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Thread ID: 4077 | Posts: 3 | Started: 2002-12-18
2002-12-18 19:49 | User Profile
"An Ethiopian refugee claimant who was convicted of raping two 15-year-old Calgary girls, and ordered deported six years ago to the day, is still in Canada.
But, because of Canada's privacy laws, officials refuse to reveal the whereabouts of Yohannes Mehari Mircha or even where he served his six years in prison for sodomizing and repeatedly raping two girls.
The story of Mircha, 42, is so upsetting and such a picture-perfect example of everything that is wrong with our immigration system -- if not our whole federal government -- that people with heart troubles should not read any further. "
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[url=http://www.canoe.ca/CalgaryNews/cs.cs-12-17-0009.html]http://www.canoe.ca/CalgaryNews/cs.cs-12-17-0009.html[/url]
2002-12-18 21:59 | User Profile
The Calgary Sun -- isn't that an Asper paper? Odd, if it is.
Some amazing passages:
**He was arrested two days later and even though the court was in possession of the videotape of his crime, Mircha was released on $750 bail on July 22.
That glib decision ruined a second girl's life. Some seven months later, on Feb. 23, 1995, Mircha again repeatedly raped and sodomized another 15-year-old girl. **
**It was expected that as soon as he served his time behind bars -- or perchance he was playing golf? -- he would go straight from jail onto a plane bound for Ethiopia.
But, hey, this is Canada.
Instead, Mircha walked out of prison a free man (privacy laws won't let me know which one) on Oct. 9, 2001.
Even though he is not a Canadian citizen and he has proven himself to be of extreme danger to children and he is not even supposed to still be in this country, neither immigration officials nor corrections officials will tell me where he is living, or even where he served his sentence.
So, for the past year and two months, this rapist has been roaming the streets free and we're not allowed to know where he is. **
**However, the Immigration and Refugee Board has the authority to "continue detention."
"The decision was made to release him under certain conditions," said Battiston, though, again, those conditions are also considered private.
"No new evidence was presented that the person was a danger," she added. **
**It's odd who our politicians choose to protect; odder still, who they choose NOT to protect.
But here's the zinger.
"It is a priority file," insisted Battiston.
"We are actively working on it and it's being closely monitored."
Six years to the day have passed since Mircha was ordered deported and this is a PRIORITY file? **
2002-12-19 03:52 | User Profile
Originally posted by rban@Dec 19 2002, 03:28 Well, I think there is a problem with Ethiopia. People ther often face political persecution, so deporting him back may not be ethical based on the regime that is in place there.
Send him to the paradise that is India.