Think of victims’ rights

October 20, 2016 · 0 Comments

It has been 35 years since I left Peel Regional Police because of how messed up the judicial system was, and is.
I have always maintained that the system worries more about the rights of the bad guys than it does about the rights of the victims.
Case in point, a Toronto Sun story Oct. 6 about kidnapper Bartosz Gajewski, and it being suggested he be released into the public by the Ontario Review Board. This is very scary to Katherine Newman, who he kidnapped (or attempted to) and even the Crown is stating that Gajewski is not ready to be released.
So, I am suggesting if any Ontario Review Board or Parole Board ever finds an inmate ready to be released into the public, that they, the people finding the inmate ready for release, be made aware that should this inmate continue their crimes that put them in jail in the first place, that these Board members would be found responsible for these crimes as well, and then, and only then, would they perhaps re-think releasing violent offenders into our neighbors, as these members would no longer be able to hide from their terribly bad decisions.
Remember Paul Bernardo. Imagine what else he may have done had he been released. And this is not Gajewski’s first attack of Newman. And he also has all the weird and demented paraphernalia at his house that Bernardo did. So please, do the right thing here. Think of the victims’ rights for once.
Brian Perras,
Caledon