HUNTER: That stench? It’s Canada coddling violent criminals

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The justice system’s stench permeates this country like the old pulp and paper mills in Cornwall and St. John.

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Every pedo, carjacker, killer and sex fiend is treated with the delicacy that one handles a newborn kitten.

Commit a crime, get sprung; breach, commit more crime, get sprung. Call it a revolving door if you want. At the New York Post, we called it Junk Justice.

A Postmedia/Leger poll last summer found public opinion is “almost entirely at odds with the priorities being championed by provincial and federal governments.”

“I think policymakers and decision-makers need to realize that there are some very strong sentiments being expressed on these issues,” Leger pollster Andrew Enns, executive vice president, said.

The verdict? Canada is too soft on violent criminals and bail is way too easy, particularly for repeat offenders.

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For example: Cops put out two releases on Thursday informing the public they were hunting two alleged sex attackers. The pair are wanted in separate incidents.

Jahmore Walker-White, 31, of Toronto, allegedly sexually assaulted a woman Tuesday in the Yonge St.-Broadway Ave. area. He is wanted for sexual assault.

On May 25, in an unrelated incident, a woman was allegedly sexually assaulted in the Dundas St.-Jones Ave. area. Samuel Ampong, 34, of no fixed address, is wanted for sexual assault.

Both are known to cops.

Walker-White, who was on probation, was arrested in February for a series of sexual assaults in the Yonge and Eglinton area between Jan. 14 and Feb. 11. Three women have come forward.

In that case, he was charged with five counts of sexual assault, five counts of failing to comply with probation, and criminal harassment.

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In March 2022, the Toronto Sun reported he had been charged with two counts of sexual assault for incidents near High Park Station. And in July 2022, the Sun reported he was charged with the alleged sexual assault of a woman near Yonge and Merton Sts. in Davisville.

Walker-White was also arrested in June 2020 for allegedly assaulting a Metrolinx employee at the Bloor Go station. The male employee reportedly suffered “significant injuries.”

Walker-White was charged with assault causing bodily harm, mischief under and assault.

The outcome of the above charges is not known. He is presumed innocent until proven guilty.

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This isn’t Samuel Ampong’s first rodeo, either.

During a 2011 brouhaha over a computer terminal at the Toronto Public Library branch in Toronto’s City Hall, Ampong, then 22, allegedly stabbed another patron with a pair of scissors.

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The man in his 40s was stabbed twice, once in the neck and once in the chest. Ampong was charged with aggravated assault in that incident.

It is unclear what the result of that case was.

What is known is this: In Toronto, every major crime indicator is up.

The homicide rate is spiking with a 43% uptick over the same period in 2023. Nearly every category of crime — particularly the violent variety — is on a worrying upswing.

And more often than not, a quick perusal of the police blotter reveals that virtually every bad guy cops pop has a failure to comply in their jacket.

Still, the governments and courts bravely soldier on in their belief that punishment is icky and that every monster can somehow, miraculously, be fixed.

And that’s “entirely at odds” with what the rest of us believe.

Anyone with information is asked to contact police at 416-808-5300 or Crime Stoppers anonymously at 1-800-222-TIPS (8477).

bhunter@postmedia.com

@HunterTOSun

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