Incomprehensible Justice
July 24, 2007 · By Shane Edwards
REGINA — After kidnapping two Prairie boys last summer, notorious pedophile Peter Whitmore made them sex slaves, even chaining the 10-year-old up and ordering the child to call him “master.”Those sordid and disturbing details and others about the boys’ captivity last July were made public for the first time Monday in a Regina court room shortly before Mr. Whitmore, 36, was handed a life sentence with no chance of parole for seven years.
Ugh. Only seven years? Come on. But it gets worse.
The sentence was part of a controversial plea bargain struck by the Crown, and supported by the defence, that in exchange for Mr. Whitmore pleading guilty on all 12 charges, he would not be subjected to a dangerous offender application that could have kept the Ontario native in jail indefinitely.
How does as beast like this NOT get a dangerous offender status? But wait. It gets worse.
many… have voiced concern that the punishment isn’t harsh enough for a man whose sex crimes against children go back to 1989.
The guy’s got a 20 year old rap sheet of sex offences against children??? What is going on here?
 Judge McLellan described Mr. Whitmore’s crimes as “repulsive and sickening.”
Glad you disapprove… but…
He said the plea bargain spared the two victims a trial and potentially having to testifying. “They would have been victims once again,” he said.
So let me get this straight. You have a monster of a pedophile on your hands. He has an 18 year long rap sheet, demonstrated a clear pattern of behaviour, has proven that he is resistant to rehabilitation, but you let him have parole in 7 years and give him no “Dangerous Offender” status, because you want to spare his victims.
Rephrased, you want to let him abuse MORE children in 7 short years because you want to spare his victims from having to testify against him?
Just to point out the obvious here:
He can _apply_ for parole after 7 years. That by no means implies he’s going to _get_ parole at that time.
Further, it is a life sentence - meaning that he will be subject to supervision for the rest of his life. (How effective that is may be another topic)
Someone should shoot the bastard. Take a jail sentence for the team. Hell, it’ll be free accomodation and schooling in there, and you’d have done the country a service that our timid, confused and intellectually bankrupt justice system now refuses to provide.
Knowing how many stupid people we have in the justice system, I’ll bet that some parole board will set him free seven years from now (and their hearts will bleed for him, with violins playing in the background).
Also consider this: Conrad Black will probably end up spending more time in jail than this pervert.