We Can't All Be Political Criminals

But we can sit there in silence as the legal system foists the worst sort of people upon us:

A Nova Scotia man who raped and murdered a 12-year-old Ontario girl, later decapitating her dead body in an attempt to hide evidence, has been released on parole and is living in the Halifax area.

According to Halifax Regional Police, 73-year-old high-risk offender Douglas Worth is living in Dartmouth.

Worth, originally from the Pictou County area of Nova Scotia, was released after serving 35 years of a federal life sentence for the December 1987 second-degree murder of Trina Campbell in Brampton, Ont.

National Post has contacted the Parole Board of Canada to obtain a copy of their decision to release Worth, who police say can have no contact with children or his victims, no drugs or alcohol, and must report all relationships.

 

Wow!

That really showed him! 

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Kenneth Lee did not know his heart was pumping blood freely into his chest cavity as he sat on the steps near the concrete parkette.

If he felt it, he did not complain about a stab wound, superficial, to his armpit or draw attention to the one to his left chest that was killing him.

Instead, he apologized to the two attending paramedics for being a burden as they came to check him over.

In just days he was meant to be home visiting his family — his mother, sister, brother-in law, nephew and two nieces — for Christmas. Though he had recently decided to leave his family home, living in shelters, they loved when he’d visit. He was the fun uncle. It meant pizza and chocolate milk. Maybe someone would pull out the Monopoly board again.

But Lee, 59, would never make it out of the operating room at St. Michael’s Hospital, several blocks from where he’d been stabbed. That’s where homicide Det. Rodney Benson found him, bleeding out.

It had been Benson’s turn to catch a case. The call that came from the operations centre would be unlike any other the six teams that work on rotating schedules in Toronto Police’s homicide unit have ever seen.

Benson learned Lee had been “jumped” by a group of teenage girls — a senior officer would later coin it as a “swarming.” Surveillance footage quickly recovered from the office tower at 1 University Avenue confirmed what a judge would later describe as a “vicious” attack while investigators learned the group of girls were gathered nearby at SickKids Hospital after one of their male friends had been accidentally stabbed during a play fight following the attack on Lee.

Benson arrived at the children’s hospital and watched as the last of eight girls was brought into a waiting police vehicle parked outside. After Lee was pronounced dead, all eight would be charged with second-degree murder.

That is how one of the most “extraordinary” youth prosecutions in the province’s history, the Crown attorney attached to the case throughout noted this week, began.

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The severity of the crime no longer matters.

Shoplifting is on par with murder and sexual assault. Ultimately, every crook – two-bit or sophisticated – walks out of bail court with a free pass thanks to the Trudeau government’s mind-boggling homage to stupidity, Bill C-75.

The bill decries that every accused should receive bail sooner rather than later. The offence does not matter.

Ontario Associate Minister of Auto Theft and Bail Reform, Zee Hamid, told the Toronto Sun that the bail law desperately needs to make a distinction between minor crimes and repeat and violent offenders.

“All we’re asking is for things to be put back together,” the Milton PC MPP said. “For some reason, the feds are not catching the public’s mood on violent crime.”

“Public safety is a pressing issue. Punishment and bail have to be meaningful,” Hamid said.

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Get them while they're young:

A Nanaimo, B.C., mother says she was frustrated to find information regarding drug use being displayed at a recent school event.

Ruth Taylor told Global News that while attending a school-sanctioned Grade 5 to 12 youth pride parade last Tuesday, she came across some cards being displayed at the AIDS Vancouver Island booth.

“A typical snorted dose is between 30 milligrams and 70 milligrams,” one of the cards read.

“These are for adults who are actively choosing to use drugs – like at a rave,” Taylor told Global News.

“This is not for kids.”

Taylor said she told the people at the booth that it looked like they were marketing drug use.

 

Dare I be that guy but you are not helping thinking that you can place guard-rails between moral depravity and drug use for grown-ups and then teaching kids the finer points of getting high.

It all goes.