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Posted Oct 16, 2012 08:37:00 AM.

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Sexual offender Ronald James Aucoin released from federal penitentiary…Aucoin has a criminal history involving sexual offences against children and is believed at high risk to re-offend in a sexual manner…why do we release sexual predators when they are likely to reoffend?

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