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Canada’s sex offenders not affected by purge

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MySpace kicks out sex offenders — but not in Canada:

This is a great article from Canada.com that explains while 29,000 registered U.S. sex offenders were located and removed from MySpace’s userbase, no such purge will happen in Canada.

“We can’t even work with any private companies or law-enforcement agencies because we simply can’t get hold of the data,” said John Cardillo, CEO of Sentinel Tech, who said predators are more free to use Canadian social networking sites to lure young victims.

The public does not have access to the national sex offender registry — a database that provides Canadian police services with information to investigate crimes of a sexual nature.

“When the bad guys have to cover their tracks, they get caught,” Cardillo said, who added it was only in May that MySpace began to use his Sentinel Tech’s technology, after signing a seven-figure deal reached with MySpace’s owners, News Corp.

But because Canada’s federal government has not publicly released the names of registered sex offenders, those people are able to travel on the information highway, virtually undetected, Cardillo said. “We can’t see who they are so we can’t see where they are.”

I’d like to hear from Canadians on whether or not they think the sex offender registry should be made public.

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6 responses to “Canada’s sex offenders not affected by purge”

  1. julieq Avatar
    julieq

    The SOR is not made public in Britain or Ireland either , I’m sure there are predators using bebo too . It’s more popular here than my space .

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  2. BelchSpeak Avatar
    BelchSpeak

    Liberal countries value their criminals more than their innocent citizens.

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  3. Ju Avatar
    Ju

    Omg, we need to be able to acess a list where all the pedoz are home adress etc.

    We only know about them when they are release but then again, they are free and anonymous and our children might be still in danger.

    They also need to be blocked from myspace, bebo etc

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  4. yo Avatar
    yo

    you know the person most likly to molest a child is a family memeber. If someone is molesting your kids they wont be some stranger on myspace. It will be an uncle or a cousin. you are all idiots and blame everyone but yourselves for the downfall of society

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  5. BelchSpeak Avatar
    BelchSpeak

    Yo,

    so what is it that you are suggesting with your brilliant analysis? That families should be broken up to prevent the possibility of molestation? That child molesters with Myspace accounts are not harming anyone or grooming their next victims?

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  6. lewis Avatar
    lewis

    The question really is this? What if that person your targeting is innocent by miscalculation or misjustice of law? When you do publish names of potential offenders, what if they are in reality innocent? There have been many documented cases in canada where people have been found guilty because of incompetent forensic expert witnesses who testified on behalf of the crown. Take several cases where a named pathologist testified on behalf of the crown. The accused alleged to have shaken the child to death. The pathologist also indicated the child was sexually abused. That pathologist later was found to be incompetent. 300 cases had be reviewed. 100 of those cases resulting in errors. The accused was judged by a jury of their peers. The judge sentenced the accused to 10 years in jail. Inditable offences in canada are subject to life on sex offender registry. Now tell me is that fair?.
    If the system is fair then tell me this. They have a registry for sex offenders. Yes this is a crime. Some sex offenders believe or not, did not molest children, did not rape anyone. Section 271. of the criminal cose classifies “sex offences as “unwanted touching, pat on the behind, sexual inuentdos, touching of shoulders. These people are also on the sex offender registry.This in nature is not as serious, but they classify all as one.Not very severe to some. The consequences of guilty of sex offender is minimum 10 years in provincial resgistry. Here is the case and point. When a person kills someone with vehicular homicide. Usually they get 3 years. They do their sentence and get out. Thats it, thats all. Whats more serious in terms of trauma. The mental trama asserted with a living person, or a person who life is taken away from the perpetrator of the vehicular homicide?. The latter i would presume. Do they have a registry for vehecular homicide person which is a more serious crime. The answer is no. The latter is a consequential serious crime.
    When a stock swindler takes billions of dollars thru fraud from seniors. Do they have a registry after he gets out of Jail for persons like this?. I am not indicating it is right that molesting people is allright. Contrary to this,I think a pedophile should be “if convicted more than once on more than one ocaasions to be sentenced to mimimum life without parole”.
    Secondly the sex offender registry needs to be tweaked so that a committee governs who should be on the list.
    Everybody has their opinion, but think of the other side of someone who was convicted of touching his secretaries shoulder, should they if found guilty, be subject to having their names aired in public . I just think its not time to enact a bill classifying all in the same group. Before any decision is made to enact this, there should be further dialoge to decide when in nature is a sex offender dangerous and then throw the key

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