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You can’t. Sometimes, until it is too late.

On the Book of Faces, in a local community group; an incident occurred and man, triggered some trauma.

I have 3 sons. Folks think that the danger is lessened when you have boys; folks would be wrong.

We had a pedophile teacher who was later, promoted to principal of 2 DIFFERENT local elementary schools and even though concerns/complaints were raised, he was either promoted or moved to keep things hush-hush (à la molesting clergy method) to a vice-principal position in a local high school, where…he was busted for downloading child porn. His case is unreal, talk about a failure of the system…

https://globalnews.ca/news/109951/convicted-pedophile-to-be-released/

The news article mentions one elementary school; he ended up molesting children in 3 ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS, in one as a teacher and 2 as a principal. My sons were in 2 of those schools…

One summer evening, one of my sons was outside of our home, with his friends, playing baseball. A man walked up (my son was about 16 or so at the time, played hockey, football (O line) and rugby; not a slight young man. He looked like he could turn you into a pretzel with one arm.

The man seemed rather odd – asked to watch the game. These were all good boys, friendly, helpful, oh for sure, they could be…up to stuff but by and large, they were terrific kids. They didn’t see an issue and let the guy hang around. Well, he seem to develop some sort of attachment, instantaneously, to my son. The game ended and the guy continued to hang around. My son wasn’t comfortable and told the guy he was going in the house, guy tried to follow him in…yeah, not happening.

Well, this guy kept showing up. He was told that enough was enough and he had to stop hanging around; he was creeping everyone out.

We went out shopping one Saturday and when we came home, our next door neighbours advised us that “some guy” had tried to break into our basement. They confronted him and he left. It was the strange man; he was stalking my son. Police were called. He was warned but didn’t listen. He kept returning to the house, he was seen around the high school (2 blocks from our home). Police were called again and he was arrested, this time. He was held on some sort of mental health mandate and sent to the Philipe-Pinel Institute, in Montréal, for observation.

Think we were safe? Think again. Phone calls started, multiple phone calls, every single day…the worst saw 33 calls, in 7 hours and FROM THE INSTITUTE!! Then letters….disgusting letters which showed an escalation of his delusions; he was now including my youngest son in his fantasies; my youngest was about 10 years old at the time. I lost my mind; I went to the police, with the letters, with the record of the phone calls and new charges were laid. We had to go to court.

He was remanded back to the institute. About 6 months later, my son saw him again, near our home. I called the prosecutors office and they informed me, he had been released. No?! Really? Any reason why we weren’t warned? No comment. Just told me if he tries anything to call the police….

I called them anyway. I learned he was sent back to Pinel, I would guess on new charges and he later moved to Toronto.

Talk to your kids. Establish a network of safe neighbours. Have a “code word” whenever someone other than yourself or your significant other is required to pick up your kids, from school or wherever. And of course, never talk to strangers – listen to their inner voice and scream “NO!!” if they feel in danger.

We need better laws to protect our kids.