Something Evil This Way Comes

   The Keele Avenue and Dundas Street area of Toronto is the neighbourhood from which ten-year-old Holly Jones was abducted in 2003. She was assaulted and murdered. Many parents who could afford to do so moved away from the neighbourhood to escape the constant reminders of the innocent life brutally cut short. Many could not afford the move, however, and so they remained. Now they have been told that their area has been chosen as the spot where a convicted pedophile will relocate. Scott Whalen has been convicted of molesting five children, among them a 15 month-old. He has just been released from serving a three year sentence for assaulting a six-year-old. Supposedly, he has "strict restrictions" on drug and alcohol use, and is not allowed access to computers. If you believe those restrictions will actually be observed, then I have some really great swamp real estate to sell you. This creep is being presented to the community as "developmentally challenged". Is that supposed to evoke some sympathy or understanding for him? Those children whose lives he has touched with evil may need understanding and sympathy all their lives, because of what he put them through. Some are able to put such things behind them, and live their lives. Others never truly make it past the spiritual destruction forced upon them, and their life becomes a wasteland of opportunities unused. Why is this animal being given freedom? Why is he not locked away somewhere and denied the chance ever again to steal some child's freedom? Let him rot in jail. Let him be chained and forced to perform hard labour for the rest of his life. He has no place in society. Above all, he has no place in a neighbourhood that anyone calls home.