This is indeed shocking. The paragraphs that I found most perplexing, however, were these:
It went on to say: “The hearing allowed us to realize you managed, and this with the approval of your case-management team, relations with women that the board considers inappropriate.”
It was a strategy, the board noted, that “paradoxically constitutes a worrying and significant risk factor.” It ordered a re-examination of the terms in six months.
If I understand this correctly, it seems that the case-management team approved Gallese’s use of sex workers, but that the parole board itself considered this to be “inappropriate”. However, the parole board appears to have authorized his continuing to use sex workers for a trial period of six months, despite its assertion that this was “inappropriate” and “a worrying and significant risk factor”. Surely the case-management team works under the authority of the parole board, and surely if the parole board considers something to be “inappropriate” and “a worrying and significant risk factor” it simply should not happen.
On any view, this horrible series of events was allowed to proceed for the worst possible reasons and with the worst imaginable consequences.
All women (and those who love them), should boycott travel to Canada, the way people boycott travel to certain American states.
Does that not seem a somewhat disproportionate response?
Would you suggest that people should boycott all travel to France, Poland, and Switzerland, because these countries have refused to extradite Roman Polański to the United States, where he is regarded as a fugitive from justice in connection with raping a 13-year-old girl?
Would you recommend that people boycott all travel the UK because of the Metropolitan Police’s refusal to investigate an allegation that Prince Andrew had sex with an underage girl forced into prostitution by Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell on the patently false basis that the case lies primarily within the jurisdiction of the US, despite the fact that the alleged offence took place in London?
Would you urge people to boycott all travel to Cyprus following the shocking series events which led to a 19-year-old migrant working being jailed after she was gang-raped by a dozen tourists? The doctor who examined the victim was in no doubt as the to truth of her allegations, and the police investigation clearly fell far short of the standards required by Cypriot and EU law and the European Convention on Human Rights. The real perpetrators, meanwhile, are now far from the reach of Cypriot justice.
