How Could You? Hall of Shame-Canada IA Parent

This will be an archive of heinous actions by those involved in child welfare, foster care and adoption. We forewarn you that these are deeply disturbing stories that may involve sex abuse, murder, kidnapping and other horrendous actions.

From Toronto, Canada, a 61-year-old international adoptive mother was jailed “for 6½ years for repeatedly exposing her adopted daughter to molestation by two pedophiles.”

““This is a case like no other,” Ontario Superior Court Justice Gary Trotter said Tuesday.

The single woman adopted the girl at age 18 months from an eastern European orphanage, “then quickly delivered her to a life of chaos, dysfunction, filth and squalor,” the judge said.

It was “a shocking breach of parent-child trust.”

The 61-year-old woman seemed calm as court officers handcuffed her. She had been out on bail.

The judge noted she appears to have “no insight whatsoever into her behaviour,” or to appreciate the gravity of the offences committed against her daughter when she was 8 and 9.

“Instead of protecting her from harm, (she) appeared to be in search of risky situations in which to expose her daughter,” Trotter said.

In June, a jury found the woman guilty of 10 charges, including criminal negligence causing bodily harm, obstructing police and sexual assault.

Prosecutors Paul Leishman and Melisa Montemurro asked for an eight- to 10-year sentence.

Defence lawyer Joseph Markin argued for a conditional sentence to be served in the community.

Court heard the woman introduced her daughter to Douglas Mackenzie, who was in custody after being charged with child sex offences.

Mackenzie introduced the girl to two other inmates, Gary Hoare and Randolph Bartley, whom the mother knew to be in custody for child sex-related offences.

After Bartley was released in 2004, the mother periodically allowed him to babysit the girl alone, sometimes on sleepovers at his apartment, court heard.

On occasion, she allowed them to sleep in the same bed.

Bartley performed several sex acts on the girl and videotaped her.

After Hoare was released from jail in 2005, the woman allowed him to live rent-free in a house she inherited in a small Ontario town in exchange for doing renovations.

She let Hoare babysit the girl alone in the house for extended periods.

The girl slept in the same bed and was exposed to the man while he was naked. Hoare sexually interfered with her, the judge found.

A psychologist testified the girl, now 16, will continue to suffer harm well into adulthood. She told the judge she feels betrayed.

The mother “demonstrated an appalling dereliction of her parental duties,” Trotter said.

Both Bartley and Hoare have since pleaded guilty to sex crimes involving the girl, though when they testified at this trial they denied their guilt.”

Mother jailed for leaving girl with pedophiles
[The Star 2/7/12 by Peter Star]