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Homosexual pedophile strategy noted in National Post
National Post – Oct. 22, 2010
Exporting Perversion
By Benjamin Perrin
Growing up in Calgary, I remember Theo Fleury as a hockey hero who inspired a generation of kids. Now, he’s a hero off the ice, speaking out about the child sexual abuse he suffered as a young hockey player and drawing attention to Canada’s appalling response to dealing with convicted pedophiles.
Graham James was convicted in 1997 for sexually assaulting Fleury’s former Flames teammate Sheldon Kennedy and an unidentified player 350 times over a 10-year period when James was their junior hockey coach. James served just 18 months in prison upon conviction and was granted a pardon in 2007, sparking public outrage. We now know that after receiving the pardon, James legally changed his name, obtained a Canadian passport and has been living in Mexico under his new identity.
“There’s lots of things that we can learn from this,” said Fleury at a recent press conference, after the Winnipeg Police Service issued an arrest warrant for James on new child sex-crime charges based on Fleury’s criminal complaint that he too was a victim of James. He’s right.
Since the early 1990s, the “North American Man/Boy Love Association” (NAMBLA) has been encouraging pedophiles to visit developing countries to satisfy their perverse sexual urges and evade detection. Mexico, where James has been living, is one such child sex tourism destination – a country where an estimated 30,000 kids are sold for sex acts.
While presently there are no allegations that James has been sexually abusing children in Mexico, research shows that habitual child sex offenders engage in a pattern of abuse at home and abroad. A study by the Protection Project at Johns Hopkins University found that almost half of American offenders convicted of engaging in child sex tourism abroad had job responsibilities at home that placed them in daily contact with children. Two-thirds of men convicted of child sex crimes abroad were also convicted for similar crimes at home.
Canada’s reputation makes it easy for child sex offenders to travel abroad and sexually abuse children. Between 1993 and 2008, the Department of Foreign Affairs provided consular assistance to more than 150 Canadian men charged with child molestation in countries including Cambodia, China, Costa Rica, Cuba, Mexico, Panama, Thailand, and the United States. These represent only those cases flagrant enough to attract attention and action from local law enforcement officials.
John Wrenshall, a 63-year-old former Boy Scout leader who had been convicted of sexually abusing young boys in Calgary, was free to travel abroad without any restrictions. He moved to Thailand in 2000 and became the mastermind of an operation that arranged trips for foreign pedophiles to sexually abuse children as young as four. Wrenshall’s “customers” even photographed and videotaped their unspeakable abuse. Wrenshall was successfully prosecuted in the United States in May 2010 because some of his “customers” were American; no thanks to Canada, which allowed this convicted sex offender to freely travel abroad.