Source: Montreal Gazette
http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/used+lure+girls+gets+parole/1833427/story.html
A Montrealer serving a seven-year prison term for tricking two girls into performing sex acts for him over the Internet has been granted full parole with a series of conditions, including that he tell new girlfriends about his crimes.
Joshua Innes, 27, was living in St. Laurent when he was arrested for child luring and extortion in 2007. His crimes involved two girls from Alberta, ages 13 and 14. He pleaded guilty and was sentenced in an Edmonton court that year.
He has served his sentence in Quebec and was recently granted full parole by the National Parole Board.
He was eligible for an accelerated parole review, or early parole, because his crimes are not considered violent, according to parole board criteria.
But the judge who sentenced Innes said the case was “characterized by such aggravating factors that the level of abuse invokes a sentence approaching that imposed for a major sexual assault.”
When Innes was granted day parole last year, Steve Sullivan, the federal ombudsman for victims of crime, criticized the accelerated parole provisions for being outdated.
On Monday, Sullivan noted parts of Bill C43, introduced in June, would classify Internet luring and child pornography among the most serious offences in the Criminal Code.
Corey Martell, a former Alberta lawyer and a member of Beyond Borders, said the child-advocacy group is disappointed in the decision.
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Ont. dog owner fined $14,000 for online breeder bashing
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
Source: Montreal Gazette
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An Ontario woman has been fined $14,000 after being found guilty of libelling a commercial dog breeder online.
Ontario Superior Court Judge Michael Galligan heard last week that Lorie Gordon of Brockville, Ont., made the comments about the poor health of her black Labrador retrievers on an Internet pet forum.
The judge ordered Gordon to pay $10,000 in damages and $4,000 in court costs to James, Charlene and Nicole Labombard, the owners of the Shawville, Que.-based Paws R Us Kennel.
Galligan ruled the comments Gordon posted online between July 2004 and April 2005 at www.pets.ca and another popular pet websites were defamatory.
But Gordon said on Monday she will appeal the decision with the help of donations from animal-rights advocates.
“I wrote they had sick dogs, which is true,” she said.
Luc Barrick, the Ottawa lawyer representing the Labombards, said Gordon and several other witnesses, including representatives from Montreal’s SPCA, attempted to portray Paws R Us as a puppy mill. [more ...]
Charges against Carleton hacker dropped
Monday, July 27, 2009
Source: The Ottawa Citizen
Carleton University student who hacked into the accounts of 32 students to expose what he described as the system’s security flaws has had all criminal charges against him withdrawn.
Charges of mischief to data and unauthorized use of a computer laid against Mansour Moufid last September were quietly withdrawn in early April after the second-year math student completed a diversion program that typically requires participants to do things such as make donations, perform community service and write letters of apology or essays reflecting on their conduct...
Moufid, 21, was charged after sending a 16-page report to university administrators and students under the pseudonym “Kasper Holmberg” in which he showed he had accessed the Campus Card accounts of 32 students.
Moufid could have read student e-mails, course registrations, library records and personal financial information, as well as accessed any money students put on their cards. But he states in his report that was not his intent. Instead, it was to encourage the university to improve its security.
After being charged, Moufid told the Citizen he planned to quit school rather than accept the sanctions the school attempted to impose on him for violating Carleton University’s Student Rights and Responsibilities Policy.
Those sanctions included:
-- paying $608 for the cost of 32 new student cards;
-- paying $2,160 for the cost of extra security staff for the residence buildings “due to the unknown risk caused by the breach of the campus card system”
-- seven hours of community service per week at a food bank;
-- completion of an ethics course;
-- that Moufid allow the university to monitor all his online activity through any Carleton University server; and
-- that if Moufid violated the university’s student policy again, he would be expelled.
However, it was a final condition, a letter of apology to the 32 students whose accounts he accessed, the university and the university community, that must have included the statement “that you lied about alerting the university before distribution (of the report)” that most upset Moufid.
“They’re asking me to say I did something I didn’t do,” said Moufid, who told the Citizen he mailed a copy of his technical report to Carleton’s Information Privacy Officer and its information co-ordinator in mid-August, two weeks before he sent it to the affected students and campus media.
In a statement of defence provided to university administrators, Moufid wrote that he “never had any intention to harm my fellow students or Carleton University in any way,” and that his ultimate goal was to see security improved.
Moufid said the system wasn’t difficult to crack and that he first noticed its vulnerability the previous year, but didn’t write the report until the summer.
The campus cards are used like debit cards throughout campus, and Moufid said he was able to easily crack the system by using a computer program that captured information when the cards were swiped.
The cards do not require students to enter a personal identification number or PIN. Moufid admitted that he probably could have done things differently to prove his point in a way that would have been more favourable to the university, but he added that he doesn’t think they would have taken it seriously.
“To make them do something, you have to at least let them believe that it could be made public,” he said at the time.
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Carleton University student who hacked into the accounts of 32 students to expose what he described as the system’s security flaws has had all criminal charges against him withdrawn.
Charges of mischief to data and unauthorized use of a computer laid against Mansour Moufid last September were quietly withdrawn in early April after the second-year math student completed a diversion program that typically requires participants to do things such as make donations, perform community service and write letters of apology or essays reflecting on their conduct...
Moufid, 21, was charged after sending a 16-page report to university administrators and students under the pseudonym “Kasper Holmberg” in which he showed he had accessed the Campus Card accounts of 32 students.
Moufid could have read student e-mails, course registrations, library records and personal financial information, as well as accessed any money students put on their cards. But he states in his report that was not his intent. Instead, it was to encourage the university to improve its security.
After being charged, Moufid told the Citizen he planned to quit school rather than accept the sanctions the school attempted to impose on him for violating Carleton University’s Student Rights and Responsibilities Policy.
Those sanctions included:
-- paying $608 for the cost of 32 new student cards;
-- paying $2,160 for the cost of extra security staff for the residence buildings “due to the unknown risk caused by the breach of the campus card system”
-- seven hours of community service per week at a food bank;
-- completion of an ethics course;
-- that Moufid allow the university to monitor all his online activity through any Carleton University server; and
-- that if Moufid violated the university’s student policy again, he would be expelled.
However, it was a final condition, a letter of apology to the 32 students whose accounts he accessed, the university and the university community, that must have included the statement “that you lied about alerting the university before distribution (of the report)” that most upset Moufid.
“They’re asking me to say I did something I didn’t do,” said Moufid, who told the Citizen he mailed a copy of his technical report to Carleton’s Information Privacy Officer and its information co-ordinator in mid-August, two weeks before he sent it to the affected students and campus media.
In a statement of defence provided to university administrators, Moufid wrote that he “never had any intention to harm my fellow students or Carleton University in any way,” and that his ultimate goal was to see security improved.
Moufid said the system wasn’t difficult to crack and that he first noticed its vulnerability the previous year, but didn’t write the report until the summer.
The campus cards are used like debit cards throughout campus, and Moufid said he was able to easily crack the system by using a computer program that captured information when the cards were swiped.
The cards do not require students to enter a personal identification number or PIN. Moufid admitted that he probably could have done things differently to prove his point in a way that would have been more favourable to the university, but he added that he doesn’t think they would have taken it seriously.
“To make them do something, you have to at least let them believe that it could be made public,” he said at the time.
aseymour@thecitizen.canwest.com
Investigating Heed under new Police Act would be difficult: commissioner
Saturday, July 25, 2009
Source: The Vancouver Sun
B.C.’s deputy police-complaints commissioner said Friday it would be difficult to investigate Solicitor-General Kash Heed under a revised Police Act expected to be passed in the fall.
The possibility was mentioned Thursday by Premier Gordon Campbell.
Heed faced a complaint when he was West Vancouver’s chief of police that he disclosed information about a child-pornography investigation to a police board member who worked at the same company as the suspect.
The West Vancouver police board dropped the complaint after Heed resigned to run for the provincial Liberals, and B.C.’s Office of the Police Complaint Commissioner agreed with that decision.
Campbell told The Vancouver Sun on Thursday it might be possible to investigate the complaint under a revised Police Act that covers ex-officers.
The police complaint commissioner has traditionally dropped cases against ex-officers. Campbell said the revised legislation would allow the commissioner to decide if it’s appropriate to pursue a case against an ex-officer.
But deputy commissioner Bruce Brown said: “I would think it would be difficult to retroactively include officers who resigned or retired prior to new legislation.” [more ...]
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B.C.’s deputy police-complaints commissioner said Friday it would be difficult to investigate Solicitor-General Kash Heed under a revised Police Act expected to be passed in the fall.
The possibility was mentioned Thursday by Premier Gordon Campbell.
Heed faced a complaint when he was West Vancouver’s chief of police that he disclosed information about a child-pornography investigation to a police board member who worked at the same company as the suspect.
The West Vancouver police board dropped the complaint after Heed resigned to run for the provincial Liberals, and B.C.’s Office of the Police Complaint Commissioner agreed with that decision.
Campbell told The Vancouver Sun on Thursday it might be possible to investigate the complaint under a revised Police Act that covers ex-officers.
The police complaint commissioner has traditionally dropped cases against ex-officers. Campbell said the revised legislation would allow the commissioner to decide if it’s appropriate to pursue a case against an ex-officer.
But deputy commissioner Bruce Brown said: “I would think it would be difficult to retroactively include officers who resigned or retired prior to new legislation.” [more ...]
Thieves dial into pool of online victims
Saturday, July 25, 2009
Source: The Toronto Star
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Online classified shoppers trawling for deals on iPhones are being targeted by armed thieves.
In three connected incidents earlier this month, victims answered ads posted on Craigslist and Kijiji, exchanged numbers and email addresses with the seller, then arranged to meet at a parking lot near Jane St. and Sheppard Ave. W.
In each case, the victims were robbed of between $400 and $600.
Det. Const. Christopher Sloan says similar incidents have been happening across the city, but the most recent cases are believed to involve the same men.
“It’s easy for people to hide behind the computer,” said Sloan.
“You have to be aware of what you’re doing on the Internet. … If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is.”
Craigslist crime is happening across North America.
Ex-City of Saskatoon employee pleads guilty to child porn charge
Wednesday, July 22, 2009
Source: The Star Phoenix
http://www.thestarphoenix.com/story_print.html?id=1812697&sponsor=
Errol Hudec, a former City of Saskatoon employee, left a Saskatoon courtroom in handcuffs Tuesday after pleading guilty to one count of accessing child pornography on his computer at City Hall. [more ...]
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Errol Hudec, a former City of Saskatoon employee, left a Saskatoon courtroom in handcuffs Tuesday after pleading guilty to one count of accessing child pornography on his computer at City Hall. [more ...]
Saskatoon city worker jailed on child-porn conviction
Tuesday, July 21, 2009
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/saskatchewan/story/2009/07/21/sask-porn.html
A City of Saskatoon employee has been jailed after he used his work computer to look at pornographic images of children.
Errol Stanley Hudec, 47, pleaded guilty Tuesday in a Saskatoon courtroom to a charge of possessing child pornography.
He was sentenced to 45 days in jail, plus three years' probation. During that time, he's forbidden to access the internet or go to parks.
Hudec, who was first suspended and ultimately fired from his $48,000 a year job as an assessment support technician, told the judge he deeply regrets his actions and promised it will never happen again.
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A City of Saskatoon employee has been jailed after he used his work computer to look at pornographic images of children.
Errol Stanley Hudec, 47, pleaded guilty Tuesday in a Saskatoon courtroom to a charge of possessing child pornography.
He was sentenced to 45 days in jail, plus three years' probation. During that time, he's forbidden to access the internet or go to parks.
Hudec, who was first suspended and ultimately fired from his $48,000 a year job as an assessment support technician, told the judge he deeply regrets his actions and promised it will never happen again.
N.L. doctor posted video of patient in ambulance online
Friday, July 17, 2009
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/newfoundland-labrador/story/2009/07/17/video-newfoundland-717.html
Two employees at Newfoundland's largest health authority and a doctor are facing disciplinary action after a video of a patient in an ambulance wound up on the internet.
The video of the unconscious man was taken on Monday while he was being brought from Clarenville to the Health Sciences Centre in St. John's.
Friday, Eastern Regional Health Authority CEO Vickie Kaminski confirmed a physician shot the video.
"This physician is an active participant in trauma care. He is very interested in sharing what he knows and using different patient situations as teaching opportunities," said Kaminski. "This was an unusual case, not something that you would normally see, and he was wanting to record it for teaching purposes and posterity."
Kaminski says the doctor didn't have permission to shoot the video, and he shouldn't have put it on YouTube, the online video site. [more]
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Two employees at Newfoundland's largest health authority and a doctor are facing disciplinary action after a video of a patient in an ambulance wound up on the internet.
The video of the unconscious man was taken on Monday while he was being brought from Clarenville to the Health Sciences Centre in St. John's.
Friday, Eastern Regional Health Authority CEO Vickie Kaminski confirmed a physician shot the video.
"This physician is an active participant in trauma care. He is very interested in sharing what he knows and using different patient situations as teaching opportunities," said Kaminski. "This was an unusual case, not something that you would normally see, and he was wanting to record it for teaching purposes and posterity."
Kaminski says the doctor didn't have permission to shoot the video, and he shouldn't have put it on YouTube, the online video site. [more]
Former B'nai B'rith director says child porn videos were research
Thursday, January 01, 1970
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