Canada’s sex offenders not affected by purge
MySpace kicks out sex offenders — but not in Canada:
This is a great article from Canada.com that explains while 29,000 registered U.S. sex offenders were located and removed from MySpace’s userbase, no such purge will happen in Canada.
“We can’t even work with any private companies or law-enforcement agencies because we simply can’t get hold of the data,” said John Cardillo, CEO of Sentinel Tech, who said predators are more free to use Canadian social networking sites to lure young victims.
The public does not have access to the national sex offender registry — a database that provides Canadian police services with information to investigate crimes of a sexual nature.
“When the bad guys have to cover their tracks, they get caught,” Cardillo said, who added it was only in May that MySpace began to use his Sentinel Tech’s technology, after signing a seven-figure deal reached with MySpace’s owners, News Corp.
But because Canada’s federal government has not publicly released the names of registered sex offenders, those people are able to travel on the information highway, virtually undetected, Cardillo said. “We can’t see who they are so we can’t see where they are.”
I’d like to hear from Canadians on whether or not they think the sex offender registry should be made public.
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5 opinions for Canada’s sex offenders not affected by purge
julieq
Jul 27, 2007 at 7:17 am
The SOR is not made public in Britain or Ireland either , I’m sure there are predators using bebo too . It’s more popular here than my space .
BelchSpeak
Jul 27, 2007 at 9:25 am
Liberal countries value their criminals more than their innocent citizens.
Ju
Jul 30, 2007 at 2:56 pm
Omg, we need to be able to acess a list where all the pedoz are; home adress etc.
We only know about them when they are release but then again, they are free and anonymous and our children might be still in danger.
They also need to be blocked from myspace, bebo etc
yo
Jan 2, 2008 at 4:13 pm
you know the person most likly to molest a child is a family memeber. If someone is molesting your kids they wont be some stranger on myspace. It will be an uncle or a cousin. you are all idiots and blame everyone but yourselves for the downfall of society
BelchSpeak
Jan 2, 2008 at 5:47 pm
Yo,
so what is it that you are suggesting with your brilliant analysis? That families should be broken up to prevent the possibility of molestation? That child molesters with Myspace accounts are not harming anyone or grooming their next victims?
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