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Accused in Welland sex assault of girl wants move to women's prison
While the Facebook page says his 'birth name' is Daniel Senecal, the name under his picture says he is Dani Senecal
Author of the article:Joe Warmington
Published Sep 10, 2025 • Last updated 1 day ago • 3 minute read
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Daniel Senecal, seen here, is in custody for an alleged sexual assault of a child in Welland.
Daniel Senecal, seen here, is in custody for an alleged sexual assault of a child in Welland. Photo by Submitted /Postmedia
The first clue that something could be up was noticed on Daniel Senecal’s Facebook page where under his photograph his pronouns are listed as “she/her.”
But he has been charged with sexual assault of a three-year-old girl in an alleged Aug. 31 incident in Welland as a he/him.
Now, Canada’s leader of the country’s official Opposition, Pierre Poilievre, says the accused wants to be moved from a male correctional institution to one that houses females.
“Appalling,” wrote Poilievre on X. “Now, this vile male monster charged with violently sexually assaulting a 3-year-old girl wants to be transferred to a women’s prison. “
Whether or not this application is made may come clearer Wednesday when the accused makes a court appearance in St. Catharines, where a protest is underway.
While the Facebook page says his “birth name” is Daniel Senecal, the name under his picture says he is Dani Senecal.
Daniel Senecal
A screenshot of Daniel Senecal Facebook page.
Former Toronto Police officer Ron Chhinzer, a federal Conservative candidate in the last election, also reposted a Toronto Crime Watch Facebook posting that said Senecal “is currently being held in segregation at the Niagara Detention Centre and has requested a transfer to the Vanier Centre for Women if he doesn’t get bail under the guise he is transgender. The Vanier Centre for Women is a female only correctional and remand facility.”
Time will tell how the day shakes out. This information that the accused identifies as female has been whispered since the arrest but has not been confirmed. It has yet to be released which lawyer is representing Senecal or what the plan of defence is. His hearing — in which he just spoke and was not on video — was put over Wednesday until Oct. 15 by video.
Like Poilievre, protesters were not waiting to find out. They plan to raise this concern at the courthouse in St. Cathartines as well as the overall outrage that Senecal is alleged to have sexually assaulted the child not long after receiving a lenient sentence of 18 months for a previous sexual assault on a 12-year-old boy.
As the Toronto Sun’s Bryan Passifiume reported last week, that boy’s mother was outraged that the person charged in the alleged attack on the little girl only served one year and landed out of jail just a short distance away from this home which police say he allegedly broke into as part of the vicious attack.
These are ugly times where the criminals are king and the victims are zero.
Poilievre and many others are upset. “Lock him up. Throw away the key,” the Conservative leader posted. “And ban biological men from women’s prisons. Period.”
Welland has had enough of this craziness.
People protest in St. Catharines outside the courthouse hearing the case of Daniel Seneca, who is charged with the alleged sexual assault of a three-year-old girl in an Aug. 31 incident in Welland. SUPPLIED/TORONTO SUN
People protest in St. Catharines outside the courthouse hearing the case of Daniel Seneca, who is charged with the alleged sexual assault of a three-year-old girl in an Aug. 31 incident in Welland. SUPPLIED/TORONTO SUN
Mayor Frank Campion has written justice authorities where he “demanded urgent reforms” including “stronger bail and sentencing laws, so that those charged with violent sexual crimes face the full weight of consequences, with no chance of early release in cases of extreme brutality” and that there is “the complete elimination of parole for crimes of this nature, ensuring offenders serve their entire sentences — without exception” and “stricter enforcement of the National Sex Offender Registry, so that no community is left unaware of who lives in their midst.”
In this case, the charges have not been tested in court.
Meanwhile, it will be interesting to see how the court handles the situation because there is extreme outrage in Niagara Region over this madness.
While every person is entitled to due process, it would be a spit in the face to the alleged victim and her family if bail is granted or if there is a transfer to a women’s facility.
jwarmington@postmedia.com
People protest in St. Catharines outside the courthouse hearing the case of Daniel Seneca, who is charged with the alleged sexual assault of a three-year-old girl in an Aug. 31 incident in Welland. SUPPLIED/TORONTO SUN
People protest in St. Catharines outside the courthouse hearing the case of Daniel Seneca, who is charged with the alleged sexual assault of a three-year-old girl in an Aug. 31 incident in Welland. SUPPLIED/TORONTO SUN
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While the Facebook page says his 'birth name' is Daniel Senecal, the name under his picture says he is Dani Senecal
Author of the article:Joe Warmington
Published Sep 10, 2025 • Last updated 1 day ago • 3 minute read
204 Comments
Daniel Senecal, seen here, is in custody for an alleged sexual assault of a child in Welland.
Daniel Senecal, seen here, is in custody for an alleged sexual assault of a child in Welland. Photo by Submitted /Postmedia
The first clue that something could be up was noticed on Daniel Senecal’s Facebook page where under his photograph his pronouns are listed as “she/her.”
But he has been charged with sexual assault of a three-year-old girl in an alleged Aug. 31 incident in Welland as a he/him.
Now, Canada’s leader of the country’s official Opposition, Pierre Poilievre, says the accused wants to be moved from a male correctional institution to one that houses females.
“Appalling,” wrote Poilievre on X. “Now, this vile male monster charged with violently sexually assaulting a 3-year-old girl wants to be transferred to a women’s prison. “
Whether or not this application is made may come clearer Wednesday when the accused makes a court appearance in St. Catharines, where a protest is underway.
While the Facebook page says his “birth name” is Daniel Senecal, the name under his picture says he is Dani Senecal.
Daniel Senecal
A screenshot of Daniel Senecal Facebook page.
Former Toronto Police officer Ron Chhinzer, a federal Conservative candidate in the last election, also reposted a Toronto Crime Watch Facebook posting that said Senecal “is currently being held in segregation at the Niagara Detention Centre and has requested a transfer to the Vanier Centre for Women if he doesn’t get bail under the guise he is transgender. The Vanier Centre for Women is a female only correctional and remand facility.”
Time will tell how the day shakes out. This information that the accused identifies as female has been whispered since the arrest but has not been confirmed. It has yet to be released which lawyer is representing Senecal or what the plan of defence is. His hearing — in which he just spoke and was not on video — was put over Wednesday until Oct. 15 by video.
Like Poilievre, protesters were not waiting to find out. They plan to raise this concern at the courthouse in St. Cathartines as well as the overall outrage that Senecal is alleged to have sexually assaulted the child not long after receiving a lenient sentence of 18 months for a previous sexual assault on a 12-year-old boy.
As the Toronto Sun’s Bryan Passifiume reported last week, that boy’s mother was outraged that the person charged in the alleged attack on the little girl only served one year and landed out of jail just a short distance away from this home which police say he allegedly broke into as part of the vicious attack.
These are ugly times where the criminals are king and the victims are zero.
Poilievre and many others are upset. “Lock him up. Throw away the key,” the Conservative leader posted. “And ban biological men from women’s prisons. Period.”
Welland has had enough of this craziness.
People protest in St. Catharines outside the courthouse hearing the case of Daniel Seneca, who is charged with the alleged sexual assault of a three-year-old girl in an Aug. 31 incident in Welland. SUPPLIED/TORONTO SUN
People protest in St. Catharines outside the courthouse hearing the case of Daniel Seneca, who is charged with the alleged sexual assault of a three-year-old girl in an Aug. 31 incident in Welland. SUPPLIED/TORONTO SUN
Mayor Frank Campion has written justice authorities where he “demanded urgent reforms” including “stronger bail and sentencing laws, so that those charged with violent sexual crimes face the full weight of consequences, with no chance of early release in cases of extreme brutality” and that there is “the complete elimination of parole for crimes of this nature, ensuring offenders serve their entire sentences — without exception” and “stricter enforcement of the National Sex Offender Registry, so that no community is left unaware of who lives in their midst.”
In this case, the charges have not been tested in court.
Meanwhile, it will be interesting to see how the court handles the situation because there is extreme outrage in Niagara Region over this madness.
While every person is entitled to due process, it would be a spit in the face to the alleged victim and her family if bail is granted or if there is a transfer to a women’s facility.
jwarmington@postmedia.com
People protest in St. Catharines outside the courthouse hearing the case of Daniel Seneca, who is charged with the alleged sexual assault of a three-year-old girl in an Aug. 31 incident in Welland. SUPPLIED/TORONTO SUN
People protest in St. Catharines outside the courthouse hearing the case of Daniel Seneca, who is charged with the alleged sexual assault of a three-year-old girl in an Aug. 31 incident in Welland. SUPPLIED/TORONTO SUN
WARMINGTON: Accused in Welland sex assault of girl wants move to women's prison
While the Facebook page says his 'birth name' is Daniel Senecal, the name under his picture says he is Dani Senecal.
Trump now has NRA standing up for transgender rights
The idea that trans people as a class should be denied their gun rights based on five confirmed trans perpetrators is ludicrous
Author of the article:Jonah Goldberg
Published Sep 13, 2025 • Last updated 8 hours ago • 4 minute read
Then former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to guests at the 2023 NRA-ILA Leadership Forum in Indianapolis, April 14, 2023.
Then former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to guests at the 2023 NRA-ILA Leadership Forum in Indianapolis, April 14, 2023. Photo by Scott Olson / Files /Getty Images
Given the tsunami of news demanding your attention, you might have missed an interesting trial balloon launched by the United States Department of Justice last week.
Officials briefed reporters on preliminary discussions among the department’s top brass to ban transgender people from buying guns. This was in the wake of last month’s horrendous Minneapolis church shooting by a deranged killer who identified as trans and who murdered two children and injured at least 17 others.
The first outlet to report on the talks was the very Trump-friendly Daily Wire.
The salient political issue, according to reporter Mary Margaret Olohan, was that, “The move would undoubtedly infuriate those on the left who believe that men can become women and women can become men – and that people who identify as transgender are not mentally ill but merely living in the wrong body.”
It’s certainly true that the trial balloon irked many on the left. GLAAD, the Human Rights Campaign and similar groups from the civil rights community were also appalled.
But among the bothered was a very different kind of civil rights group.
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People gather at a vigil at Lynnhurst Park after a shooting at the Annunciation Catholic School Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2025, in Minneapolis. Photo by Bruce Kluckhohn /AP
The National Rifle Association, which describes itself as America’s “longest-standing civil rights organization,” responded in a statement: “The NRA supports the Second Amendment rights of all law-abiding Americans to purchase, possess and use firearms. NRA does not, and will not, support any policy proposals that implement sweeping gun bans that arbitrarily strip law-abiding citizens of their Second Amendment rights without due process.”
Reading this Daily Wire exclusive, you might not have foreseen that gun rights groups would have a problem with the idea of stripping any category of people of a constitutional right. The issue didn’t come up. Phrases such as “gun rights” or “Second Amendment” go unmentioned. The news was about owning the libs by declaring all transgender people mentally ill and therefore barred from purchasing firearms.
Given that the NRA and other groups shot the Justice Department’s trial balloon out of the sky, it will probably go nowhere, not least because the move is wildly unconstitutional.
So why pay it any more attention?
For starters, whatever one thinks about transgenderism, or even the concept of “trans-terrorism” as pushed by the administration and various MAGA influencers, the idea that the executive branch can unilaterally deprive a class of people – no matter how disfavoured — of a constitutional right is worth notice.
For those who are hostile to gun rights, this point should still be obvious. Just replace the Second Amendment with the First. Can the president announce that trans people – or Muslims, Catholics, et al. – no longer have the right to speak or worship freely?
The rhetoric around “trans-terrorism” is, I think, evidence of a kind of hysteria that has gotten way ahead of the facts. I also think, like all moral panics, there is a kernel of truth to be found. There has been an increase of mass shootings by mentally disturbed trans individuals. But no matter how you crunch the numbers, the idea that trans people as a class should be denied their gun rights based on five confirmed trans perpetrators is ludicrous.
After all, according to some estimates, roughly one in four mass shooters have some military experience or training. That doesn’t mean military service makes one a mass shooter, and any attempt to deprive veterans of their gun rights has historically been met with massive pushback from conservatives.
Still, this short chapter is interesting for other reasons. The Trump administration is terminally online. It takes its cues from social media and sites such as the Daily Wire. That the Justice Department and the Daily Wire were so swept up in the feeding frenzy that it considered an obviously unconstitutional policy – even for clicks – would be surprising were it not so, well, unsurprising these days.
The NRA’s response is a sign that some in the Trump coalition still have the capacity to think beyond the horizon of a news cycle or the remainder of the Trump years. I have no clue what the leadership of the NRA thinks about trans people. But what they do know is that precedents established by a friendly president can be exploited by a future unfriendly one. A momentary victory in the culture war is not worth the price. (Indeed, for gun control activists, this might be remembered as a missed opportunity. Establishing the principle that presidents have sweeping authority to ban guns would have been a massive victory, though the political and moral cost would have been enormous, too.)
Tragically, none of this gets us any closer to any kind of solution to the problem of mass shootings. But maybe learning that such solutions won’t come from pandering to hysteria is a step in the right direction.
– Jonah Goldberg is editor-in-chief of The Dispatch and the host of The Remnant podcast. His X handle is @JonahDispatch
torontosun.com
The idea that trans people as a class should be denied their gun rights based on five confirmed trans perpetrators is ludicrous
Author of the article:Jonah Goldberg
Published Sep 13, 2025 • Last updated 8 hours ago • 4 minute read
Then former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to guests at the 2023 NRA-ILA Leadership Forum in Indianapolis, April 14, 2023.
Then former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to guests at the 2023 NRA-ILA Leadership Forum in Indianapolis, April 14, 2023. Photo by Scott Olson / Files /Getty Images
Given the tsunami of news demanding your attention, you might have missed an interesting trial balloon launched by the United States Department of Justice last week.
Officials briefed reporters on preliminary discussions among the department’s top brass to ban transgender people from buying guns. This was in the wake of last month’s horrendous Minneapolis church shooting by a deranged killer who identified as trans and who murdered two children and injured at least 17 others.
The first outlet to report on the talks was the very Trump-friendly Daily Wire.
The salient political issue, according to reporter Mary Margaret Olohan, was that, “The move would undoubtedly infuriate those on the left who believe that men can become women and women can become men – and that people who identify as transgender are not mentally ill but merely living in the wrong body.”
It’s certainly true that the trial balloon irked many on the left. GLAAD, the Human Rights Campaign and similar groups from the civil rights community were also appalled.
But among the bothered was a very different kind of civil rights group.
082825-APTOPIX_School-Shooting-Minneapolis
People gather at a vigil at Lynnhurst Park after a shooting at the Annunciation Catholic School Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2025, in Minneapolis. Photo by Bruce Kluckhohn /AP
The National Rifle Association, which describes itself as America’s “longest-standing civil rights organization,” responded in a statement: “The NRA supports the Second Amendment rights of all law-abiding Americans to purchase, possess and use firearms. NRA does not, and will not, support any policy proposals that implement sweeping gun bans that arbitrarily strip law-abiding citizens of their Second Amendment rights without due process.”
Reading this Daily Wire exclusive, you might not have foreseen that gun rights groups would have a problem with the idea of stripping any category of people of a constitutional right. The issue didn’t come up. Phrases such as “gun rights” or “Second Amendment” go unmentioned. The news was about owning the libs by declaring all transgender people mentally ill and therefore barred from purchasing firearms.
Given that the NRA and other groups shot the Justice Department’s trial balloon out of the sky, it will probably go nowhere, not least because the move is wildly unconstitutional.
So why pay it any more attention?
For starters, whatever one thinks about transgenderism, or even the concept of “trans-terrorism” as pushed by the administration and various MAGA influencers, the idea that the executive branch can unilaterally deprive a class of people – no matter how disfavoured — of a constitutional right is worth notice.
For those who are hostile to gun rights, this point should still be obvious. Just replace the Second Amendment with the First. Can the president announce that trans people – or Muslims, Catholics, et al. – no longer have the right to speak or worship freely?
The rhetoric around “trans-terrorism” is, I think, evidence of a kind of hysteria that has gotten way ahead of the facts. I also think, like all moral panics, there is a kernel of truth to be found. There has been an increase of mass shootings by mentally disturbed trans individuals. But no matter how you crunch the numbers, the idea that trans people as a class should be denied their gun rights based on five confirmed trans perpetrators is ludicrous.
After all, according to some estimates, roughly one in four mass shooters have some military experience or training. That doesn’t mean military service makes one a mass shooter, and any attempt to deprive veterans of their gun rights has historically been met with massive pushback from conservatives.
Still, this short chapter is interesting for other reasons. The Trump administration is terminally online. It takes its cues from social media and sites such as the Daily Wire. That the Justice Department and the Daily Wire were so swept up in the feeding frenzy that it considered an obviously unconstitutional policy – even for clicks – would be surprising were it not so, well, unsurprising these days.
The NRA’s response is a sign that some in the Trump coalition still have the capacity to think beyond the horizon of a news cycle or the remainder of the Trump years. I have no clue what the leadership of the NRA thinks about trans people. But what they do know is that precedents established by a friendly president can be exploited by a future unfriendly one. A momentary victory in the culture war is not worth the price. (Indeed, for gun control activists, this might be remembered as a missed opportunity. Establishing the principle that presidents have sweeping authority to ban guns would have been a massive victory, though the political and moral cost would have been enormous, too.)
Tragically, none of this gets us any closer to any kind of solution to the problem of mass shootings. But maybe learning that such solutions won’t come from pandering to hysteria is a step in the right direction.
– Jonah Goldberg is editor-in-chief of The Dispatch and the host of The Remnant podcast. His X handle is @JonahDispatch
JONAH GOLDBERG: Trump now has NRA standing up for transgender rights
Given the tsunami of news demanding your attention you might have missed an interesting trial balloon launched by the Department of Justice.
