Advocate upset sexual offender at centre of MSVU controversy was able to change his name
Posted May 29, 2018 10:27:00 AM.
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A Halifax university recently dropped its valedictorian days before the campus graduation ceremonies after learning he was a convicted sex offender.
The chair of Equal Voice Nova Scotia thinks having a sex offender as valedictorian and allowing him to legally change his name is unsettling.
Pamela Lovelace, says she was disturbed to hear that her former school, Mount Saint Vincent University, allowed a registered sex offender to be selected for the schools valedictory address.
Lovelace says that she is even more disturbed that Ricardo Gorski had the ability to change his name while he was a registered sex offender.
“I was so upset to see the fact that an individual who raped a young child and only spent 12 months in jail and then has the right to change his name so he can hide his identity,” said Lovelace. “And that is a concern for our federal and provincial legislators.”
Gorski had changed his name several years ago from Konstanty Bedo-Gorski to Ricardo, after he was sentenced for sexually assaulting a 14 year old girl he coached in soccer.
Lovelace says the fact that Gorski was able to hide under a new name, and walk the hallways while she attended the same school is very concerning.
