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Originally Posted by afc wimbledon
I think part of the problem is that charging him for more offences now after he had already admitted guilt and been sentanced for as many offences as presumably he could remember back in the 90's gets a bit dodgy legally, in fact I'm suprised his lawyer didn't make more of it.
I wish nothing but a painfull long death at the end of a broom in the prison washrooms for the scumbag but there is a general principle that you should be able to plead out to your crimes get sentanced and then make a fresh start in life and this really goes against that in a big way, if he was a car thief rather than a child molestor I would be pissed they were doing this.
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That's pretty much how it goes. Prison in Canada isn't meant to punish, but to correct. Unfortunately, in most cases, it doesn't really succeed at doing either and those sentenced to long prison terms eventually come out more likely to re-offend than if they weren't locked up at all. To me that's the biggest failing of our Justice system these days. It rarely helps the victims and quite often fails to correct the person who committed the crime's behaviour. It's a lose-lose situation.