How Could You? Hall of Shame-Calgary Foster Father UPDATED

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, “Psychiatric testing has been ordered for a Calgary man who got his adopted daughter pregnant three times – one which ended in childbirth.

The man, who can’t be named to protect his victim’s identity, pleaded guilty Thursday to charges of sexual assault and sexual exploitation.

He admitted having a regular sexual relationship with a young girl he and his wife took in when she was abandoned by her mother.”

The abuse began when the girl was 14. She became pregnant in 2006.”The victim “did not realize she was pregnant until she went into labour.The girl kept the baby, who ended up being cared for by the offender and his wife.”

Within three months, the sexual assaults began again. “She became pregnant a second time in spring 2007, but this time the fetus was aborted.

She also got pregnant a third time, but instead of going to the offender she went to his wife, who reported it to Child and Family Services and the police were brought in.” “The girl had her second abortion in June 2008 when she was 16 years old.”

His sentencing with be on May 20, 2011.

Dad got adopted daughter pregnant three times
[Toronto Sun 4/21/11 by Kevin Martin]

Update: “Crown lawyer Pam McCluskey said the offender still doesn’t appreciate what he did was wrong, telling a psychiatrist the girl was as much to blame.

McCluskey also noted the man told Dr. Yuri Metelitsa he considered his underage victim his “girlfriend.”

But defence counsel Norm Kelly said the offender shouldn’t receive extra punishment for being honest with the doctor.

“He knows that what he has done was wrong,” Kelly told Justice Kristine Eidsvik.

Kelly suggested a sentence in the seven-year range, minus credit for the six months he has already served, would be appropriate.

But McCluskey said the offender’s behaviour deserves a sentence in the eight- to 10-year range.

“That there may be a worse case somewhere does not lessen the gravity of this offence,” McCluskey said, in seeking a term at or near the 10-year maximum for sexual assault.

“Parental sex abuse of children is an especially heinous breach of trust,” the prosecutor said.

The offender, 41, earlier pleaded guilty to two sex-related charges involving several years of abuse he inflicted on his victim, from the time she was 14 until she was removed from his home at 17.

The man started having regular, unprotected sexual intercourse with the girl when she was 14 and impregnated her.

Soon after her 15th birthday, and unaware she was pregnant, she had a baby girl.

She had two subsequent pregnancies, both of which were aborted, the first when she was still 15 and the second a year later.

She had been living with the man and his wife for years after her mother left her in their home, and although she was never formally adopted, she called them mom and dad.

“He willingly took on the role of father,” McCluskey said.

“(He) used the child who had come to see him as a father for his own sexual gratification.”

The prosecutor noted the offender “always maintained that his sexual relationship with (the victim) was consensual.

“The fact (he) tried to justify his crimes this way, points to high moral blameworthiness,” she said.

Eidsvik will hand down her sentence Nov. 4.[2011]”

Crown: Max for man who impregnated ‘adopted’ daughter

[C News 10/21/12 by Kevin Martin/QMI]

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