Zach LarkinsREALITY
It looks like someone is starting to wake up. Let me tell you a tale of someone who's number just came up. His name can't be revealed due to the fact that he was convicted under the Youth Criminal Justice Act, which is tantamount to being given a ‘get out of jail free' card, but we will persevere. His name really doesn't matter anyway, unless you don't want this piece of drek living in your neighbourhood.
Sentenced under the Youth Criminal Justice Act to the maximum six years in detention, which was his good luck. He was 17 days shy of his 18th birthday when he and two others killed Terrence Ali, a 15 year old who had the misfortune to drink too much at a Caribana Festival in 2003. Ali was beaten so viciously that his skull had been severed from his spinal column by the time he was dumped into Lake Ontario and left to drown. By the time the scum who did this was credited with pre-trial custody, the lucky inmate had just 4 years to serve for first-degree murder. He should thank his benevolent director at Sprucedale Youth Centre who decided he could stay on there even though he was well past the age where he could have been moved to an adult prison, and Justice Russell Otter agreed to the decision last August despite learning that the man had sent a young offender at the centre to hospital.
This piece of bog scum is now 21 years old and he has finally been removed from the cushy confines of the youth detention centre. Cushy? Youth jail inmates have their own rooms, shared kitchen, lounge, TV and PSP game systems. This is all in the name of rehab I suppose. But he is not alone in having received special treatment. There are still, currently, more than 30 adult criminals doing easy time in Ontario youth centres. Adults, folks. Maybe they were juveniles when sentenced but they have graduated to the big leagues while incarcerated and we have to wonder why they are still in a youth centre when they should have been transferred some time ago.
Ali's mother, Moonie Ali, refused to play the game with the justice system. When she found out about this set of circumstances, she knew she couldn't be quiet. "I was in shock," she recalled, "This is not justice. My son cannot speak to this -- I am my son's voice." So she began her own investigation into how it is that a 21-year-old murderer can still be in a youth facility. There is no strength more powerful than that of a mother fighting for her young, and this slight woman with the soft voice became a tigress. Her endless enquiries led to a review of provincial policy on transferring inmates into adult jails and even more satisfying was learning that Sprucedale had suddenly decided that they could no longer help her son's killer. They were finally shipping the towering 6-foot-2 murderer off to a provincial adult prison. "If not for her," said Det. Sgt. Gary Giroux, "I think he might have languished there. It seems they forget them in the youth facilities."
Not much of a surprise here but the killer is rather upset at being tossed out of his kiddie jail. So all parties were back in Scarborough court yesterday, with the young man asking the judge to give him a "get out of jail free" card instead. His lawyer Robert Warren argued that the inmate should be allowed to serve the remaining three years left of his sentence at his father's house under strict conditions and continued therapy. "He is not requesting the right to be out running free without any controls," he told the court. Hurray for liberal thinking. Just because the killer has to do some hard time, he should be excused. How very kind of him not to ask to be set totally free, but live ‘under conditions'. I'm sure Terrence and his mother would agree that this makes everything okay. Staff at Sprucedale said that while he's made very good progress there, they believe that serving just 18 months of his sentence is hardly enough. Especially since the killer has told them that he no longer needs counselling and still has a "lack of insight into his role in the offence." Scarborough Crown Tony Loparco cut through the liberal nonsense when he called the convict's apparent lack of remorse "extremely troubling." "Not only is this first-degree murder, it's a particularly horrific one," he reminded the court. "Three individuals bore down on Terrence Ali and beat him to death. The safety of the public is something you have to take into account."
The judge, in his wisdom, says he needs until April 15 to decide what to do. In the meantime, our tender young killer will finally have a taste of what it's like to do real prison time for murdering a helpless teen.
Sources: Michelle Mandel Killer Given Taste Of Reality The Toronto Sun
Sentenced under the Youth Criminal Justice Act to the maximum six years in detention, which was his good luck. He was 17 days shy of his 18th birthday when he and two others killed Terrence Ali, a 15 year old who had the misfortune to drink too much at a Caribana Festival in 2003. Ali was beaten so viciously that his skull had been severed from his spinal column by the time he was dumped into Lake Ontario and left to drown. By the time the scum who did this was credited with pre-trial custody, the lucky inmate had just 4 years to serve for first-degree murder. He should thank his benevolent director at Sprucedale Youth Centre who decided he could stay on there even though he was well past the age where he could have been moved to an adult prison, and Justice Russell Otter agreed to the decision last August despite learning that the man had sent a young offender at the centre to hospital.
This piece of bog scum is now 21 years old and he has finally been removed from the cushy confines of the youth detention centre. Cushy? Youth jail inmates have their own rooms, shared kitchen, lounge, TV and PSP game systems. This is all in the name of rehab I suppose. But he is not alone in having received special treatment. There are still, currently, more than 30 adult criminals doing easy time in Ontario youth centres. Adults, folks. Maybe they were juveniles when sentenced but they have graduated to the big leagues while incarcerated and we have to wonder why they are still in a youth centre when they should have been transferred some time ago.
Ali's mother, Moonie Ali, refused to play the game with the justice system. When she found out about this set of circumstances, she knew she couldn't be quiet. "I was in shock," she recalled, "This is not justice. My son cannot speak to this -- I am my son's voice." So she began her own investigation into how it is that a 21-year-old murderer can still be in a youth facility. There is no strength more powerful than that of a mother fighting for her young, and this slight woman with the soft voice became a tigress. Her endless enquiries led to a review of provincial policy on transferring inmates into adult jails and even more satisfying was learning that Sprucedale had suddenly decided that they could no longer help her son's killer. They were finally shipping the towering 6-foot-2 murderer off to a provincial adult prison. "If not for her," said Det. Sgt. Gary Giroux, "I think he might have languished there. It seems they forget them in the youth facilities."
Not much of a surprise here but the killer is rather upset at being tossed out of his kiddie jail. So all parties were back in Scarborough court yesterday, with the young man asking the judge to give him a "get out of jail free" card instead. His lawyer Robert Warren argued that the inmate should be allowed to serve the remaining three years left of his sentence at his father's house under strict conditions and continued therapy. "He is not requesting the right to be out running free without any controls," he told the court. Hurray for liberal thinking. Just because the killer has to do some hard time, he should be excused. How very kind of him not to ask to be set totally free, but live ‘under conditions'. I'm sure Terrence and his mother would agree that this makes everything okay. Staff at Sprucedale said that while he's made very good progress there, they believe that serving just 18 months of his sentence is hardly enough. Especially since the killer has told them that he no longer needs counselling and still has a "lack of insight into his role in the offence." Scarborough Crown Tony Loparco cut through the liberal nonsense when he called the convict's apparent lack of remorse "extremely troubling." "Not only is this first-degree murder, it's a particularly horrific one," he reminded the court. "Three individuals bore down on Terrence Ali and beat him to death. The safety of the public is something you have to take into account."
The judge, in his wisdom, says he needs until April 15 to decide what to do. In the meantime, our tender young killer will finally have a taste of what it's like to do real prison time for murdering a helpless teen.
Sources: Michelle Mandel Killer Given Taste Of Reality The Toronto Sun
Mrs. Ali sounds like a remarkable woman!
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