When the police/attorneys drop charges against a sexual predator who abuses children...
And the reporters at the CBC don't even report his name.
Privacy reasons???
I don't know.
But it is super annoying when sex predators and pedophiles just get away with it and the newspapers don't even give their name, you know, to warn people about the sex predator.
In this case the sex predator does have a name:
Daryl Mahabir.
The CBC didn't list his name on the website, but we can list it here. His name is Daryl Mahabir, he is a 30-something old man from Toronto, and he likes to lure underage teenage girls into sex.
Not once, twice.
Unfortunately the crown attorneys didn't have enough evidence to proceed with the case so they dropped the charges against him. They know it was him, they know he did it, but they don't have enough evidence to get a conviction because he's a sneaky bastard.
However people have the right to know when a sex predator like Daryl Mahabir is living in their neighbourhood. People need to be warned.
So it is appalling that the CBC and similar news organizations remove the name of the man and allow him to go completely unpunished for his sex crimes. The police cannot do anything and the news media apparently don't like printing the names of sexual predators in an effort to warn the public.
The only times that the news media seems to report the name of the sex predator is if they're famous.
Like Kevin Spacey.
Or Peter Nygard.
Or Jian Ghomeshi.
Celebrities don't get a free ride when they're sex predators (but they do often escape justice by hiring expensive lawyers). Meanwhile average people - non-famous sex predators in this case - also escape justice because there is rarely enough evidence to convict them and smart predators like Daryl Mahabir have gamed the system in order to pervert justice and get away with it, knowing that there won't be enough evidence, the charges will be dropped, and the news media won't even bother to publish his name.
We live in a very unfair world.
And we've reached a point where sex predators like Daryl Mahabir know how to game the system, they skirt the meaning and intention of the law, abuse children and teenage girls, but then claim ignorance of the law when they often have a better understanding of the law than the lawyers do. They know what to do and what to say so that they get away with it.
You might even call them "professional sex predators".
Think about it. The sex predators who get away with it repeatedly will continue to do so. They are on the police radar, but the police are incompetent idiots who don't know how to get enough evidence for a conviction.
And so professional sex predators like Daryl Mahabir continue to walk free. The only ones we succeed in getting convictions for are those that we actually succeed in locking up because they were dumb enough to make mistakes leading to a conviction.
The other issue, ignoring the faulty news media, is that people only get registered as a sex offender if there is a conviction. If there is insufficient evidence then the police don't even put the person's name in the sex offender registry as a "possible sex offender". Instead there is nothing.
So if the sex predator moves around, from city to city, then they could leave a trail of many abused children and never see any justice. Never get caught. Never even get a slap on the wrist or a bad reputation for their misdeeds.
And this happens all the time. 99% of sex predators never get convicted. 99% is a huge number, but we know it is accurate because 99% of sexual abuse victims never even report the crime to the police. So automatically most predators never see justice at all.
And less than 10% ever get convicted. So we're looking at 99.9% of sex predators never being convicted, and only about 0.1% actually being convicted.
That is appalling. It is disgusting. It leads to sex predators who continue to walk free.
And we don't even publish their names in newspapers.
