, the devastation to their lives."

Ehlers told court Lund has had no contact with his family while behind bars, which has had a "severe impact" on him.

Crown prosecutor Indy Kandola called Lund a "rare-breed offender" and is pushing for an indeterminate sentence.

"He lives and breathes to violate children and animals," Kandola said Wednesday, adding Lund is an "incurable pedophile."

Girlfriends plead guilty

Lund pleaded guilty to six counts of sexual assault, as well as charges of bestiality, possessing child pornography and conspiring to administer a noxious substance to a person under 16.

The crimes involved up to 14 children, and occurred in Orillia, Penetanguishene and Waterloo, the Crown told the court.

    Shayne Lund, Kathryn Thompson, Avery Taylor

Two of Lund's former girlfriends, Avery Taylor and Kathryn Thompson, pleaded guilty to almost a dozen charges each.

Both were sentenced to jail time and designated long-term offenders.

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.”

Human Traffickers - How They Could be Named Dangerous Offenders

A ruling in a Toronto court opens the door to designating human traffickers as dangerous offenders

By Marion Warnica, CBC News 

'I think they just want it over. I think they just want it done,' Michele Anderson, an advocate for human trafficking victims through Covenant House, says about the two girls victimized by a Toronto pimp. (CBC/Craig Chivers)

A Toronto pimp who used fear and a prison-like atmosphere to control his victims faces the prospect of living the rest of his life behind bars because of a precedent-setting court decision.

In 2014, Tyrone Burton became the first person in Toronto convicted of human trafficking. On Tuesday, a judge ruled Burton's offences were serious and violent enough to meet the threshold for the first step in being named a dangerous offender — a rare designation reserved for Canada's most notorious criminals, such as murderer and rapist Paul Bernardo and serial killer Clifford Olson.

"Up until today, there had been no other examples where human trafficking could anchor a dangerous offender application," said Daniel Brown, Toronto director of the Criminal Lawyers' Association.

It's a first in Ontario, and Brown wasn't able to find any other examples in Canada.

"Dangerous offender designations are very rare in Canada for good reason," he said. "There's a very high threshold before a judge will lock somebody up for an indeterminate amount of time."

Sex and hell

Tyrone Burton
(Toronto Police Services)

Ontario Court Justice Mara Greene read aloud her written decision while Burton watched, sometimes holding his head in his hands.

Her words held up a mirror to an ugly week for two teenage girls who came to Toronto for the lure of parties, easy money and drugs. Their identities are protected under a publication ban.

Burton promised one of the girls a good life, protection and love. He told her he was her boyfriend. She started working as a prostitute within 24 hours of their meeting. Her friend soon arrived to try to protect her, and got caught in the mire.

This was an atmosphere of "control and fear," wrote Greene.

She described what court heard in testimony from the women during the previous trial: that Burton forced them to work as prostitutes without condoms, and took the money. He controlled when and how much they ate or drank, took their passports, made them clean his house, kiss his ring, call him "daddy" and have sex with him whenever he wanted — even when they were too tired or ill from having sex with clients all day.

One of the women became seriously ill with stomach problems. She told the court that once she wanted to go to the hotel canteen to get an orange juice, but Burton wouldn't let her leave to get it until she slept with one more client.

After a few terrifying days, a client helped the pair escape and Burton was eventually arrested.

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​​HUMAN TRAFFICKING BY THE NUMBERS

One of the most commonly cited statistics on human trafficking comes from 

the International Labour Office, which estimates that 20.9 million people 

were forced into labour globally at any given time between 2002 and 2011. ​

The crime was written into the Criminal Code of Canada in 2005, 

but remains difficult to prosecute.

RCMP records show there were just 85 convictions for human trafficking

 in Canada as of January 2015. 

Greene's decision explains why Burton's offences pass the test for a "personal injury offence."

She said the conviction met the criteria of an indictable offence involving "the use or attempted use of violence against another person," or "conduct endangering or likely to endanger the life of safety of another person or inflicting or likely to inflict severe psychological damage upon another person, where the offender could receive a sentence of 10 years imprisonment or more."

Deeming a conviction as a personal injury offence is the first step toward an application for a dangerous offender designation. The next step is an application to assess Burton's criminal history as a whole. Court time has been set aside next week to address that question.

Burton has faced a long list of prostitution-related charges dating back to 2003.

On Sept. 18, 2007, he was convicted of sexual assault and sentenced to three years in prison.

He was first arrested for this current human trafficking case in December 2012. While Tuesday's ruling opens the door to a more serious sentence, the support worker who has been helping his two victims says the decision is a mixed victory.

Starting over

"I think they just want it over. I think they just want it done," said Michele Anderson, a human trafficking expert with Covenant House. "It's a long process."

Dangerous offender applications can take months, even years, to complete.

At this point, the victims have had to tell their story three times (to police, during the trial and for the purposes of the sentencing hearing).

Surely, that should be enough. Those testimonies should be admissible in any dangerous offender hearings. The last thing they need is to relive the horror, again.

They feel their lives are on hold until they hear a final decision, and the court process brings them right back to the trauma.

"They start to take those first steps to achieve their hopes and their dreams. And then they have to go and testify... And then they have to relive everything that they went through," Anderson said.

"And they have to provide such detail in court that it takes them back to a really horrible nightmare that they really don't want to have to revisit."

Anderson described how one of the women had successfully enrolled in college to study social sciences, but had to leave her classes after she received the subpoena to testify.

But they still haven't given up on their goals: each woman plans to study social sciences to become support workers and, in turn, help survivors of human trafficking.

Stick to your goals, girls. You can do a whole lot of good with that horrible experience. 

People, we need to pray for these girls.

Political Organizer Fights Child Sex Offender Designation

Ibata Hexamer, a former political organizer for several Vancouver city councillors and the federal NDP pleaded guilty in 2012 to 

six charges relating to the knife-point sexual assaults of 

four young girls.

Child sex predator Ibata Hexamer pleaded guilty to 6 charges relating to the
knife-point sexual assaults of four young girls

By Geordon Omand, 
The Canadian Press 
The judge in the sentencing hearing of a child serial rapist is grappling over whether to allow access to the man's computer. Police say it was full of child pornography.

British Columbia Supreme Court Justice James Williams said the stakes are high for Ibata Noric Hexamer and has called a hearing next week to determine the admissibility of the computer evidence in the sentencing process.

The stakes are also high for all the little girls he will rape if this monster should ever be allowed to walk free again.

Hexamer pleaded guilty in 2013 to four counts of sexual assault and two counts of confinement involving six victims aged six to 14, one of which dates back 20 years.

Prosecutors want Hexamer to be designated a long-term or dangerous offender for his crimes.

"If Crown succeeds in having Mr. Hexamer designated a dangerous offender the consequences for him are great," said Williams on Monday. "He could spend the rest of his life in prison."

Can there be any question that that is where he should spend the rest of his life?

Hexamer's lawyer, Gary Botting, said police should not have been allowed to access his client's computer, which allegedly contained thousands of images of child porn.

Williams took issue with Botting's decision to raise such objections so late in the process, after a forensic psychologist had already completed a psychiatric assessment. He called the move "an astounding proposition."

"I will say this quite pointedly: the manner in which the defence has dealt with this issue is unfortunate in the extreme," said Williams.

Pleaded guilty in 2012

The sex assaults started in 1995 and ended in 2009, after Hexamer attacked a six-year-old girl in Surrey, B.C. He threatened to stab the little girl with a knife before forcing her 12-year-old brother and his 15-year-old friend to lay on the ground in the woods and look away while he sexually assaulted her.

Hexamer pleaded guilty in 2012 to six of the original 23 charges on the condition that the Crown drop the remaining 17, Botting said in an interview outside the court. He added that Hexamer bargained for a 15-year sentence and that prosecutors agreed not to pursue dangerous-offender status.

Botting said his client applied to change his guilty plea earlier this year and fired his previous lawyer, Donna Turco, after she allegedly accepted a deal without Hexamer's consent that didn't include the dangerous-offender condition.

In June, the judge dismissed Hexamer's bid to alter his plea.

Hexamer, who's in his 40s, is a former DJ and political campaign organizer, with experience working on a municipal election campaign in Vancouver and for the NDP in Vancouver-Centre for the 2006 federal election. He has cycled through five lawyers since his arrest in late 2010.

He remains in custody and his sentencing will continue on Oct. 8.

UK Paedophile Sentenced Yesterday is Slovak Psychopath

Foreign rapist sexually abused Rotherham girls as young as three

Eduard Peticky has been jailed for life Photo: South Yorkshire Police

Slovakian sex offender jailed for life after being allowed to travel to the UK despite previous convictions for rape

A Slovakian rapist allowed into the UK has been jailed for life for sex assaults on children as young as three in Rotherham.

Eduard Peticky travelled to England in 2008 for a "better life" and was allowed to stay despite convictions for rape, sexual abuse and robbery in his home country.

He had been jailed in 1988 for more than eight years after raping two women in a park with two accomplices and was branded "a dangerous repeat offender" in Slovakia.

A better life?

After settling in South Yorkshire Peticky, 48, trafficked a young girl for sex before abusing her himself, Sheffield Crown Court heard.

The youngster, who said that she was five, when the incident happened, was so terrified she wet herself and was sick with fear.

Peticky also sexually abused a boy when the child was aged between three and five years old.

His brother Ludovit Peticky was jailed for 12 years for offences against the same two children and a third victim, who was between 10 and 11.

Ludovit Peticky sentenced to 12 years behind bars  Photo: So Yorkshire Police

The offences took place between 2010 and 2012 in the Eastwood area of Rotherham. In September 2013, the victims disclosed what had happened to them to a trusted adult and an investigation began.

The pair had denied the charges but were convicted of a string of sexual offences involving three children following a four-day-trial last year.

Psychopath

Sentencing was delayed as the authorities tried to get hold of details of the pair's previous convictions in Slovakia. Judge Peter Kelson, QC, said the report from the Slovakian authorities indicated that Eduard Peticky was a "particularly repeat offender" and had a "psychopathic personality".

Judge Kelson added: "This was a truly horrifying incident. It is as depraved as depraved could be. It is nothing short of horrific."

Peticky, of Josephine Road, Rotherham, was convicted of four offences last year, trafficking for sexual exploitation, a sexual assault on a child under 13, engaging in sexual activity with a child and causing or inciting a child under 13 to engage in sexual activity.

The court heard that on one occasion, Peticky took a young girl, who told the court she was five when the incident happened, to a man's house where the person attempted to have sex with her, causing the girl to wet herself and vomit in fear.

Peticky then sexually assaulted the child himself before forcing her to watch him and the other man have sex with each other in front of her.

Ludovit Peticky, 45 and now of Legrams Lane, Bradford, but who had lived in Rotherham at the time of the offences, was convicted last year of five counts of sexual assault of a child under 13 and a further count of causing or inciting a child under 13 to engage in sexual activity.

The court heard Ludovit has a mental age of about 10 after having previously been injured in a car accident.

And just his luck to have a big brother who's a psychopathic paedophile.

A chance of parole

Judge Kelson said Eduard Peticky "poses a significant risk to members of the public" and his case was "one of the utmost gravity". He sentenced him to life, he cannot be considered for parole for at least 10 years.

This just drives me crazy! After all the emphatic statements about how horrible and dangerous he is, why  give him any chance of parole in 10 years. His victims will still be in their teens in ten years and will have to worry about running into the guy again should he somehow get parole. He should have no chance of parole for at least 20 years if ever.

Investigating Officer Detective Constable Ian Hampshire said: "These young children suffered horrific abuse at the hands of these brothers over a prolonged period of time.

"The harm that they caused will stay with them forever. I am pleased the young victims found the courage to tell someone what had happened to them so that we could take swift action against the men and bring them to justice.

"I hope this will encourage other victims of abuse to come forward if they feel able to and report what has happened to them in the knowledge they will be listened to and we will investigate thoroughly."

New procedures

A Home Office spokesperson said: "Foreign criminals have no place in the United Kingdom and this Government is using all the resources available to protect the British public.

"In the last five years, we have strengthened the UK's ability to request and obtain criminal records data from other countries about foreign nationals who are arrested in the UK.

"Since 2010, checks on foreign nationals going through the UK criminal justice system have increased by more than 1,000 per cent, helping ensure more foreign criminals are taken off our streets and making our communities safer.

"The Government is also providing leadership in Europe, and across the world, on efforts to improve the proactive sharing of information between countries about foreign offenders."