Unfrigginbelievable

[zzontar]

http://globalnews.ca/news/2849410/canad ... 31851042=1

Larry Takahashi, one of Canada’s most notorious rapists, has been granted day parole in the Vancouver area.

Takahashi, dubbed the ‘Balaclava Rapist’, was known for breaking into homes and sexually assaulting women while wearing a ski mask. Edmonton Police said at the time that it was likely he assaulted over 100 women before being arrested in 1983.


In 1984, he faced 70 charges involving 22 women but was only convicted of 14 charges, including four counts of rape, sexual assault with a weapon, and six counts of disguise with intent.

He was given three life sentences.

Documents from the Parole Board of Canada say Takahashi used a knife and other sharp objects to threaten his victims, and in one instance threatened the infant child of a victim.

He also sexually assaulted a victim in front of her children and another while her family members slept in the next room.

The documents say he also used a rope on at least one victim and repeatedly punched another in the face.

He has admitted to raping other victims but it is unknown how many.


The Parole Board says multiple psychiatric assessments showed Takahashi has a tendency to be “selfish, callous, and remorseless.”

They deem him to be a moderate-to-high risk for sexual and violent re-offending. Though he admits he continues to have fantasies about raping women, the Parole Board believes he is able to “manage them.”

Takahashi, now 63, was previously released on parole in 2013 and was supposed to spend 60 days in a half-way house in Victoria. He was sent back to prison early after only a few weeks.

The incident was the latest in several parole violations that sent him back behind bars. In August 2005 while on day parole, Takahashi met with a convicted sex offender in Vancouver and was ordered back to prison.

In a written statement to Global News, the Correctional Service Canada (CSC) said:

CSC’s mission is to contribute to the safe reintegration of offenders through risk assessment, community supervision, appropriate accommodation, and effective correctional programs and interventions.

There is a comprehensive period of pre-release planning undertaken before an offender is returned to the community. During this period, Parole Officers develop a community supervision plan for the offender outlining the measures required for their safe return to the community. In this plan the types of programs and services required are also outlined, including the need for accommodation.

Restrictions of his parole include the conditions that he does not consume alcohol or drugs, follows his treatment plan, not use pornography, stay away from any college or university campus, avoid his victims, and respect curfew. He also must not pick up or drive any female passengers in a car or use computers or the internet.

This is beyond insanity and once again, they should publish the judges name! This part really gets me:

Parole Officers develop a community supervision plan for the offender outlining the measures required for their safe return to the community.

For "their" safe return? Why are they so worried about his safety and not the safety of all the other women he intends to rape? THIS IS BEYOND ACCEPTABLE!

[Queen K]

Mind numbing isn't it Zzontar?

Between this and that other threat to humanity who just got four months for unspeakable evil, the Canadian INjustice system is completely broken.

[Veovis]

*removed*

Well let's hope HE at least feels safe.

I agree, just wow.

[fluffy]

Just to play devil's advocate here, are we assuming that our correctional system is such a failure that 32 years of imprisonment cannot result in any form of rehabilitation ?

[Smurf]

YES, I do not believe this man should ever be out and I would think any female in the area should be scared. He should have been rehabilitated with an injection years ago. I just need to look and the frequency of repeats when these people are let out to give me the feeling our system is a serious failure. I have a wife, daughters, granddaughters and a great granddaughter and do not need someone out there that is a risk to re offend. I worry for any female, period.

[Fancy]

Just to play devil's advocate here, are we assuming that our correctional system is such a failure that 32 years of imprisonment cannot result in any form of rehabilitation ?

Any form of rehabilitation isn't good enough if he is likely to reoffend again and does not obey his parole conditions.

[bumblebuns]

Mr. Bumble the beadle said, so eloquently in Oliver Twist: "The law is a *bleep*." True then as it is now.

[bumblebuns]

It seems that the moderator, real or electronic, has bleeped my quote from Charles Dickens. Mr. Bumble said "The Law is a
A5S" There, is that better? Methinks the bleeper too is a A5S.

[ferri]

LOL nothing personal. It had to be added to keep people from calling each other that lovely word. Since you are quoting Charles Dickens I'll let the workaround go. This time. :)

[Ccrider]

In our society, there is no justice! Neither for the victims of crime, or for the perpetrators of crime.

Victims lead lifetime sentences of anguish, pain, guilt, financial hardship, or some other form of punishment for the crime perpetrated against them. Our justice system does nothing for them.

Perpetrators however, receive the highest regard from our justice system. Money is no object in the provision of care and support to these individuals.

Our justice system is set up to serve the criminals, the lawyers, and the judges; and to treat the victims of crime and the police who are trying to protect them, with indifference at best.

[zzontar]

Mind numbing isn't it Zzontar?

Between this and that other threat to humanity who just got four months for unspeakable evil, the Canadian INjustice system is completely broken.

Yes, but I'm thinking that another judge could have given him a harsh sentence, in which case the individual judges should be held accountable and not the system, except the system allows for this to happen.

[zzontar]

Even more unbelievable is that there are people who think this isn't as bad as someone who had a few drinks and drove once but was caught. Not that that's okay, but would you rather have someone who did that or sexually assaulted over 100 women running around or for a neighbour?

[Sige]

http://www.castanet.net/news/Kelowna/170435/Rapist-to-call-Kelowna-home

grrrrrr

[zzontar]

http://www.castanet.net/news/Kelowna/170435/Rapist-to-call-Kelowna-home

grrrrrr

Just great, and they say he's likely to reoffend. Memorize this face!

[perspicacious]

It's crazy