How Could You? Hall of Shame-Canada-Mac Bool Hassan
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, convicted child abuser Mac Bool Hassan,50, ” apparently hanged himself rather than face prison time after being found guilty of eight years of repeated sexual assaults on a young girl placed in his care by the Toronto Children’s Aid Society.”
“Hassan, 50, was scheduled to attend Superior Court on University Ave. Tuesday to hear sentencing arguments before Justice Faye McWatt.
Assistant Crown attorney Heather Keating stunned those in the courtroom when she announced that Hassan had been found hanging by a rope in the house where he committed sexual offences over a period of at least eight years against an underaged girl in his care.
He was free on bail at the time of his death.
“My understanding is that he hung himself,” Keating told the court.
Keating said she got the news of Hassan’s death Tuesday morning from a Toronto police officer.
“There was no note or anything like that,” Keating said.
His victims were not in court to hear of his death.
McWatt adjourned the case until Friday, to give a medical examiner enough time to officially determine if the dead man found hanging in Hassan’s home is Hassan.
It was not known when the apparent suicide took place.
Hassan was found guilty in March of 13 counts of abusing the girl in his care, from the time she was 7 years old until she fled his home at age 15. He was also found guilty of two counts of abusing her younger brother.
It took the jury only four hours to find him guilty after an eight-day trial.
The girl he abused, now a woman in her early 20s whose identity is protected by a publication ban, testified against him. In March, she called upon the province to allow the Ontario ombudsman to investigate allegations of abuse of children under the care of the Children’s Aid Society.
The court heard that Hassan had obtained custody of the girl despite having a criminal record with five convictions, including one for possessing drugs. He was not biologically related to either of the two children.
He briefly lost custody of them after his home was found to be a hangout for prostitutes and drug users, but the children were returned after he completed a stint in drug rehabilitation.
He told the court the children’s mother had a history of drug abuse.”
Child abuser Mac Bool Hassan dies in apparent suicide
[The Star 6/11/13 by Peter Edwards]
REFORM Puzzle Piece
Hopefully, there will still be an investigation into how and why Children’s Aid Society placed this child with this convict in the first place.
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