Molester eligible for unsupervised passes from halfway house
Posted Aug 19, 2013 10:04:35 AM.
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HALIFAX – The Parole Board of Canada has ordered a Nova Scotia child molester to stay in a halfway home for another six months, but the senior can now earn unsupervised overnight passes.
Cesar Lalo, a youth probation officer and child welfare worker, served nine years in prison after being convicted of 34 sex-related charges connected to boys who had been in his care in the 1970s and 1980s.
Lalo was released to a residential facility in September 2009 but later returned to jail for six months when he broke a court order by possessing pornography.
He got out again in February 2012.
Correctional Service Canada recommended that Lalo remain in a halfway house for another six months, but told the board he should be given overnight leave privileges to allow three nights in the community.
Medical reports in 2006 and 2007 found he had a moderate and above-average chance, respectively, of reoffending after his release.
But the parole board’s decision says his most recent assessment found that the risk of reoffending has dropped to between low and low-moderate.
