He’s also 39, will now be unemployed from what was a pretty well paid job with a pension, and is basically done as soon as someone googles his name. So the lasting consequences are pretty fitting.
Yeah there's that. He used a key he secretly kept and let himself into a womans house where he sexually assaulted her for an hour and a half ignoring her pleas to leave.
In a just world he'd be in the general population.
Yes, but he can only be sentenced for what he was convicted of, and that was a single guilty plea for breach of trust. We can have opinions about crown not moving forward with other charges - and believe me, I do - but at the end of the day the sentencing can’t be based on offences crown did not prove in court, or which the accused didn’t plead guilty to.
I agree. I trust you’re on side with expanding physical courtroom space, hiring more judges, prosecutors and court staff, building more remanding centers and hiring more correctional staff? All of those will realistically have to happen to reduce the protective impact of plea deals on ‘the system’.
Yup. Starving the legal system is a ridiculous approach. Much like wanting corrections to focus on punishment rather than rehabilitation. The latter is more expensive, but also of greater benefit to society.
Or maybe he's an exceptional case. There's a growing number of CAF vets in my agency. Our psych screening is pretty thorough. We're about 8,500 uniforms strong and the ones I've crossed paths with are all solid folk, so far.
I would be interested in some sort of large (anonymized of course) cohort study of CAF vets who’ve moved into public safety professions and whether there are any statistically significant observation as to the likelihood of being involved in any sort of founded misconduct issues. RCMP/CSC/CBSA would probably provide a pretty decently large sample for such.
When I applied to federal LE I was shocked at the amount of attention given to my psychological wellbeing compared to when I joined/served in the CAF. I was even more shocked during my psych eval interview at the topics the psychologist focused on which, in my opinion, had no bearing at all on the job I was being hired to do. And he was creepy as hell!
It might be. 'PTSD" is tossed around pretty liberally these days, particularly in court sentencing submissions. I don't think there is a solid or generally accepted set of parameters for the Disorder, at least outside of the medical community. It can range from experiencing something no person should experience to breaking up with a boyfriend.
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I dont want to give any site visitors ideas but I'll go out on a limb and say it's not incredibly difficult to get a PTSD diagnosis from doctors. I could talk someone through it quite easily (and to the tune of $100,000 or so from VAC).
