Hard time for sex offenders?

It is about time that a sexual predator is finally looked upon as a dangerous offender. We always see cases were a molester, pedophile, or sexual offender gets a lenient sentence. Once sentenced, they just serve time and are out again without much rehabilitation.

In the rest of Canada, when sexual offenders are about to be released and located into a community, the community is informed that a dangerous criminal will start to live within their community. It should be the same here, because we live in Canada and because of the law of precedent.

The law of precedent states that if a court of law has made a ruling on a similar case, then that precedent should become law. It should not matter if that similar case was set in a different jurisdiction.

There was talk earlier that the territorial court was considering a case from a different jurisdiction that was similar. They really should follow that precedent.

In our criminal court system, there really is a need for consistency and predictability for cases of that nature. If a person is charged with something as atrocious as a sexual assault, we as a society should expect that the person will be incarcerated for a long time.

We as a society should feel safe from those predators, and no one else needs to be assaulted sexually. That is if the territorial court sets a precedent and sexual offenders start to serve the time for their wrongdoing.

Otherwise, more criminals of that nature will continue to prey on children, women, and the mentally challenged. It is bad enough that there are many people, too many for that matter, who never get reported to the authorities even if they had committed a sexual assault.

Let’s start here and start to try and protect those poor souls that get repeatedly assaulted, and those that have been assaulted or those that will get assaulted.

If those victims start to see that assailants will serve time for their criminal actions, maybe they could report those bastards to the authorities and see that justice is on their side.

Taima,

Peter Piugaatuk
Igloolik