Boisvenu wants a public registry of sexual predators

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Sunday, 30 July, 2017 10:43

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It will be ten years old, Monday, that the young Cédrika Provencher has been removed to Three Rivers. Despite the passing of time, senator Pierre-Hugues Boisvenu, holds out hope that one day the guilty to be punished.

“I am convinced that every day, police officers working in this folder and it is a question of time, when there was a murder suspect, in order for this person to be arrested”, said the man who founded the Association of families of persons assassinated or disappeared (AFPAD).

Even if”there’s still work to do,” the senator Boisvenu praise the work of the police, who, he said, “has greatly improved over the last ten years” in cases of disappearance.

“A disappearance is now being treated as criminal from the beginning, we don’t wait several days before you ask the question if this is an abduction or a runaway, we consider immediately the possibility of a criminal act and it is a lot faster which gives the possibility to solve the disappearance also more quickly.”

A registry expected

Pierre-Hugues Boisvenu regrets, however, that Quebec has still not adopted a public registry of sexual predators.

“Quebec has lagged far behind other English-speaking provinces, where there was given to the parents and families tools to prevent this type of removal when we are dwelling in a environment where there is a lot of sexual predators who are released (…) and you can see that there are a lot more pre-emptive arrests in these provinces.”

Pedophiles better protected

According to him, pedophiles are definitely better protected than children in Quebec.

“We think that all the people who have a problem with sexual deviancy can be rehabilitated and make public certain information on those who are at risk will undermine their social reintegration, so it really is a choice that Quebec is better to protect the pedophiles than the children.”

Senator Boisvenu should meet with the minister Jean-Marc Fournier, to discuss the possibility of creating in Quebec, a system similar to Ontario where the police share all the information about sexual predators.