This 60 year old man is six feet tall, with blue eyes. He’s passionate about gardening, computer programming and cooking. He’s a wee bit paunchy but active. He’s lonely and looking for friends, his online ad announces. He sounds like he could be someone’s Mr. McDreamy. Except, he’s left out a significant bit of background. Saul Betesh (inset) is one of Canada’s most infamous child sex killers, an imprisoned predator whose depraved crime shocked a generation.
Two Ontario mothers whose teenage daughters were the victims of violent crimes – one was raped and the other killed by a drunk driver – are outraged over their treatment by a supposedly victim-friendly federal bureaucracy. Corrections Canada refuses to allow the women to visit the prisons where the perpetrators are incarcerated until it drafts a national policy on the issue. Victims have routinely been allowed to tour penitentiaries across the country for more than a decade.
John Gallienne (inset), a relentless pedophile and former organist and choirmaster at an Anglican Church in Kingston, Ontario, has been given house arrest for his third set of convictions for sexually abusing young boys in his charge. Gallienne pleaded guilty in a Kingston courtroom Monday, June 6, to sex attacks decades ago on two former choirboys. He was first prosecuted for a 15-year campaign of sexual terror in 1990. Gallienne was convicted of abusing more than a dozen young boys, as young as eight. The latest charges were laid after former choirboys who did not come forward in 1990 went to police. The new convictions mean he’ll be stripped of a pardon he had obtained.
A tentative start date was set today for what is expected to be a sensational, marathon murder trial in Kingston, Ontario. Three members of a Montreal family, Mohammad Shafia, 57 (inset), his wife Tooba, 41, and his son Hamed, 20, will go on trial beginning Oct. 11 this year. Each is charged with four counts of first-degree murder. They are charged with killing four other family members, including three teenage Shafia sisters, who were discovered dead inside a car that was found June 30, 2009, submerged in a shallow canal in Kingston .
Police in Kingston, Ontario took extraordinary measures with the release from prison of an Internet sex predator considered one of the most prolific ever caught in Canada. A legal leash (read full document after jump) was slapped on Mark Bedford (inset) when he walked out of penitentiary a free man after three years behind bars. Bedford is forbidden from using a computer that can access the Internet, along with 22 other strict conditions.
Imprisoned child sex killer Saul Betesh says he’s prepared to bring on kidney failure by refusing to take insulin if federal prison authorities don’t acede to his demands, Cancrime has learned. Betesh has been in prison for more than 30 years, since he and two other men abducted, tortured, raped and murdered Toronto shoeshine boy Emanuel Jaques (inset) in 1977. The crime sparked national outrage and led to a massive cleanup of the sex trade in Canada’s biggest city.
Now we know why Richard Charles Joyce (inset), a 44-year-old imprisoned killer, cowered behind his coat collar last Friday as he was led from a prison escort van into a courthouse in Kingston, Ontario. Joyce, who is serving a life sentence for first-degree murder, is no longer a standup guy, no longer just a lifer in the prison subculture. Now, he’s the lowest of the low in the pecking order, a reviled child molester.
Killer Richard Joyce tried to hide his face from my camera and he refused to answer any questions as he shuffled into a Kingston, Ontario, courtroom today to make the surprise decision to abandon his faint hope application. As revealed in this previous post, Joyce now faces new charges related to the abduction and sexual assault of a nine-year-old girl 21 years ago, the year before he killed a Kingston woman during a gas bar robbery.
Science caught up to Richard Joyce, just as the imprisoned killer was about to go before a jury and plead for earlier freedom. Joyce, who is serving a life sentence for the 1991 murder of a gas bar operator in Kingston, Ontario, is expected to appear in a courtroom Friday morning to formally abandon his faint hope hearing that was scheduled to begin in two weeks, Cancrime has learned. In the afternoon, Kingston Police are expected to announce that they have charged Joyce in a 21-year-old unsolved sexual assault case involving a nine-year-old girl. The child was assaulted the year before Joyce and accomplice Terry Kennedy tortured and murdered Yvonne Rouleau, a 34-year-old mother of three.
The parole board has slapped strict release rules on a disgraced former Kingston, Ontario hockey coach who had sex with a teenage girl he coached. Daniel McLellan is being set free from prison this month after serving two thirds of his 45-month sentence. “The Board is also concerned that you have developed a new relationship with a female who has children at her home,” board members state, in a recent decision (read the entire doc after the jump). “Such a situation for you is not seen as appropriate and should not be allowed.”
Video of the Shafia family, who have since been convicted of murdering four family members, as they arrived in court in October 2010, when their case was at the pre-trial motion stage. (click image above to play video)
Managers at medium-security Joyceville penitentiary in Kingston, Ontario, bowed to a long list of inmate demands, including giving back control of spaces in the volatile prison where a race riot last year left one inmate near death (click image above to read the internal memo obtained by Cancrime). Management aceded to the demands of the inmates after they staged a one-week strike in which convicts refused to report to their prison jobs.
»Click here to read full post about last year's riot at Joyceville
»Click here to read about Josh Erdodi, the inmate who was savagely beaten during the riot
