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CANADA - Will we be safer? Strict new legislation will ensure every sex offender is put on a federal registry

Original Article 12/13/2010 By Michael Friscolanti Eighteen months ago, the federal government promised to finally fix Canada?s dysfunctional sex-offender registry. At the heart of the proposed legislation was a ?mandatory inclusion? rule, ensuring that every person guilty of a sex crime actually ends up on the database. No exceptions. No excuses. But eighteen months later, as Bill S-2 (PDF) slowly works its way through Parliament, the status quo stands in the courts: a prosecutor must still ask a judge to add a rapist or pedophile to the registry?and some judges are still refusing. Like in the case of J.W., a Nova Scotia man sentenced to 15 months probation for pinning his girlfriend against a wall and tearing off her clothes. The Crown wanted him registered, but J...continue to full post

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