I don't know what happened, but the headline should read:

One More Example of A Broken Justice System

All I can do is shake my head at parole given after serving only 10% of his sentence:

Internet predator gets parole less than a year into 9-year sentence

"A convicted internet predator who victimized two Alberta teens by trying to get them to perform sexual acts on camera has been given day parole after serving less than a year of his nine-year sentence.

Joshua Innes was 25 when he was sentenced last August after pleading guilty to two counts of child internet luring, two counts of extortion and one count of distributing child pornography. The charges stemmed from two cases, one involving a 14-year-old Airdrie, Alta., girl and the other, a 13-year-old Edmonton girl.

Innes, posing as a 16-year-old girl named Nikki from Calgary, convinced the Edmonton girl to perform sexual acts for him over a webcam. He then tried to blackmail the girl into creating more pornographic videos by threatening to post the original movie on a popular chat site.

Innes's attempts to carry out a similar scheme with the Airdrie girl backfired when she rejected his requests.

The National Parole Board ruled this week that it would release Innes on day parole in August and on full parole a year later, saying that, as a first-time offender, he was eligible for accelerated parole."

Internet predator gets parole less than a year into 9-year sentence (http://www.cbc.ca/canada/edmonton/story/2008/07/18/predator-released.html)

Maybe we need bigger prisons. Or good old castration!

Yeah, even though I'm not as harsh as other people I have to agree that his release is far too early. Even though he could probably be reformed through treatment I doubt only a year of it is enough. Besides the general rule for parole is to serve 1/3 of the total sentence, in this case a minimum of 3 years. Even though his crime was not violent and he did not meet with the girls in person, the crime was serious enough for me to think more time would be needed before his reform. I think the 1/3 rule would have been more appropriate. I think the justice system need to be a least in part accountable to the public perception of an offender regardless of how fast he may seem to reform. There needs to be a punishment element as well as a reformative one. I'm not calling for him to be keyed up and the lock thrown away, or any physical harm done to him, but there needs to be a meter of punishment here.

Maybe we need bigger prisons. Or good old castration!
We just don't have enough Eunuchs in the modern world. Places like Rome and China were built on greatness because of the Eunuchs, and the Ottomans liked to have them around because like, what are they going to be able to do in the harem?

Someone that does such crimes needs to serve a severe penalty, and if it is nine years - that means nine years. We shouldn't put up wth this bleeding heart liberal garbage, it's time to geld the preverts...