Ruminations

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Thursday, June 04, 2026

Unredeemable Monsters Came in All Ages

"[The youth's intention] was to engage in sexual activity [with the 11-year-old. He knew she was not consenting when he tried to touch her. When she resisted, he attacked her with the knife]."
"At some point during the knife attack, he overcame her resistance and was able to remove her pants completely, throwing them to the side and pulled down her underwear, leaving the garment around her right ankle."
"[When he was just 12 he surreptitiously took photos of the girl's body and had] accessed pornography-related websites over 2,000 times."
"[The youth told the 911 dispatcher that the girl had been] forcibly taken from the bush area ... by three men in a white truck." 
Assistant Crown attorney Deanna Bronowicki
 
"People just came from nowhere and grabbed [her]."
"I don't know. I just ran."
Youthful murderer to 911 dispatcher  
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A teen charged in the 2024 death of an 11-year-old girl in Holmesville has pleaded guilty. CTV London
 
 A boy aged 13 in July of 2024 was arrested for the murder of an 11-year-old girl. Known to one another they set off on July2nd, of 2024 to share some playful activities at the schoolyard of an elementary school that had been closed for several years. The boy, a wood whittler, carried a knife and his cellphone. Entering a wooded area close by the Holmesville public school, they never did proceed further to the school itself. Evidence later pointed to the youth having attacked the 82-pound girl of five feet in height.
 
The sheer savage brutality inflicted on the girl left her with 70 knife wounds to her head, face, neck, torso and extremities. Her carotid artery and jugular vein were severed, her sinus perforated along with her cranial cavity, and deep cuts had collapsed her lungs. She had obviously attempted to ward off the blows raining on her -- as attested by wounds to her hands and arms. Just two weeks earlier her attacker had turned 13.
 
Before that time he had been perusing online pornography and in fact accessed enormous amounts of it, the investigation that proceeded on the discovery of the girl's body revealed. The boy, after making his 911 call to report the falsehood that the girl had been abducted by strangers, was kept on the line to the point where emergency services succeeded in tracking his cellphone location. Ontario Provincial Police officers found the youth on a road close to Holmesville, Ontario. 
 
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Police cordoned off the area surrounding Holmesville Public School in southwestern Ontario and have charged a 13-year-old boy with first-degree murder. (Alessio Donnini/CBC)
 
It was clear to the officers that there was more to the situation than what the youth had stated, of strangers having abducted the girl before his eyes. Since, before the officers' eyes stood a boy with bloodied hands and clothing. He had dialled 911 just after 4:00 p.m. and 30 minutes after he had last used his cellphone. Paramedics on the scene, though noting cuts on his hands chose not to clean them; they represented, after all, evidence, blood samples which would be scrutinized at a police laboratory.
 
An hour after the police found the boy's location, and put him in a cruiser to be taken to back to the school location, an officer en route video-recorded their conversation. At the same time, the youth took advantage of the interlude while in the cruiser to delete messages from his cellphone. It took little time for the police to reach a surmise that things may not have occurred as the youth claimed they had. It took an hour, but their search of the nearby bush revealed the girl's body, lying motionless on her back.
 
The assistant Crown attorney Bronowski, in her summation to the Goderich court, stated it was immediately evident the girl had suffered "significant blood loss from what appeared to be numerous stab wounds to her arms, hands, neck and head". The knife had been discarded, discovered lying on the ground beside the girl's left hip. She was pronounced dead at the Clinton Public Hospital. And that was roughly when the youth was taken to the Clinton OPP detachment and charged with murder.  
 
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Ontario Provincial Police continued their investigation around an abandoned school and in a nearby woodlot after the boy was charged. (Alessio Donnini/CBC News)
 
Police searched the youth's bedroom the following day, finding Airsoft BB guns and a number of knives. They also discovered a pair of girls' underwear and feminine hygiene products in one of his dresser drawers. An Ontario Court preliminary hearing committed the youth to stand trial for first-degree murder, concluding that the girl was killed during a sexual assault. An assault, furthermore, that culminated following a gradual and incremental preparation leading to the determination to rape the girl if she spurned his attempts at sex.
 
Searching the youth's cellphone police found 27 photos of the girl's body, alongside evidence that the youth was obsessed with pornography. DNA from the boy's blood was found throughout the crime scene; on the body of the murdered girl, on her jeans, on a ball cap, sunglasses, and of course the knife. Youth protects the boy from facing justice as an adult. Now 15 years old, taller and more physically robust than two years previously, the youth pleaded guilty to first-degree murder.
 
Superior Court Justice Marc Garson noted that the case was 'disturbing', 'upsetting', 'highly violent' and 'troubling'. An evident gross understatement. As much for the carnage that the mutilating attacks resulted in causing the death of the girl, as for the legal protection under the law for an underaged murderer whose act of horrific aggravated homicide on a vulnerable victim was vicious beyond comprehension. 
 
The maximum sentence for first-degree murder under Canada's youth law is ten years, with six years in detention and four years under community supervision. And then a monster is unleashed to walk the streets of a Canadian city.   
"If this is an intentional, planned murder by a 13 year-old, he’s going to get a murder sentence tailored not only for youth, but for very young youth."
"That is still a significant sentence for first-degree murder."
Scott Cowan, criminal defence lawyer 
 
“It’s got to be pretty significant and major for a 13-year-old to even come through the system anymore because most of those go through community resource and diversion programs."
"It’s not the 12- or 13-year-olds aren’t doing stuff, it’s that they don’t go to court as much as they once did. A 13-year-old charged with a violent crime, first-degree murder, oh my gosh."
Alan Leschied, psychologist, Western University professor emeritus  
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The Goderich Court House. (Blackburn News File Photo) 
 
 

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Sunday, November 17, 2024

Claiming Race-Based Persecution

"These charges are significant and highlight the investigation's focus on individuals who planned, organized and sustained criminal activities, often using violence to maintain control."
These individuals came to our attention during criminal investigations that involved violent crimes including homicides and shootings."
Chief Eric Stubbs, Ottawa Police Service

"When you think about that many people involved in this trade, and this level of violence we see in our city, the shootings and what-have-you, we're hopeful we're going to see an immediate impact and see a decrease [in these criminal activities]."
"The arrests [I believe, would result in] a change in our environment in regards to the violence we're seeing."
Superintendent Jamie Dunlop, director of OPS serious and organized crime unit

"We are extremely aware of the devastating effects that illegal drugs can have on our neighbourhoods."
"Therefore, collaboration amongst police services is crucial in the fight against organized crime and drug trafficking."
OPP Inspector Michael Moore
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Ontario Provincial Police Det.-Insp. Mike Moore, right, and Ottawa police Chief Eric Stubbs, centre, at a news conference about 'Project Champion.' (Michel Aspirot/CBC)
 
An explosion of serious crime has created a desperate situation in some neighbourhoods with far-reaching effects across Canada, strangely enough coinciding with the increased presence of Muslims in the Canadian population base. Among whom a significant number of people, albeit dare we hope, not representative of the total, have caused crime statistics to soar in Canadian cities and police forces extended to the limits of their capacity to respond. A propensity for violent crime, to which is added politically-based street demonstrations vehemently targeting Israel and Jews in Canada make this demographic rather less than desirable within a Canadian setting.

Invariably when daily news report erupt with stories of drug exchanges gone wrong, random shootings, gang violence and homicides, the names that are reported tend to be readily identifiable as coming from the Middle East or North Africa. Reports in the last several days in the nation's capital reveal that 17 individuals now face close to 150 criminal charges in relation to drug trafficking and violent crime, the result of one investigation alone, where arrests have taken place encompassing three different organized crime groups in the National Capital Region.

Multiple warrants were executed followed by arrests of leaders of crime networks in Ottawa and neighbouring Gatineau, Quebec. The investigation that led to these charges saw people facing charges for taking part in, or supporting the activities of a criminal gang. The Ontario Provincial Police investigation of 18 months duration was carried out jointly with the Ottawa Police Service. Five guns were seized, along with 6.5 kilograms of cocaine plus "a small amount" of crack cocaine. These are three distinct crime groups involved, with overlaps between them.

Following are the identities of those facing numerous criminal charges:
  • Mussa Aden, 29, 6 charges;
  • Yaheya Benamiar, 26, 4 charges;
  • Aaron Decastro-Singh, 39, 2 charges;
  • Faisal Fareed, 28, 19 charges;
  • Ahmed Hassan, 30, 4 charges;
  • Bayle Khandid, 31, 7 charges;
  • Bile Khandid, 33, 6 charges;
  • Yasin Mohamed, 36, 4 charges;
  • Tyson Morris, 35, 16 charges;
  • Ibtisam Rijal Hersi, 27, 4 charges;
  • Moussa Salleh Ali, 35, 5 charges;
  • Abdullahi Shaheen 28, 33 charges;
  • Kalif Shahreen, 29, 17 charges;
  • Yussuf Tarabi, 35, 7 charges;
  • Abdulaziz Warsame, 30, 7 charges;
  • Leban Xadi, 29, 6 charges;
  • Darioush Yavari, 31, 2 charges.
Bayle Khandid and Bile Khandid were linked as family members of two currently-serving officers with the Ottawa Police Service. As for the serving officers, they are linked to an problematical $2.5 million lawsuit that alleges the OPS had wiretapped and surveilled five of its Somali officers. Hardly surprising given the familial links to close family members engaged in crime, but in this current era of DEI/Woke/Critical Race Theory moral fog obviously grounds for a sympathetic hearing as a racist witch-hunt.

Two of five Somali officers, first cousins Liban Farah and Mohamed Islam, have alleged that they were subjected to surveillance on the basis of their race, linked to anti-racism efforts within the force, as also being 'first cousins' to 'gang-affiliated' Bile Khandid and Bayle Khandid. Claims by Farah that he had disclosed that connection on joining the guns and gangs unit in 2018 form part of the lawsuit.
 
Islam had been ordered to attend the police station at a time when he was on parental leave, and there questioned with respect to Bile and Bayle. He responded that he "was aware of their criminal lifestyle, and that he had no relationship with them and had not seen or spoken to them in many years". Clearly putting them all out of commission and securely incarcerated will have some measure of impact on the crime scene, but too great an expectation of making a difference seems unwarranted, since there are more than enough others willing and eager to take their place.

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Ottawa Police Service Chief Eric Stubbs speaking at a news conference Thursday in Ottawa. Ottawa police said 14 people had been arrested and three more were being sought in an investigation into alleged organized crime and narcotics trafficking. Police said a total of 149 charges had been laid in the investigation, dubbed Project Champion, including some for attempted murder, drug trafficking and assault. Photo by Tony Caldwell /POSTMEDIA

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