U.S. Sex Offender To Serve Probation In Canada

Posted on Tuesday, October 24 at 08:31 by jensonj
Watson, a former English teacher at Buffalo Seminary, was declared a "level 1" sex offender and also ordered to surrender a DNA sample. He is forbidden from having contact with the student and from re-entering the U.S., except for probation hearings. His controversial sentence will be rendered null and void and he'll be forced to return to court in the U.S. if the Canadian government bars him from entering the country. "It's unbelievable," said Dave Harkins, a former neighbour of Watson's in Fort Erie. "I don't know how they could do that. How can they send an American back to Canada to serve his sentence, and how does Canada accept him?" "If he's an American, why don't they deport him?" http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2006/10/23/pf-2105799.html [Proofreader's note: this article was edited for spelling and typos on October 25, 2006]

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  1. Sat Oct 28, 2006 12:35 am
    Isn’t amassing that the Canadian Government can arrest and hold people without charging them for suspicion of terrorism and national security reasons without evidence or proof of committing a crime but can’t stop or hold a person indefinitly who has pleaded guilty in a court to sexual abuse in the third degree and endangering the welfare of a child making that person a convicted fellen. He is a landed immigrant not a citizen of Canada. They had the right to deny him enter back into Canada before he arrived on Canadian soil.

    But most important of all is that a foreign Government and a foreign legal system without legal juridiction in Canada, the United States of America, feels it has a right to sentence its own convicted fellons and citizens to Canada to serve their sentences and all the Prime Minister of Canada can say is that its Canada and Canadians fault for allowing lack laws to exsist in Canada but not that it is a violation of Canadian soverignity.


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  2. Sat Oct 28, 2006 7:46 am
    <a href="http://www.canada.com/topics/news/story.html?id=dd8c655e-89e6-4096-82a4-9e785e884a5e">http://www.canada.com/topics/news/story.html?id=dd8c655e-89e6-4096-82a4-9e785e884a5e</a><br />
    Un-freakin-believable!<p>---<br>Diogenes said:<br />
    "I am Diogenes the Dog. I nuzzle the kind, bark at the greedy and bite scoundrels."



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