Why are high-risk sex offenders still being released?
Author of the article:Brad Hunter
Published Aug 26, 2024 • 3 minute read
EVIL PERSONIFIED: Pedo child killer Joseph Fredericks.
The late pedo child killer Joseph Fredericks.
Joseph Fredericks had been out of the joint just two months.
Unreformed, unrepentant, his twisted perversions unquenched.
Fredericks had a sexual penchant for children. He had been sprung after serving two-thirds of a five-year sentence for sexually assaulting a 10-year-old boy. There were scores of other victims along the way.
Murder victim Christopher Stephenson.
Murder victim Christopher Stephenson.
On July 18, 1988, the evil pedophile — never deemed a dangerous offender — stalked 11-year-old Christopher Stephenson through Shopper’s World and then, using a knife, he pounced.
Christopher’s body was found the next day — Father’s Day — in a Brampton field.
Today, cops will often make a public announcement to let the public know there’s a violent sexual offender in their midst. But this seems like it’s the only thing they can do given the mountain of obstacles they face in courtrooms, at the Supreme Court and in Ottawa’s corridors of power.
Now it’s another pedophile whose name has been emblazoned in newspaper headlines and newscasts.
Convicted sex offender Joseph Faulkner, 31, is living in Brampton after being released from custody on Wednesday, Aug. 21, 2024.
Convicted sex offender Joseph Faulkner, 31, is living in Brampton after being released from custody on Wednesday, Aug. 21, 2024.
His name is Joseph Faulkner. He is 31 years old and shares Fredericks’ sexual bent.
Peel Regional Police put out a warning that Faulkner is a high-risk sex offender and he’s back on the streets of Brampton and Mississauga. Faulkner, cops noted, poses a “danger to children.”
We’ve been down this road before with Faulkner, who went down on sex charges and breaching his conditions. He is now bound by two probation orders.
As most of us know, probation orders aren’t worth the paper they’re written on. These orders are generally devoid of consequences. A perusal of the police blotter tells us this.
Faulkner’s conditions dictate he can’t be around any children under 16 unless accompanied by an adult approved by his parole supervisor. He is at an “elevated risk of re-offending,” cops stated.
In 2023, Peel police put out a similar warning. He had just finished another stretch for sex crimes. About 11 minutes after he was released, he was back in custody for theft and breaching his conditions.
And now Faulkner is back in the saddle.
Even though cops issued the warning, they reminded us that we should all remember that “his rights are guaranteed under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms Act.” The April 2023 warning was nearly identical.
Someone thought horseback lessons with kids was a good idea for Taylor Dueck.
But at least we got one. RCMP in Kelowna wanted to put out an alert on serial sex offender Taylor Dueck, but soft-on-crime bureaucrats torpedoed the cops’ pleas — even though warnings about him had been issued in the past.
Dueck then allegedly went on to sexually assault another child, an 11-year-old girl, at a Kelowna equestrian facility. The case remains before the court.
Apparently, no one knows how this happened.
With Fredericks, there were eight children who were victimized by the Smiths Falls-born pedo. And yet at his trial for first-degree murder, his parole officers admitted they had lost track of him.
In addition, they weren’t up to speed on his rather breathtaking aplomb for sexually assaulting children. Nor were they in the loop on his mental illness.
Fredericks was convicted of first-degree murder in 1989.
One headshrinker told an inquest into Christopher’s murder that Fredericks would “rape the family dog” if a boy wasn’t available.
While the system completely dropped the ball in the matter of Fredericks, the jailhouse code filled the void. On Jan. 3, 1992, the notorious pedophile was stabbed to death with a pair of shears at the old Kingston Penitentiary.
No one claimed the body.
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Peel Regional Police put out a warning that Joseph Faulkner is a high-risk offender and is back on the streets of Brampton and Mississauga.
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