Strict conditions put on daycare abuser’s release
Expressions of rage concern parole board
A Dollard-des- Ormeaux man convicted of having sexually assaulted young girls at a private daycare will have strict conditions imposed on him when he is released next week from a penitentiary.
William Parsons, 76, has never accepted the verdicts delivered on Jan. 12, 2012, that he sexually abused three girls between the ages of three and five who were under the care of his wife at her privately run daycare.
According to the decision by the Parole Board of Canada, Parsons remains resentful toward the victims of his crimes. The decision, which speaks directly to the applicant, noted that in May, Parsons told a parole officer he would have his “vengeance” one day. “You also implied that it would be against any child whatsoever. You repeated your statements several times in a state of definite rage.”
You may be in a condition to commit violent acts against children if you had the opportunity to do so.
Parsons was sentenced to a threeyear prison term on Nov. 20, 2012, but he avoided having to serve the sentence right away because he was appealing the verdict. The appeal was rejected in November 2014. He will reach his statutory release date, the two-thirds mark of the sentence, next week.
The Parole Board of Canada can only impose conditions when inmates have reached their statutory release date. Correctional Service Canada had the option of requesting that Parsons remain incarcerated beyond next week.
The parole board summary mentions that Parsons’s “advanced age and poor health” reduces the risk he poses to society. However, the parole board still felt strict conditions were required to protect the victims.
“Your case management team (the people who help prepare an offender for a release) is of the opinion that despite your physical condition, you may be in a condition to commit violent acts against children if you had the opportunity to do so. Your current psychological state is worrisome particularly since your (parole officer) no longer sees any lulls in the rage you expressed,” the summary reads.
Parsons must reside at a halfway house for six months and will have to wear a GPS tracking bracelet. Parsons is not allowed to be within a specific geographic area that includes a bike path, to prevent him from running into the victims. The specifics of the area were redacted, but court records indicate Parsons used to reside on Caruso St., where the private daycare was located, in Dollard des Ormeaux. There are bike paths on two wide streets in that neighbourhood.
Parsons’s relatives suggested to the parole board that part of the problem could be that rehabilitation programs were not available to him in English. But such programs are pointless if the offender refuses to admit he is guilty of his crimes. According to the summary, Parsons believes he is “the victim of a conspiracy, of the legal system and of a corrupt government.”
The victims were abused between January 2007 and April 2008. Two of the girls told investigators that Parsons persuaded them to perform fellatio on him. The abuse occurred in a section of the private daycare where Parsons’s ailing wife, who died in 2010, could not see what was going on. She suffered from a severe illness that limited her movement at the time.