Canada A Haven For Sexual Predators And Deserters?

Raphael Alexander: Refugee board puts sexual predator's rights before those of teen victims

Posted: July 07, 2009, 12:30 PM by NP Editor

If you were asked a simple question: “Who do you think deserves the greater level of protection, girls under the age of 18 from a sexual predator, or the sexual predator who may face danger if he is deported?” You may have a simple answer. The nanoseconds it would take to make such a decision could possibly be prolonged by a few tenths of a second, depending on whether you had had your morning coffee yet.

But for the Immigration and Refugee Board, they seem to act on a completely different level of time and space:

He’s been branded a danger to girls under the age of 18.

But despite the threat convicted sex offender Farid Noedost still poses, he is now allowed to walk free instead of being deported to his native Iran. The decision to release Noedost on parole instead of deporting him came after the Immigration and Refugee Board agreed his fears of being killed in Iran are valid.

But Michael McPhelan of the Immigration and Refugee Board, who ordered Noedost to be released from custody on conditions after a hearing on Thursday, said he wasn’t convinced the man will not reoffend.

“I have concerns that you are dangerous to the public in Canada,” McPhelan said via video conference from Vancouver to a Winnipeg courtroom.

“The way you have conducted yourself in Canada is despicable. You are a danger to girls under 18.”

In agreeing with immigration officials, McPhelan said, “The need to protect the Canadian public is outweighed by the risk you face in your country of origin.”

This is on a whole new level of disgusting. That we uphold the principle of not seeing harm come to a pedophile, rather than protect our own children, is something I figured only happened in Law and Order episodes.

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