Recent Posts Tagged With 'sex offender'

• How child molesters are made

  Posted on Tuesday March 17th, 2009 at 23:07 in child molester, sex offender, dangerous offenders, crime research, christopher robin karasek

  What makes a child molester, like Christopher Robin Karasek? Surprisingly, it isn't a history of childhood sexual abuse. A report prepared by researchers working for Canada's public safety department found that past abuse doesn't doom a person to bec...

• Is Josef Fritzl getting a fair trial?

  Posted on Tuesday March 17th, 2009 at 20:45 in court, sex offender, josef fritzl

  Josef Fritzl (above), the Austrian man accused of imprisoning his daughter in a basement dungeon, where he purportedly raped her hundreds of times and impregnated her, isn't getting a fair trial. At least, we don't really know if he's getting a fair ...

• John Waudby Egan: 'Runaway train' stopped by court

  Posted on Wednesday March 11th, 2009 at 21:30 in sex offender, dangerous offenders, john robert waudby egan

  Sometimes a Canadian court gets it just right, wielding with precision a liberty-crushing cudgel. Often vilified by citizens outraged over apparent leniency for criminals, the court deserves credit when it makes a difficult decision that may put a v...

• A predator on the loose

  Posted on Monday March 9th, 2009 at 21:25 in documents, child molester, parole, sex offender, walter jacobson

  Cancrime first introduced pedophile Walter Jacobson (inset) in December 2008 [first post]. Below you'll find a decade of decisions by parole authorities who struggled to control this persistent child predator when the courts failed to brand him a dan...

• EXCLUSIVE: Canada's worst rapist won't go free

  Posted on Sunday February 15th, 2009 at 00:28 in documents, parole, sex offender, serial rapist, selva subbiah

  Canada's worst serial rapist, a 'vile' predator who police believe has assaulted hundreds of women, is not getting out of prison early. The National Parole Board ordered Selva Kumar Subbiah (inset) d...

• Police sell a crackdown with creative packaging

  Posted on Thursday February 5th, 2009 at 21:50 in news release, ontario, sex offender, child pornography, online law enforcement

  Police wage a constant public relations battle, in part, to convince citizens, politicians and bad guys that they're winning the war on crime, even when they know, in their hearts, that they're lagga...

• A statute of limitations for 93-year-old molester

  Posted on Wednesday January 28th, 2009 at 20:22 in sex offender, phillipe hamelin, conditional sentences, sentencing principles

  Philippe Hamelin outlived society's right to punish him. He sexually abused two daughters for roughly a decade, beginning when the girls were five years old, but he's not going to prison for those crimes.A Quebec judge sentenced the 93-year-old Montr...

• Saul Betesh's child killer whine

  Posted on Tuesday January 20th, 2009 at 23:01 in documents, sex offender, convicts, correctional service of canada, saul betesh, kingston penitentiary, tom epp

  We have an obligation in law to keep people, however odious their crime and their background, alive because there is no other alternative. The life sentence of the court is not a sentence of executio...

• A pedophile's pedigree

  Posted on Sunday December 21st, 2008 at 14:55 in documents, pedophile, sex offender, criminal record, walter jacobson

  Here's a rare glimpse into a confidential criminal record of a frightening pedophile, Walter Jacobson (pictured). He has been relentless throughout his criminal career in hunting victims and he is persistent; preying on young girls for decades, unlik...