A convicted internet predator who victimized two Alberta teens by trying to get them to perform sexual acts on camera has been given day parole after serving less than a year of his nine-year sentence.
Joshua Innes was 25 when he was sentenced last August after pleading guilty to two counts of child internet luring, two counts of extortion and one count of distributing child pornography. The charges stemmed from two cases, one involving a 14-year-old Airdrie, Alta., girl and the other, a 13-year-old Edmonton girl.
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/edmonton/st...-released.html
Wait.....WHAT? He gets 9 years. A judge actualy gives the guy 9 years and the friggen idiots at the parole board decide to let this guy out after 1 year?
OMG, our justice system is just getting beyond pathetic. The justification for releasing this guy is "They found that there was not reasonable grounds to believe that he would commit a violent offence." Really?? What about just another kiddie tickling offence? Thats ok? Yet a month earlier they say
"This type of offence is often prelude to actual in-person meetings and sexual contact. The board is quite concerned that this might have been the next step in your very well structured and planned scheme to groom vulnerable victims,"
WTF is going on? It is time to send a message to Ottawa to reduce the power of the parole board.