Foster Kids for Sex, Seeking Jail for Spanier on Today's USA/UK P&P List

6 men arrested for historical child sex abuse - UK

Illinois man arrested for CSA and Solicitation - USA

Prosecutors seeking jail term for Penn State's Spanier - USA

Welsh man jailed for 16 counts of historical CSA - UK

Arkansas truck driver gets life for CSA on foster kids - USA

Six men arrested over historical

child sex abuse

Six men have been arrested on suspicion of historical child sex abuse.

A 38-year-old man was the latest person to be arrested by police today (1st June).

It's part of an inquiry being held by the detectives investigating the death of teenager Charlene Downes.

Officers are still looking to find Charlene's body

The man from HMP Preston is the sixth man arrested on suspicion of a series of historical rapes in 2003 and 2004 against a 15-year-old girl.

Five other men from Blackburn, aged 33, 36, 37, 42 and 45, were also arrested on suspicion of historical rapes.

The 37-year-old has been released without charge while the others have been released under investigation.

Meanwhile, Michael Allen McKenzie from Blackpool has been charged with the rape and two penetrative indecent assaults of a girl under 16 as part of a separate enquiry.

The 68-year-old allegedly committed the offences in 2003 and involved a girl who was 14-years-old at the time.

The arrests and charges have been made by the team looking into the disappearance and murder of Charlene Downs in 2003.

Officers offered a £100,000 reward for information that would lead to the killer or killers' conviction or the recovery of her body.

But nobody has ever been brought to justice.

Orient man arrested on charges of child

sexual abuse and solicitation

Isaac Smith 

An Orient, IL man was arrested this week on charges of sexual abuse and solicitation of a child.

According to a news release from the Franklin County Sheriff's Office, Austin Berkley, 24, was arrested around 3 p.m. Wednesday by Franklin County deputies. 

Berkley was arrested at his home on a warrant alleging the crimes of aggravated criminal sexual abuse of a child and indecent solicitation of a child. The victim is a 15-year-old high school student, according to the news release. According to Judici, Berkley is charged with six counts of aggravated criminal sexual abuse of a child older than 5 and four counts of indecent solicitation.

Berkley is being held in the Franklin County Jail on $80,000 bond and is scheduled for a preliminary hearing at 1:30 p.m. June 21 at the Franklin County Courthouse in Benton.

The news release said this arrest is a part of an ongoing investigation and that more arrests and charges are possible.

Orient, Illinois

Prosecutors seek jail time for ex-Penn State president in Sandusky child sex abuse scandal

by MARC LEVY/Associated Press

This file combination photo shows former Penn State Vice President Gary Schultz, left, former Penn State Director of Athletics Tim Curley, right, and former Penn State President Graham Spanier, center, in Harrisburg, Pa. Curley and Schultz each pleaded guilty Monday, March 13, 2017, to a misdemeanor child endangerment charge for his role in the Jerry Sandusky child molestation case, more than five years after the scandal broke. (AP Photos/File)

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) -- Prosecutors want a judge to jail former Penn State President Graham Spanier for his conviction in hushing up suspected child sex abuse in 2001 by Jerry Sandusky, saying he could have prevented other boys from being victimized by the former assistant football coach.

In a court filing unsealed Thursday, the Pennsylvania attorney general's office also assailed two one-time Penn State administrators for their testimony in Spanier's March trial after they pleaded guilty in the case.

Sentencing for all three men is Friday in Dauphin County court.

Prosecutors said state sentencing guidelines indicate that Spanier should get up to a year in jail for his child endangerment conviction.

"The child who was assaulted in the February 2001 shower incident and all of Sandusky's victims that followed were particularly harmed as timely, appropriate action against Sandusky could have prevented their victimization," prosecutors wrote in the 14-page sentencing memorandum. "Their lives have been turned upside down."

They also say that, to this day, the identity of the boy seen in the shower with Sandusky "is still in question" in part because Spanier and the other two men -- ex-athletic director Tim Curley and ex-vice president Gary Schultz -- did not alert authorities.

Curley and Schultz each pleaded guilty to child endangerment.

Spanier's four-day trial revolved around a complaint by a graduate coaching assistant, Mike McQueary, who has testified that he told Penn State officials -- including the late football coach Joe Paterno -- about seeing Sandusky sexually molesting a boy in a team shower in 2001.

Sandusky was not arrested until 2011, after an anonymous tip led prosecutors to investigate. Sandusky was convicted the next year of sexually abusing 10 boys and is serving 30 to 60 years in prison. At least four victims at Sandusky's trial said they were molested after 2001.

Curley, Schultz and Spanier denied they were told the encounter in the shower was sexual in nature.

It wasn't the first time the men had heard a complaint about Sandusky. Prosecutors cited a 1998 complaint against Sandusky over his showering with a boy on campus that led to a campus police investigation, but no charges. Sandusky admitted hugging the youngster in the shower, and promised never to shower with a boy again.

In a separate filing, Spanier's lawyer said the 68-year-old is suffering from prostate cancer and heart problems, and asked for probation and community service.

"Graham Spanier has already suffered severely through public shaming, loss of employment, and significant reputational harm," Spanier's lawyers wrote. "He is almost seventy years old and in worsening health."

Prosecutors said they had agreed not to recommend sentences for Curley and Schultz. But, in the filing, they wrote that Curley's forgetfulness during his testimony in Spanier's trial wasn't credible, and that his memory was "markedly more clear" in his private statement to investigators a week before he testified.

"The commonwealth's position is that Curley's testimony in the Spanier trial was designed to protect those who deserved to share blame with Curley for the decisions that led to the colossal failure to protect children from Sandusky," prosecutors wrote. "His `forgetfulness' also allowed him to save face in a room full of supporters who publicly called this trial a `witch hunt' and fraudulent prosecution."

Prosecutors also attacked Schultz, saying it defied common sense that he seemed unwilling to acknowledge the sexual nature of what McQueary reported, given what Schultz knew about the 1998 incident.

Paterno was never charged with a crime. He was dismissed as coach days after Sandusky was charged and died of cancer in 2012 at age 85.

Fishguard man jailed for historical child sex abuse

From BBC South West Wales 

A 45-year-old man from Pembrokeshire has been been jailed for historical sex offences against a child.

Brian Buckle of Fishguard was convicted of child sex abuse in the 1990s, when his victim was aged between eight and 10-years-old.

Swansea Crown Court sentenced him to a combined 33 years in prison, to be served over a 15 year period.

He was found guilty of 16 counts of non-recent sexual abuse against a child.

Dyfed-Powys Police Det Insp Richard Yelland said the sentence recognised "long-lasting harm" to the victim.

He added: "This is the second case for the force, in recent weeks, where a significant custodial sentence has been passed down to a perpetrator of non-recent sexual offending."

Fishguard, Wales

Van Buren man sentenced to life for child sex-abuse

A judge on Wednesday sentenced Clarence Garretson to life in prison for sexually abusing children

By John Lovett / Times Record 

Clarence C. Garretson will spend the rest of his life in federal prison for a series of sexual abuse crimes committed on children under this care as a foster parent for the Arkansas Department of Human Services.

Chief Judge P.K. Holmes III imposed the life sentence on Garretson, 66, Wednesday in the U.S. District Court of Western Arkansas for his conviction on one count of transporting a minor in interstate commerce with intent to engage in criminal sexual activity.

Garretson was also sentenced to a term of 15 years imprisonment each on four counts of transporting minors in interstate commerce with intent to engage in criminal sexual activity, with those terms to run concurrently with the life sentence.

More than 45 people attended the sentencing of the Van Buren man who pleaded guilty in October to five of the 11 sexual abuse charges that occurred over the course of nearly two decades. With a “rider waiver” from C&T Trucking Co. in Van Buren so a minor could accompany him on a trip Garretson took a 10-year-old girl in 2014 on a trip and raped her, according to court documents.

“What occurred was under the guise of being a foster parent and adoptive parent he committed torture and sexual assault when the children were looking for a place of safety,” Holmes said. “It was an extreme failure on DHS’s part and further victimized the children with the most horrific criminal acts.”

Holmes said he recognized the difficulty for DHS in dealing with deception, but pointed out a female victim had told DHS on three occasions she had been sexually abused beginning when she was 11.

Several of Garretson’s victims, both adopted children and former foster children, read impact statements at the sentencing hearing Wednesday. Each voiced their contempt for Garretson’s use of intimidation to control them and the psychological repercussions they continue to experience as a result of the abuse: Anxiety, lack of self-esteem, nightmares, alcohol and drug abuse, trust issues with males or authority figures and fear of people in general.

“It’s a hurt you can never forget,” a female victim said.

One of Garretson’s victims said he had threatened to kill her younger brother if she exposed the sexual abuse.

“I felt lost, confused, alone, bullied, mad, sad, angry,” a woman who had been abused by Garretson said. “The truth is Arkansas DHS put me in the hands of a monster. Nothing can be done to change that, but he can rot in a federal prison for the rest of his life. There is no excuse to abuse a child.”

A male victim adopted by the Garretsons said in his statement that the investigation into his adoptive parents exposed them as “hypocrites” and he is regaining his self-confidence through therapy.

“Don’t let this dictate your life,” he said to the other sexual abuse victims. “This is the beginning of a new life.”

Concerning the defendant’s wife, the judge said “if she didn’t know she should have. ... It’s such a sad case.”

In 1998, Garretson and his wife were approved by DHS to operate a foster home and later to become an adoptive home.

The FBI special agent learned DHS had received a report in 2002 from a foster child then living in the home that she had been sexually assaulted by Garretson. Based on that information, the agent began locating children who had been in foster care at the Garretson residence.

A second minor interviewed in June 2016 was a foster child in the Garretson home from 2000 to 2004, which led to another Class C felony rape charge for Garretson. At the time of the offense, the girl was over 13 years of age but less than 18.

In 1999, a boy and his two older sisters were sent to the Garretson home by DHS. They were legally adopted by the Garretsons in 2001. The boy was 11 in 2001 when he went out on a long-distance trip with Garretson and was sexually assaulted. This happened on multiple trips during summer vacation from school in 2002 and 2003.

Also in 1999, DHS placed a fifth victim and her two siblings in the Garretson home and she remained there until 2004. The minor was interviewed by an FBI special agent in July 2016 and disclosed she was sexually assaulted by Garretson on an over-the-road trip to California during the summer of 2000 when she was 13 years old.

Youth Pastor/Library Worker, Truck Driver, and Hypnotic Lawyer on Today's P&P List

Ohio attorney jailed for hypnotizing &

sexually assaulting clients

    Michael Fine © Court Chatter View / YouTube

An Ohio attorney who induced clients into a hypnotic trance before sexually assaulting them has been jailed for 12 years.

Prosecutors in Lorain County said 59-year-old Michael Fine had, under the guise of providing legal assistance, carried out a spate of attacks on women for his own sexual pleasure by using hypnosis on his victims.

The father-of-two’s crimes were exposed only when a client became suspicious and began recording her conversations with Fine. The extent of his manipulation later became apparent when one of his victims secretly videod a meeting at his office as part of a police sting, reports NBC4I news.

The attorney was sentenced to 12 years in prison at a Lorain County court on Monday, two months after he plead guilty to sexually-motivated kidnapping and attempted kidnapping, report The Chronicle Telegram.

Judge Patricia A. Cosgrove said Fine had used relaxation techniques to hypnotize, abuse people and “take their dignity.”

Prior to sentencing, Fine said he had “remorse and grief in my heart.”

In a victim impact statement, one of Fine’s former clients described how he preyed on her vulnerability.

“I went to Michael Fine with help in getting out of a terrible and abusive situation. I paid him to help me. He used my trust and his position as my attorney to gain information about my vulnerabilities,” she told the court.

“He then used that information not only to protect and defend me, but also to manipulate, hurt and take advantage of me,” the woman added, according to the The Chronicle Telegram.

Upon his release, Fine will have to sign on to the sex offenders register for at least 25 years. The 59-year-old’s law license has been permanently revoked.

Trial begins for Township Supervisor

accused of child sex abuse

By Jeff Corcino jcorcino@theprogress

The court trial of Robert Philbert Myers, 36, of Bigler Township, Pennsylvania, who is charged with child sex abuse, got under way yesterday before Judge Paul Cherry at the Clearfield County Courthouse.

Myers is currently serving as a Bigler Township Supervisor.

Myers is charged with 20 counts of rape of a child, 20 counts of statutory sexual assault-victim less than 16, defendant more than 11 years older, 20 counts of involuntary deviate sexual intercourse, and indecent assault.

The alleged victim, now 18, was on the stand for six hours yesterday and she gave graphic testimony about how Myers raped and molested her for several years.

The Progress does not publish names of victims of sexual assault.

She said Myers began assaulting her when she was 13-14 years old, but said when she was in fifth grade, Myers started to make inappropriate comments about her body and would sometimes touch her inappropriately.

She said Myers first sexually assaulted her in the summer of 2012 between her 8th and 9th grades in school. At first, she said the incidents occurred about once or twice a month, but this increased over time to where it was occurring three or more times a week.

She said one of the first incidents occurred in the cab of Myers’ tractor-trailer. She said Myers assaulted her in the truck another time after that, but said the assaults usually would occur in the basement of her home or on the couch. She said all the assaults occurred when her mother was not home.

She said the abuse lasted until May 2015 when she told her mother. She said she told her boyfriend a month earlier and he told her to report it — but she initially refused. Eventually he convinced her to tell her mother. She said she didn’t want to face her so she sent her a text message.

Her mother brought her to the state police barracks later that morning.

When the victim was asked by Clearfield County District Attorney William A. Shaw Jr. why she didn’t report it, she said, “I was scared of him.”

She also said he told her not to tell anyone and if she did, no one would believe her and she would get in trouble.

Shaw showed the jury sexually suggestive Facebook messages sent from Myers to the victim. The messages were sent on April 5, 2015. She said at the time, she was on the couch in the living room and Myers was also in the living room. She said her mother was nearby in the kitchen and her sisters were there as well.

In the messages, Myers asks the victim for sex but she refuses. Also in the messages Myers tells her it is “forced love” but not rape.

Eventually she said she stopped replying to him because she fell asleep but Myers continued to send her multiple messages in an attempt to wake her up.

During cross examination by Myers’ attorney, Leanne Nedza of DuBois, the victim was asked why she once told authorities that the first time occurred in the living room but during a later interview she said the first time occurred in the truck. The alleged victim said she couldn’t remember which one was first because they occurred so close to each other in time.

She also said it occurred so often and he did it almost the same way every time that it became routine.

She said Myers abused her hundreds of times over the years.

Nedza also showed a series of Facebook messages where the victim thanked or praised Myers for what he has done for her.

She said Myers often did fun things with her like take her fishing or riding four-wheelers or go-carts and she tried to focus on the positive things in her life. She said she tried to project a positive image of herself on Facebook and was embarrassed and ashamed of what was happening to her.

Nedza also implied that the victim had sent the sexually suggestive Facebook messages herself, but the victim denied she did this.

During opening statements, Myers’ co-counsel, CJ Zwick, said the alleged victim fabricated the story of abuse after Myers had a falling-out with the girl’s mother.

“The allegations are totally false. They didn’t happen,” Zwick said. “They were made up.”

However, when asked by Shaw, the alleged victim said the falling out between her mother and the defendant occurred because she told her that he was abusing her.


The trial is expected to last the rest of the week.

    Bigler Township, PA

Investigation Into Memphis Library Employee, Baptist Youth leader for CSA

Three Men Ask Other Possible Victims To Report Allegations

By Maria Hallas, MEMPHIS, Tenn. (localmemphis.com)

The City of Memphis is investigating an employee, named Chris Carwile, who works at a Memphis library,  and is accused of abusing children while he worked with church youth almost two decades ago. 

Three men filed a police report stating Carwile sexually abused them about 20 years ago while he was an associate youth pastor Immanuel Baptist Church in Collierville.  Immanuel later changed its name to the Church at Schilling Farms. 

The church fired Carwile, but admits it never reported the alleged abuse to law enforcement. Carwile went on to work at another church and is now employed at the city's main library on Poplar. Last week, a city spokesperson says he was placed on paid administrative leave, pending the outcome of an investigation.

The three men met exclusively with the Local I-Team. They say they are speaking out on social media and in the news now to prevent other children from possibly being victimized. They also say they would like to see changes in the Baptist Church to ensure allegations of child abuse are reported to law enforcement. The Local I-Team has repeatedly attempted to contact Carwile, but he has not responded.
   
Kenny Stubblefield, Michael Hansen, and Brooks Hansen claim the effects of childhood sexual abuse still haunt them though they are now in their thirties.
   
"This has damaged me for the last 18 years. Emotionally, mentally, spiritually, I'm damaged because of it," said Stubblefield.

Michael Hansen's suffering grew so great he attempted suicide by deeply slitting his wrists in his parent's bathroom. "In 2007 desperate, depressed, anxious, worried, alone, I finally tried to kill myself," Hansen said.

Hansen's brother Brooks Hansen said the experience affected his relationship with God. "It blew my world up. Struggling, how could God let this happen to me," said Brooks Hansen.

The men claim Carwile assaulted them as teenagers while he was their associate youth pastor at what was then known as Immanuel Baptist Church in Collierville.

"It was November 27, 1998, and he invited me to spend the night at his house. That's where the abuse happened," Stubblefield said.

Their stories are very similar. Each claim Carwile individually invited them to his parents' home, where he showed them porn. They say Carwile refused to let them sleep on a couch or floor.

"He said sleep in my bed because the oils from your skin will get on the couch and on the carpet. My mom loves her carpet," said Michael Hansen.

They all claim they woke to Carwile's assault.

"I remember falling asleep and waking up to having his hand in my shorts and touching me," said Stubblefield.

"I woke up to have his hand down my boxers basically rubbing my private area and freaked out in my head," said Brooks Hansen.

"It was happening some more but much, much worse ... (his hand was) in my underwear," says Michael Hansen.
   
They say after the abuse, they told the then pastor of Immanuel Baptist Church, Scott Payne. Payne fired Carwile, but admits he didn't report the alleged abuse to law enforcement because he only heard general allegations of inappropriate touching. Payne said he didn't realize he was required to report claims of abuse.

Tennessee statutory law requires every person immediately report harm if that person has knowledge of, or is called upon to render aid, to any child, or if the child suffers from, or has sustained any wound, injury, disability, or physical or mental condition, and if the harm is of such a nature as to reasonably indicate that it has been caused by brutality, abuse or neglect or that, on the basis of available information, reasonably appears to have been caused by brutality, abuse, or neglect. Statute annotations reflect the broad reporting statutory requirement went into effect in 1985, thirteen years before the men say they suffered abuse.

Payne asked for the men's forgiveness on camera. "To these young men I would say I still love you. I am sorry that you went through what you did. I am sorry I didn't do more to protect you. It is terrible for anyone to have to go through that. Please forgive me."

"I really, really struggled for years to figure out what the gospel meant to me and if I still believed In the gospel, said Brooks Hansen.

The Local I-Team learned that Carwile worked at the main library on Poplar as a broadcast program coordinator.  A city spokesperson said he is on paid administrative leave pending an investigation into the claims.

The three men say their social media posts speaking out about the abuse resulted in five men contacting them who claim they were also abused by Carwile when he later worked at Cherokee Baptist Church.

The Local I-Team has repeatedly attempted to contact Carwile about these claims, but he has not responded.

If you experienced or are aware of child sexual abuse, please contact police immediately.


If you are aware of or experienced any child abuse similar to that of the men in this story please also contact reporter Maria Hallas at mhallas@localmemphis.com or at 901-500-0531.

Alabama man charged with 2 counts

of child sex abuse

By John Shryock, Digital Content Producer 12WSFA

A Montgomery father walked into his little girl's room only to discover a horrifying situation. Court documents indicate the man's daughter was being sexually assaulted by a 30-year-old man.

The suspect, identified as Montgomery-resident Clarence Thompson, is facing two charges of sexually abusing a child under the age of 12 on separate dates, according to two affidavits. One of the charges alleges abuse in the late hours of Aug. 1, while the other happened Nov. 10.

Police filings indicate Thompson admitted to the assaults.

It was not clear, due to redaction in the court documents, if Thompson is accused of assaulting the same victim.

Thompson is being held at the Montgomery County Detention Facility on bonds totaling $30,000.

Fearing Vigilantes, Judge Protects Privacy of Sex Offender

'I have anonymized the accused,'

Court of Queen's Bench justice said

about convicted sexual predator

By Janice Johnston, CBC News 

We have unanonymized him

    Kenneth Blake Rode, 53, was convicted in October of one count of internet luring,
    and is serving a 15-month sentence. (Facebook)

An Alberta judge independently decided last month to withhold the identity of a man he had convicted of internet luring.

A mandatory publication ban protects the victim, who was only 11 years old when she began exchanging highly sexual text messages with a man old enough to be her grandfather.

'It does seem to run counter to that general principle

of the openness of the court system.'

-Sean Sinclair, media lawyer

No one asked Court of Queen's Bench Justice Brian Burrows to shield the accused's name.

When CBC News asked why he had done so, Burrows issued a two-page document titled "Supplementary Reasons for Judgment." In it, he quoted himself from the court transcript.

Judge feared 'vigilantism'

"In the judgment, I have anonymized the accused," Burrows said in court on Oct. 25. "I've done that because on my own motion without anybody suggesting that I should … because of the nature of the allegations. I think [of] the recent news of vigilante reactions to such allegations. So I have used initials for the accused's name."

Burrows's decision appeared to take the Crown prosecutor and defence by surprise.

Neither lawyer would comment on the record about the decision to protect the man's identity. CBC News contacted media lawyers outside Alberta for reaction.

"Well, it's certainly an unusual decision," Saskatoon media lawyer Sean Sinclair said. "It does seem to run counter to that general principle of the openness of the court system."

A sexual assault victims' advocate and the founder of Little Warriors, a Canadian national charity dedicated to the awareness, prevention and treatment of child sexual abuse, was even harsher in her assessment.

"You know, I think it's not only an insult to the process, but it's also an insult to the victim," Glori Meldrum said.

'It makes the conviction toothless'

"I believe this particular judge is going in the wrong direction," Vancouver media lawyer David Sutherland said.

"Creep Catchers arises because the justice system isn't catching or deterring these perverted perpetrators," Sutherland said. "Luring of young victims continues. With all due respect to Justice Burrows, the existence of Creep Catchers is not a basis to anonymize the accused.

"Somebody's got to think of the kids that get lured. Basically, the courts are kind of covering up for the perpetrator. It makes the conviction toothless."

Sinclair said that in his experience, the decision appears to be unprecedented.

"I haven't seen it in this context," he said. "Where a judge on his own motion, without any evidence, it appears, having been tendered, decides on his own volition to anonymize a decision to protect the person who's been convicted."

Alberta Court of Queen's Bench Justice Brian Burrows decided last month to withhold the identity of a man he had convicted of internet luring. 'I've done that because on my own motion without anybody suggesting that I should … because of the nature of the allegations,' he wrote. (Anglican Church of Canada )

Both lawyers agree Burrows had "inherent jurisdiction" or the right to anonymize the name in his decision. But both also believe the decision does not prohibit others from publishing the accused's name.

"It looks to me that he anonymized his own decision," Sinclair said. "But he doesn't suggest that nobody else can publish the name. He just didn't publish the name in his own decision."

CBC News obtained the perpetrator's name from the court record, and examined the file to ensure no publication ban was in place. The court record shows that Kenneth Blake Rode, 53, was the man convicted on one count of internet luring of a person under age 16.

Rode is now serving a 15-month jail sentence.

Facts of the case

The case began in January 2015, when the parents of an 11-year old girl (referred to in the decision as AB) went to the Edmonton police. They told police they had discovered "their daughter had engaged in sexualized conversations with unknown persons on the internet."  

By the time her parents found out, AB and Rode had engaged in as many as 10 sexually charged online conversations, which included the exchange of graphic photos of their private body parts.

An undercover RCMP officer with the Alberta Integrated Child Exploitation Unit took over AB's account and pretended to be the girl. He let Rode know he was a girl under age 12.  

On Jan. 7, 2015, Rode and the officer posing as AB agreed to meet. The truck driver from southern Alberta was in Edmonton overnight and wanted company.

"Hey, if you here come cuddle up with me and ser (sic) what happens," Rode's text message read.

The undercover officer dropped many clues about age, saying boys she knew still played Pokemon, that she was too young to drive but the tallest in her class and that she was still a virgin.  

None of it deterred Rode.  

"The offer still stands," he wrote.  

The married truck driver sat in a Tim Hortons waiting to meet the young girl he wanted to have sex with. Instead, three police officers came in and arrested him.

When Rode testified in his own defence, he insisted he thought he was dealing with a mature woman online. Burrows didn't believe him, but he still protected Rode's identity.

'It makes me angry'

"The public deserves to know who these offenders are," said Meldrum. "When it comes to safety, it should be kids and the public first. The convicted offenders should be at the last of the list.

Little Warriors founder and CEO Glori Meldrum believes protecting children and the public should come before protecting the perpetrator. (CBC)

"This guy has now been convicted of trying to lure this young child. I don't think he deserves the right to be protected from the public and from the media."

In his decision, Burrows said he was concerned about vigilantism. But Meldrum said that doesn't make sense to her.

"I have never heard of anything on the vigilantism side that an offender has been put at risk," she said. "It's definitely not common."  

Burrows is now a semi-retired judge. He has presided over many high-profile cases throughout his career, including the convictions in 2009 of Dennis Cheeseman and Shawn Hennessey in the deaths of four RCMP officers. He also acquitted a young teen in 2013 on murder charges in the so-called Bosco Homes case.