Child sex offender Donnie Snook granted day parole

[CdnFox]

Child sex offender Donnie Snook granted day parole

"We understand fully that this is a case that has caused — and rightfully so — shock and alarm to the community," Ian Mackenzie said as he delivered the decision on behalf of the two-member board, reversing a rejection of Snook's application last summer.

Snook attended the virtual hearing from Mission Institution, a federal prison in Mission, B.C., where he is currently in minimum security.

"Even though these offences occurred many years ago, there were many, many victims," Mackenzie told him.

His sentence doesn't expire until November 2030, but he became eligible for day parole in December 2018 and full parole in June 2019.

More of Justin's Canadian justice at work

[ExFlyer]

Convicted prisoners were released on day parole and parole during Harpers tenure as well.

Nothing new, nothing unprecedented

Edited May 19, 2023 by ExFlyer

[CdnFox]

6 minutes ago, ExFlyer said:

Convicted prisoners were released on day parole and parole during Harpers tenure as well.

And he passed laws to reduce that. Including ones like the consecuitve sentance law which the libs have now let the courts erase with narry a whimper.

6 minutes ago, ExFlyer said:

Nothing new, nothing unprecedented

Very new.  Not quite unprecedented but pretty close. ( that word gets brutally overused) Historically a criminal has to prove he deserves bail before they let him out. So if he can't give the court reason to believe he'll be safe then he doesn't get it.  Now the court has to prove he won't be safe or they must release him.  That is VERY much against precedence in such matters.

Trudeau passed a specific law specifically to make sure more violent criminals were released on bail. As a direct result, more violent people have been released on bail.  And predictably they are committing more violent crimes once they are released.

Sorry - can't play the 'well they did it too' game here, this is new and it's dramatic.

[ExFlyer]

1 hour ago, CdnFox said:

And he passed laws...

Sorry - can't play the 'well they did it too' game here, this is new and it's dramatic.

Don't have to play. They did.

[Michael Hardner]

2 hours ago, ExFlyer said:

Convicted prisoners were released on day parole and parole during Harpers tenure as well.

Nothing bad that happened during Harper was his fault.  Everything bad that happened during Trudeau is his fault.

[PIK]

5 hours ago, Michael Hardner said:

Nothing bad that happened during Harper was his fault.  Everything bad that happened during Trudeau is his fault.

Not really, it's the soft liberal justice system that is the problem. They don't want people incarserated. 

[CdnFox]

6 hours ago, Michael Hardner said:

Nothing bad that happened during Harper was his fault.  Everything bad that happened during Trudeau is his fault.

Harper tightened bail laws.  Justin relaxed them

But sure- lie to yourself if it's easier than facing the truth. It's kind of your thing as a liberal.

[myata]

One comment on the justice in general. I don't think there's such thing as perfectly just law because every application is unique and the public view of justice system as being just is a sum of the initial perception; the act, functioning of the system; and the outcome. If the society does not see the decisions produces by the system as just and that means, not in the least, fair, competent and understandable, does not understand how and why it functions, the trust to the system as a whole is eroded and then, fewer decisions could be trusted and so on. A one way road, essentially.

Liberal tweaking with the system, voodoo passes of the judges, repeated offenses by recidivist criminals erode public trust in the justice system as a whole. In their stratospheric detachment from the reality the governments just keep forgetting that their sole raison d'etre is to serve the society, not pursue some abstract ideals of universal goodness. Why? They don't need to remember. Because they can.