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Thursday, November 10, 2011

Preying On Children

It's become something in the nature of a black, cynically-bad joke; the pedophile-school-janitor. Third-rate novels feature such societal outcasts who prey on children. And the Ottawa Catholic School Board, perhaps taking their cue from the manner in which the Church hierarchy dealt with inconvenient predator-priests, had 'disciplined' their in-house child predator for his acted-upon-predilection, yet acceded to his request to be re-located to a high school from an elementary school location.

The Ottawa Catholic School Board was quite aware of this man's dreadfully inappropriate conduct with young girls, attempting to lure them on-line into sex acts with him. When he was transferred to Lester B. Pearson high school to resume his janitorial duties there with the Board, he requested no Internet access for obvious reasons. The Board insisted that to enable this man, Michael Mallette, to properly do his job he would have to communicate with board staff through the Internet.

He was subsequently moved to Our Lady of Peace elementary school. Where he exposed himself on a number of occasions. A probation officer Mr. Mallette was reporting to was informed by him that he was simply "bored" with stimulating himself on his webcam. He needed additional excitement and made an effort to reach children on the Internet. He communicated with a "girl", who was in reality an undercover detective.

This 54-year-old man considers himself to be addicted to sex. Not a pedophile - although all his attention is geared toward young girls - but a sex addict. One for whom pornographic images of bestiality and physical violence being inflicted on adolescent girls was a special treat. He pleaded guilty in May to the use of a computer to assist in his attempts to invite young girls to become sexually involved with him.

"This is a man with a very deep-seated sexual dysfunction. It spans the spectrum from bestiality to incest to sadism", Crown prosecutor Kevin Phillips advised Ontario Court Justice Heather Perkins-McVey. Mallette's lawyer is arguing for a conditional sentence allowing his client to remain in the community to seek help from Sexaholics Anonymous.

"Being a pedophile isn't a crime. It is engaging in that activity that becomes criminal", said his lawyer, ingenuously. Besides which, the man is no longer employed at schools, he now works as a cleaner at a museum. As though young girls never appear at museums with their school class or their friends or their families. "mechantgarcon1957" was his on-line call name.

It seems peculiar that no questions are being asked of the Ottawa Catholic School Board as to their decisions with respect to this former employee.

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