Sex Abuse Charges Dropped Against Toronto Man

 

You know what is annoying?

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.

2 Ohio football players convicted of raping 16-year-old

Ohio - Two members of Steubenville’s celebrated high school football team were found guilty Sunday of raping a drunken 16-year-old girl, and Ohio’s attorney general warned the case isn’t over, saying he is investigating whether coaches, parents and other students broke the law, too.

Trent Mays, 17, and Ma’Lik Richmond, 16, were sentenced to at least a year in juvenile prison in a case that has rocked this Rust Belt city of 18,000 and led to allegations of a cover-up to protect the Steubenville High team, which has won nine state championships. Mays was ordered to serve an additional year for photographing the underage girl naked.

They can be held until they turn 21.

The two broke down in tears after a Juvenile Court judge delivered his verdict. They later apologized to the victim and the community, Richmond struggling to speak through his sobs.

“My life is over,” he said as he collapsed in the arms of his lawyer.

The crime, which took place after a party last summer, shocked many in Steubenville because of the seeming callousness with which other students took out their cellphones to record the attack and gossiped about it online. In fact, the case came to light via a barrage of morning-after text messages, social media posts and online photos and video.

“Many of the things we learned during this trial that our children were saying and doing were profane, were ugly,” Judge Thomas Lipps said.

Immediately after the verdict, Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine said he will convene a grand jury next month to investigate whether anyone else should be charged. Noting that 16 people refused to talk, many of them underage, DeWine said possible offenses to be investigated include failure to report a crime.

“This community desperately needs to have this behind them, but this community also desperately needs to know justice was done and that no stone was left unturned,” he said.

Among those who have been interviewed are the owners of one of the houses where parties were held that night, the high school principal, and the football team’s 27 coaches, many of them volunteers.

Text messages introduced at the trial suggested the head coach was aware of the rape allegation early on. DeWine said coaches are among officials required by state law to report child abuse. The coach and the school district have repeatedly declined to comment.

Mays and Richmond were charged with penetrating the West Virginia girl with their fingers, first in the back seat of a moving car after a mostly underage drinking party on Aug. 11, and then in the basement of a house.

“They treated her like a toy,” prosecutor Marianne Hemmeter said.

Prosecutors argued that the victim was so intoxicated she couldn’t consent to sex that night, while the defense contended the girl realized what she was doing and was known to lie.

The girl testified she could not recall what happened but woke up naked in a strange house after drinking at a party.

 “It was really scary,” she said. “I honestly did not know what to think because I could not remember anything.”

NOTE

Cellphones are awesome. Now rapists can easily make evidence that helps in their conviction.

Cop convicted of sexual assault at Toronto massage parlour

A judge has convicted a Toronto police constable of sexually assaulting a female masseuse while he was supposed to be inspecting the spa where she worked.

Detective-Constable Mandip Sandhu’s claim that he was somehow rendered helpless while the much smaller masseuse forced herself on him and performed oral sex defies common sense, provincial court Justice John Moore said Tuesday.

The masseuse was roughly half his size and weight.

Mandip Sandhu, the married, 37-year-old officer testified in October 2012 that it was a “lapse of judgment” to submit to a sexual advance from the licensed masseuse at the North York massage parlour in June 2010.

“I was shocked,” he testified. “I didn’t expect anything like that to happen, but I didn’t stop it.”

The 44-year-old woman, whose identity is protected by a publication ban, testified Sandhu made her perform the sex act, and then warned her not to tell anyone.

She said she spat onto a face cloth afterward. The DNA on the cloth matched Sandhu’s, the court heard.

Defence lawyer Harry Black argued the masseuse and spa owner concocted the allegations to ward off a police investigation.

But the judge said he accepted her evidence she “was intimidated by the fact that he is a police officer” and unwillingly submitted to his demand for oral sex.

The officer was obviously lying when he claimed the tiny masseuse physically forced him.

Prosecutor Peter Scrutton said outside court it took a lot of courage for the victim to complain to police. “It’s fortunate that she did. It’s fortunate that the Toronto Police Service and SIU (Special Investigations Unit) conducted exemplary investigations.”

The 11-year police veteran remains suspended with pay. He returns for sentencing on April 30th 2013.

 Sexual assaults on women who work in massage parlours and Toronto escort agencies are pretty common. Most sexual assaults are not reported however, as many women who work in the sex industry don't trust the police.

Christopher Paul Neil gets 5 years in Thai prison

THAILAND - It's been over a year since an international manhunt caught and arrested Christopher Paul Neil, who is now facing another jail sentence. The 33-year-old Canadian school teacher from British Columbia has been convicted of a second case of sexual assault in Thailand. The attack on a nine-year-old boy landed him five years in prison.

He was first arrested October 19, 2007 by Interpol after a lengthy investigation that used complicated techniques to "unswirl" blurred Internet photos that showed him allegedly engaging in sex acts with young boys ages 13 and 9.

Back in August, Neil pleaded guilty to sexually abusing a 13-year-old boy, an admission that carried a three-year sentence. The 13-year-old and the nine-year-old are brothers.

Neil had been living and working as a teacher in Asia since 2000, including stints in South Korea, Thailand and Vietnam.

Back in Canada? Good riddance. Some of us would prefer to see sex offenders sent to a penal colony in the arctic circle.

Sex abuse protest at Saint Paul University

CANADA/RELIGION - In Ottawa victims of clergy sex abuse protested outside Saint Paul University yesterday, angry that a priest convicted of molesting an eight-year-old would get $60,000 to study canon law.

The demonstrators with the Association of Victims of Priests hoisted their signs as they huddled into the icy wind on Main Street. One carried a crucifix with "Sex Abuse" on it; another called for all convicted pedophiles to be booted out of the Catholic church.

Sex offender Rev. Philippe de Maupeou left Ottawa in September, quitting his courses after just a few weeks. He now lives in a supervised ecclesiastical residence under the jurisdiction of the Montreal archdiocese.

Father de Maupeou pleaded guilty in 2006 to touching an eight-year-old on the breast and genitalia during a camping trip. The 48-year-old priest served in Montreal's Plateau Mont Royal district with Communauté du Pain de Vie, a religious commune including priests and devout Catholic families.

After the child came forward, years after the incident, Father De Maupeou was not allowed to be near children unsupervised, nor could he live with his commune. The church has otherwise not meted out any punishment to Father de Maupeou.

However, Carlo Tarini, spokesman for the victims, said the church still doesn't understand how serious the offences are and France Bédard, who founded the victims' association and organized yesterday's demonstration, said "Are Canada's bishops so hard up for recruiting priests that they can't readily fire convicted pedophiles and other sex abusers?"

Ms. Bédard has previously launched a civil action against the church, saying a priest raped and impregnated her when she was 17. The priest died one month before he was to face criminal charges.

Canada to investigate sex abuse by soldiers

CANADA - The Canadian army will conduct a formal review of whether Canadian soldiers were ordered to turn a blind eye to the sexual abuse of boys by Afghanistan security forces in Kandahar. The boys are known as "bacha bereesh", boys without beards, teenage boys who dress up as girls and dance for male patrons at parties in northern Afghanistan.

It's an age old practice that has led to some of the boy dancers being turned into sex slaves by wealthy and powerful patrons, often former warlords, who dress the boys up as girls, shower them with gifts and keep them as "mistresses". Afghan police are battling to crackdown on the practice which has angered Islamic clerics who say those involved should be stoned for sodomy, forbidden under Islamic law.

The allegation that Canadian soldiers were told to "ignore" incidents of sexual assault involving their allies was leveled by a military chaplain last June in a report to her brigade commander.

The chaplain, Jean Johns, says she counseled a Canadian soldier who said he witnessed a boy being raped by an Afghan soldier in late 2006 or early 2007.

In a statement, the president of the board, Brig.-Gen. Glenn Nordick, says his eight-member panel will examine the claims to see what may have occurred at a forward operating base 20 kilometres from Kandahar.

"We will determine whether the allegations can be substantiated and whether such incidents were reported by the chain of command or other Canadian Forces networks," said Nordick.

The investigation will attempt to determine whether any other separate incidents might have occurred, and whether any Canadian soldiers were involved in such incidents.

The chaplain, who counsels soldiers with post traumatic stress disorder, wrote her report in March of this year, but had received no response until three months later when the allegations were made public.

Several other Canadian Forces chaplains say they have heard similar claims, but the Defence Department declined to investigate because no Canadian soldier had filed a formal complaint.

Afghanistan's ambassador in Ottawa welcomed the investigation, but stressed the government of President Hamid Karzai was expecting to work alongside the Canadian military and that any criminal activity would be dealt with by his country's justice system. "At this point, these are allegations and we all need to gather facts," said Omar Samad in an interview.

"I would like to see us get to the bottom of this. I would like to find out what may have happened and see how we can deal with such issues. We want to be able to deal with this using the full force of law."

Whispers of sexual abuse allegedly perpetrated by Afghan soldiers against young boys have been commonly heard among Canadian troops, with many referring to such incidents as "man love Thursdays." There's even rumours of some Canadians taking part.

But the evidence has been overwhelmingly anecdotal, with most soldiers telling embedded journalists they've never witnessed such acts. Thus far there has only been one case brought to the public record, but there are doubtlessly more.

A Canadian soldier, who served in Afghanistan between September 2006 and February 2007 was quoted by a Toronto newspaper earlier this year as saying he heard an Afghan National Army soldier abusing a young boy and then saw the boy afterwards with visible signs of rape trauma.

Cpl. Travis Schouten now suffers from severe post-traumatic stress disorder.

The board of inquiry, which differs substantially from a military police investigation, is not expected to report until next spring.

David Statham, a retired senior staff officer at National Defence headquarters, said inquiry boards are not assembled over minor allegations or rumours. "They're not convened over something trifling," said the former naval commander, who worked with retired colonel Michel Drapeau, a noted military legal expert. "They've got some reason, more than just a suspicion."

Boards of inquiry - known by their acronym BOIs within the military - have a broad scope, looking not only at specific incidents but systemic failures of military policy and procedure.

Bad Memories

For sexual abuse survivors its the memories that haunt us the most.

This blog will be dedicated to tracking those bad memories, in particular for Canadians, and also reaching out to other Canadians to share their bad memories, how they dealt with their own history of sexual abuse, police involvement/divorces/etc. and how we eventually move on with our lives.

We will also be posting news and statistics about sexual abuse in Canada or by Canadians overseas.