A childhood lost can never be regained.

Last week I was shopping in the new Loblaws store that has taken up residence in the Maple Leaf Gardens building. The spacious store was bustling with shoppers, many taking pictures and excitedly calling friends on their iphones describing the new store. I wondered how many of them knew about the crimes that took place here, or if they cared.

Every time I go near that building, I think of Martin Kruze, a man I've never met and never will. Martin killed himself in November 1997 by jumping off the Bloor St. viaduct, a few hundred metres from where I now live.

He was one of the many children who were sexually abused in this iconic building in downtown Toronto. Martin was the first victim to come forward in 1997. I think of Martin Kruze and Sheldon Kennedy because the same year, I was going through a very public case regarding sexual abuse myself.


The effects of childhood sexual abuse lasts for years and destroys lives.

I was sharply reminded of this on Tuesday when the pedophile Graham James was sentenced to a pathetic two years in prison for repeatedly molesting Theron Fleury and his cousin Todd Holt.

I had been sexually abused for more than a decade, by two men, one an uncle and the other a family friend. It began when I was 10 years old. The uncle pleaded guilty to molesting me (and others) more than 500 times. He was sentenced to 10 years. He served about 3. The other man killed himself before standing trial.

In 1997, he also admitted to molesting Sheldon Kennedy, who played in the NHL, and another player. James served about 18 months for that conviction. 


Mr. Holt, said in a statement yesterday, "This sentence today is nothing short of a national travesty because we know that childhood sexual abuse has reached epidemic proportions in our country."  I couldn't agree more.

The province of Manitoba should appeal the sentence of Graham James. As it stands James could be out of prison by November of this year!

The survivors of childhood sexual abuse deal with the effects of the abuse daily, for the rest of their lives. Studies have proven higher rates of drug and alcohol abuse, depression and suicide.

This has to stop. We must send a strong message to those who abuse children that they will be punished to the full extent of the law.

We must send an equally strong message to the children who are being abused that we won't tolerate abuse  and they will be supported if/when they come forward.

Judge Catherine Carlson has done a great disservice to the people of Canada.


A childhood lost can never be regained. Ever.

Pope urges church to reflect on sex abuse or The 70's; Everyone's diddling so Priests should too!

Pope Benedict XVI told Vatican officials Monday that they must reflect on the church's culpability in its child sex-abuse scandal, but he also blamed a secular society in which he said the mistreatment of children was frighteningly common. (notice that whenever the church makes any sort of apology there is always a very big BUT blaming the rest of society for their criminal behaviour?)

In his traditional, end-of-the-year speech to Vatican cardinals and bishops, Benedict said revelations of abuse in 2010 reached “an unimaginable dimension” that required the church to accept the “humiliation” as a call for renewal.

“In the 1970s, pedophilia was theorized as something fully in conformity with man and even with children,” the pope said.  (In other words. It was okay to rape and molest children back in the good old days)

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.

Another diddling priest....lets all praise God for his bounty

The defrocked priest is by turns remorseful and flippant as he recounts in graphic detail a lifetime of sexually abusing children. Then, near the end of “the most honest confession of my life,” he turns to the movie camera to wink and smile at his victims.

If this creep is "...flippant" then, in my opinion any remorse he may demonstrate is an act. In my experience the only remorse these creeps ever have is related to getting caught.

Click the title link to see the entire article from the Globe and Mail.