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Man sentenced to time served on child luring charge:

 In the 3rd story I’ve posted recently about another Canadian internet child predator gets a slap on the wrist. In this case less than a slap on the wrist. 

41-year-old Christopher Nickel of St. Catharines, Ontario was given time served for trying to sexually lure a teen girl through the eBay owned Kijiji who was advertising for baby sitting and house cleaning.

Nickel spent 5 months in jail while awaiting trial then spent some time on house arrest.

Judge Joseph Nadel said this about Nickel…

Nadel told Nickel he wasn’t sending him back to jail, “and you should be grateful,” he said, adding a year “is a good sentence.”

Nadel ordered strict probationary terms, including Nickel’s registration in the sex-offender registry, plus prohibitions on Internet use and being around minors.

He also scolded Nickel, telling him to find work and get any needed counselling.

“What makes us different from the animals is our ability to be self-aware (and) control our animal urges,” he told him.

“You’ve got three years to turn your life around and get some help in doing so,” Nadel said.

“I’d be very grateful not to have to see you again as an accused person.”

If you didn’t want to see him again as an accused person then you should have sent him to jail.

Sex offender pleads guilty in kids’ case:

Canada, I know you have a reputation to maintain as the friendly polite country but do you really have to extend that to child molesters?

Case in point, the story of 40-year-old Daryl Koluk of Hamilton, Ontario. In 2001 he was sentenced to a mere 6 months for sexually abusing children. He was already on the sex offender registry when he took an ad out on the eBay owned Kijiji last year advertising help cleaning his apartment. So who answered the ad? A 12-year-old boy and his two friends, that’s who.

You know I’m all about teaching kids the value of a dollar, or in this case a Loonie, but who the hell lets their kids go clean the apartment of some stranger from a website?

Anyway, Koluk offered the kids more money of they would lay on his bed. One of the boys agreed and Koluk gave him oral sex for $40. It happened four more times as well earning the victim $200. And oh yeah, they did this in front of the other kids.

Police found a picture of one of the victims who was 11 and I quote “shown in bondage gear, with a ball stuffed in his mouth, a steel collar around his neck and his body tied up with rope.”

Koluk pleaded guilty to child molestation charges and what do you think he got for his troubles? He was sentenced to only four years in prison.

Now I’m not usually one to believe in conspiracies but why do these ridiculously short sentences keep getting handed out to dangerous child molesters. Is it maybe because this kind of wretched behavior goes on within the walls of the private lives of government officials and they don’t want to damn themselves to a long prison term? And I don’t just mean Canada either. It also goes on in the US, the UK, Australia and most of the so called civilized world.

These types of officials should be investigated but to coin a cliche who watches the watchmen?