The Risk Of Re-Offenders

By 250 News

Inder Madhok, the Executive Director of Activators  says unless society can come up with a system to monitor pedophiles and rapists after they have served their time, we can expect more of the kind of cases like the one that came to an end in Kipling, Saskatchewan. 

Earlier this week, a known pedophile  who had served his time hooked up with two children, one from the immediate area. After several days of an intense manhunt and amber alert, the suspect and two children were found in Kipling, Saskatchewan.

Peter Robert Whitmore is now back in custody and facing new charges of abduction and sexual assault, but Madhok says when Whitmore finishes serving his time, he is free to walk the streets again without any supervision and that is the problem.

Activators in Prince George houses 16 or 17 Parolees at their 2nd Ave location in the city and another 12 to 17 at their camp at Kenneth Creek.  If they were sentenced to more than 2 years plus a day, they can apply here said the Director. "They go through a stringent screening process but we could get people from anywhere in Canada who might want a change in life, want to learn about forestry at our camp, or want to be near family."

Some he said just want a change of climate and so they apply to Activators. "We have housed murderers, rapists, and pedophiles, the whole works" Madhok says.  "We can, to a major extent, pick and choose who will come to our facility but the Parole Board has the final say."

Madhok says we need to change the system, "Most of the murders that occur are within the family, so usually  you don’t mind this type of prisoner, but with the rapists and pedophiles its a different story.  There are about 300 to 400 of them in Canada and lets say they have served their sentence on August 3-2006, they are free to go and you know that there is a 95% chance that without supervision they will re offend."

According to Madhok,  society needs some more  control over there needs to be more supervision for those who are mostlikely to re-offend "We need to put these people on supervision for another ten years after their sentence expires but it is very, very costly. Let’s says you pay the supervisor twenty bucks an hour, that could costs about $400 to $500 dollars a day for each one of them and there are 300 or 400." 

Pedophiles he says are the most worrisome.  "They could come to town for a couple of hours strike up a conversation with a mother, give the kid some candy all the while planning how they will molest that child. We need to make people aware that these kinds of people are walking around in our neighborhoods because unless we do, the Mum or Pop who sees the child visiting with this man may think everything is okay, and these pedophiles are great con men. On the other hand by throwing bricks through their windows you just drive them underground, we need something that works. "

Next week Madhok sits down for an in-depth interview with Opinion 250, after 29 years on the job he has a story worth telling.
 

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