Diddler Gets Pardon.

I was just informed of the following story, which to me has some personal significance because it was highly pubicized around the same time as the story of my sexual abuse. For once, I have to agree with our Prime Minister, although I suspect his motives are more in line with getting votes not for any concern for victims. He says he thinks it is 'gravely disturbing' in that Pope-ish sort of way, which is to say, the Pope and the church probably find child sexual abuse disturbing in that it may reduce their financial intake. Either way I think it is disturbing and wrong because it is.

Graham James Pardoned for Sex Crimes

Josh Pringle
Sunday, April 4, 2010

A former junior hockey coach who pleaded guilty to sexual assault has been quietly pardoned by the National Parole Board.

The Canadian Press reports Graham James was pardoned on January 8, 2007 after he was sentenced to 3.5 years in prison in 1997.

Creep of the Daye!

It appears that Ontario is still a great place to molest children, and get off with a slap on the wrist with a wet noodle. This fucking creep, Rev. Charles Sylvestre molests 47 girls (that we know of) over a more than 30 year period (that we know of) and gets 3 years!!!?

That means, with the system the way it is, provided he gets early release, he most likely will serve a grand total of about 2 years in prison.

Not a high price for him to pay for more than 30 years of diddling kids! I read in another story that this scumbag was known as 'Father Feeler' in his parish....which once again confirms what I said long ago; "sexual abuse is often the secret that everyone knows about, yet does nothing about." These abused kids will have to deal with this for the rest of their lives, in a world that doesn't comprehend how sexual abuse affects a person, while the priest will be free in a couple of years to take up where he left off.

Note how distraught he looks as he leaves the courthouse in this photo.
Photo Credit: CP Photo/ Diana Martin.