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CANADA • Female, 10 / Kidnapper: John Francis Dionne ~ Calgary AB
by karma Sat Feb 26, 2011 2:54 am
Sex offender wanted in kidnapping
February 25, 2011
John Dionne, 43
Several arrest warrants have been issued for a known sex offender in connection with the kidnapping of a 10-year-old girl.
The girl was shopping with her father at Deerfoot Mall Thursday evening when the two became separated.
That's when the victim was approached by a man who said he was a police officer and that she was shoplifting.
The victim initially went with the offender, but became suspicious and started questioning him, telling him she did not want to go with him. It was at this point that the offender picked her up and carried her to his vehicle.
The offender drove north out of the city toward Airdrie where he was pulled over for a traffic violation on Highway 567 by a member of the RCMP. At the time of the traffic stop, the girl had not been reported missing.
The victim was sitting in the front seat of the offender's van, but was too scared to say anything. The offender was issued a ticket and drove away.
Police say a short time later he drove to a nearby fast food restaurant and let the victim out of the van. That's when she called 911.
She was taken to Alberta Children's Hospital for a precautionary check.
Canada-wide warrants have now been issued for John Francis Dionne, 43, of Linden, AB.
Dionne is charged with kidnapping, child abduction, assault, robbery and impersonating a police officer.
He was last seen driving a 1997, green or turquoise-coloured Dodge Caravan with AB plate BBT 2981
Dionne has a history of sexual offences and violence against females as young as 10 years old and is HIV positive.
Residents in the town of Linden became concerned when he moved into the town of 750 last fall.
At the time, RCMP issued a warning to the community.
Anyone with information regarding this incident is asked to contact the Calgary Police Service Robbery Unit at 403-428-8787 or Crime Stoppers anonymously using any of the following methods:
TALK: 1-800-222-8477
TYPE: tttTIPS.com
TEXT: tttTIPS to 274637
http://calgary.ctv.ca/servlet/an/local/CTVNews/20110225/CGY_girl_kidnapped_110225/20110225/?hub=CalgaryHome
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Calgary girl safe after police scare suspected abductor at traffic stop
A convicted sex offender is now being sought by police after a routine speeding ticket was credited with interrupting the abduction of a 10-year-old Calgary girl by “spooking” her would-be captor.
The ticket was issued by a Mountie to a driver who police say is now being sought on Canada-wide arrest warrants. The man was let go, but police say he dropped the girl off at a McDonald's minutes later.
“I think it's fair to say this [officer] went a long way to protecting the safety of this victim, just by spooking him, by stopping him and causing the offender or suspect to rethink what he was or wasnt going to do,” RCMP spokesman Robert Frizzell said.
The ordeal began around 6:30 Thursday evening at Calgary's Deerfoot Mall. The girl was shopping with her father when, while separated from him, she was approached by a stranger who claimed to be a police officer, according to Calgary Police.
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Updated: Fri Feb. 25 2011 18:56:34
ctvcalgary.ca
Police tell CTV News that they have taken a person of interest into custody in connection with the abduction of a 10-year-old girl.
No charges have been laid yet and police will not confirm if that person is 43-year-old John Dionne.
An arrest warrant for him was issued earlier on Friday, after a young girl was taken from Deerfoot Mall and dropped off in Airdrie on Thursday night.
Police say the person of interest was picked up at a rural property northeast of the city at about 6:15 p.m.
http://calgary.ctv.ca/servlet/an/local/CTVNews/20110225/CGY_abduction_arrest_110225/20110225/?hub=CalgaryHome
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Man suspected of child abduction arrested
February 25, 2011 | 20:08
A man has been arrested after a child abduction in southern Alberta.
Calgary police say 43-year-old John Francis Dionne of Linden was taken into custody just after 6 o'clock Friday after a warrant was issued for his arrest. He's charged with kidnapping, child abduction, assault, robbery and impersonating a police officer.
A 10-year-old girl says a man abducted her from the Deerfoot Mall early last Thursday night when she became separated from her father. The girl was dropped off a short time later at a McDonald's near Airdrie north of Calgary relatively unharmed.
This after RCMP stopped the suspect's vehicle for a traffic violation along Highway 567, but the victim was apparently too scared to say anything to the officer. The driver was given a traffic ticket and drove away.
http://www.am770chqr.com/News/Local/Story.aspx?ID=1371007
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Bell: How could this happen?
It cries out for answers, straight answers.
Here’s a pervert.
He’s a high-risk sex offender.
He has a history of violence and sexual assaults within Alberta on females from 10 to 42.
He is seen as a significant risk to add to his nasty history. He poses a considerable threat.
He’s diagnosed HIV positive.
He may have access to vehicles and likes to hit the open road. This past fall, he had a blue Dodge Caravan.
The Mounties determine people must be informed about this individual. They put out a big alert. He has no conditions put on his release. Our paper does a story.
The Mounties worry girls and women will be victimized though the convicted waste of skin insists he’ll be good.
The local RCMP detachment visits where he works and where he lives.
He is even known by the Calgary Police Service. In a city of a million-plus they monitor 10 to 20 high-risk offenders. We’re talking the bad of the bad.
And then Thursday night comes along and the police inform us a man pretending to be a cop takes a 10-year-old girl from Deerfoot Mall.
They say he actually physically picks her up and takes her to his green Dodge Caravan and drives out of town toward Airdrie. A Mountie pulls him over for speeding.
The Mountie writes a ticket and lets the driver go, he and his little girl kidnap victim in the front seat. She wasn’t bruised. She wasn’t tied up. There were no red flags going up in the cop’s mind judging from the appearances. So says a Mountie spokesman the morning after. A Calgary inspector says she was too frightened to speak.
Before we get too far we hear this beaut of a scenario. It’s pointed out because the man is stopped for speeding he probably got scared and that’s why he drops off the youngster at a McDonald’s instead of continuing in his crime.
What a hero. What a unique way to fight crime. Let’s have the criminals drive away and hope they’re shaken up enough to spare their victims.
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RCMP review how suspect got away
February 26, 2011
The RCMP is reviewing how a high-risk sex offender was not recognized by police during a traffic stop while in the middle of an alleged kidnapping of a 10-year-old girl.
A traffic officer stopped John Francis Dionne's van Thursday evening after seeing it speeding on Highway 567 near Airdrie. In the front passenger seat was a young girl who had been taken less than an hour earlier from the Deerfoot Mall.
Dionne, the subject of a public warning in October 2010 as a high-risk offender, pulled over and his name and licence plate were checked. It's still unclear what information was given to the officer, who issued a ticket to Dionne and let him go. The girl, too scared to say anything to the officer, had not yet been reported missing.
Airdrie RCMP spokesman Const. Robert Frizzell said the RCMP is reviewing how Dionne went unrecognized.
"That issue as to what happened, what was said, what flags did come up, is under review right now within the RCMP, just to make sure we understand exactly what happened," said Frizzell.
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John Dionne was arrested February 25, 2011 in connection with the abduction of a 10-year-old girl.
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Accused kidnapper had sordid past
February 27, 2011
CALGARY – Mounties say they did everything possible to protect potential victims of a convicted sex offender, now accused of kidnapping a child, when he was released from custody last fall.
John Francis Dionne, whom RCMP deemed a high-risk offender when they released him last October, is back behind bars for allegedly abducting a 10-year-old girl from Deerfoot Mall Thursday while pretending to be a cop before freeing her in nearby Airdrie, Alta.
Last September, Dionne saw charges of kidnapping and sexual assault dropped when the victim recanted her testimony.
Court documents obtained by QMI Agency show Dionne was also convicted in 2003 for sexual assault using a weapon and kidnapping with intent to confine.
An appeal ruling states that on June 8, 2002, a witness saw a distraught woman running after a vehicle that slowed down and then quickly drove away.
She claimed she had been sexually assaulted. Cops arrested Dionne after the woman provided a license plate number and identified him in a lineup.
In December 2004, Dionne appealed his conviction, but it was rejected.
RCMP issued a public warning about him last October when he was released in the central Alberta village of Linden, stating he had a history of violence and sexual offences against females between 10 and 42 years old, was HIV positive and posed a high risk to offend.
But that's not all police tried to do help minimize his risk to the public, said Sgt. Tim Taniguchi.
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John Francis Dionne should have been wearing a GPS monitoring bracelet, a former provincial solicitor general said Saturday.
“This is bad guys: 1, the public: 0,” said Heather Forsyth, who served as Alberta’s top cop in Ralph Klein’s Tory government and has since switched to the Wildrose Alliance.
“He’s on the (province’s) high risk (offender) website — why was he not wearing a bracelet?
“That’s a question for the (justice) minister.”
In September, the province announced a three-year, $1-million pilot program that will see high risk offenders wear a GPS monitoring bracelet to track their movements.
Forsyth said Dionne, a 43-year-old convicted sex offender who is also HIV positive, was a prime candidate for the program as he is listed on the solicitor general’s high risk offender website.
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Friend of kidnap suspect thinks crack cocaine behind girl’s abduction
Police bring John Francis Dionne (left) to the arrest processing unit in Calgary, Alberta on February 26, 2011.
He is a suspect wanted on a countrywide warrant after the chilling abduction of a 10-year-old girl from a Calgary mall.
Photograph by: Leah Hennel, Calgary Herald
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Police were called to the residence at about 6 p.m.
“They came in with guns blazing. They didn’t need to do that. He would have just come out,” he said.
Wickersham, who gave Dionne a job as a farmhand six months ago when he was acquitted of raping a prostitute, said he spent a few minutes talking to Dionne about why he allegedly kidnapped the girl.
Dionne, an HIV positive recovering drug addict, was trying to get his life back together after facing several assault and sexual assault charges.
He told Wickersham that he had fallen off the wagon over the Family Day long weekend, resuming an addiction to crack cocaine.
Wickersham said Dionne claimed to be high on the drug on Thursday, when he travelled to Calgary for a medical appointment.
The suspect also told him he had no intention of hurting anyone.
“I told him: ‘You’d be lucky if there were a handful of people in the world who would believe that story. I wouldn’t believe it if I hadn’t known him over the past six months,” Wickersham said.
Dionne has recorded a string of offences against women and girls between the ages of 10 and 42, Mounties said.
He had a statutory prison release revoked in 2006 after he violated the court’s demands that he have no contact with children and abstain from drugs and alcohol.
“As alcohol and drug abuse have been identified as factors that contribute to your crime cycle, any such use would unduly escalate your risk to reoffend,” the National Parole Board wrote in documents obtained by the Herald.
The documents also show that Dionne admitted he was “attracted to petite women.” The parole board feared he may “sexually assault women who are underage.”
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RCMP reviewing how suspect in kidnapping eluded detection
February 28, 2011
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After questions arose about why Dionne was allowed to drive off, the Mounties said on Friday they would undertake their own review of the stop.
The RCMP had originally intended to have the integrated traffic unit review the circumstances of its officer, but instead senior management decided on Monday to bring in an officer of higher rank to do the review.
RCMP spokesman Sgt. Tim Taniguchi said the move is meant to show more independence.
The investigator will review the traffic stop in its entirety "including the initial stop, what information was given at the time, what databases were accessed, the communication between the officer and telecoms, interaction during the stop and upon the conclusion of the stop."
The review could be done in a week, or longer.
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STATEMENT FROM THE FAMILY OF ABDUCTED 10-YEAR-OLD GIRL
March 03, 2011
Our thoughts on our daughter’s abduction (Thursday, February 24, 2011):
Never in a million years do you ever want to experience what we had to with our daughter being abducted. And then to find out that this man who took your child away from you is a serious, high-risk sex offender; it’s every parent’s worst nightmare that something like this can happen, and it did to us.
Anywhere, any second, it can happen. No matter how hard you try to be a great parent or teach your child to be safe, there’s always a possibility that this type of crime can occur and you can only hope that it never happens to you.
There was definitely a guardian angel watching over our daughter that night, and that the sequence of events occurred the way they did. If they hadn’t, who knows what could have happened to her or if she would even be here with us today.
The fact of the matter is that she IS here with us today and words cannot even express how extremely grateful and blessed we are that she was brought back to us with little harm.
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Miscommunication behind failure to detain kidnap suspect: RCMP
March 16, 2011
CALGARY — The RCMP is blaming botched communication for an officer's failure to detain a man accused of kidnapping a 10-year-old Calgary girl.
Mounties have released the results of a probe into a traffic stop involving an officer who pulled over a convicted sex offender for speeding and let the man go — despite the fact he had a young girl with him.
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Took girl for cash: lawyer
March 22, 2011
A convicted sex offender charged with the abduction of a 10-yearold girl from the Deerfoot Mall last month had no intention of harming the girl, his lawyer said Monday.
Rebecca Snukal said John Francis Dionne was high on crack cocaine and looking for money to buy more drugs when he picked up the girl from the northeast mall and was later stopped by RCMP for speeding near Airdrie.
"The whole motivation was to get money for crack," said Snukal. "He (Dionne) was able to establish she had money and he wanted her money.
"There are no allegations of there being any harm done and there is no sexual element."
Dionne, 43, faces charges related to the Feb. 24 incident, including kidnapping with intent to confine, abducting a child, assault, robbery and impersonating a peace officer.
Snukal said some of the charges will be dealt with by guilty plea when Dionne is back in court April 8, although it has not been decided which charges will be admitted.
"Mr. Dionne is quite adamant he wants the public to know the defence is presenting it as a drug-related crime," said Snukal.
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February 25, 2011
John Dionne, 43
Several arrest warrants have been issued for a known sex offender in connection with the kidnapping of a 10-year-old girl.
The girl was shopping with her father at Deerfoot Mall Thursday evening when the two became separated.
That's when the victim was approached by a man who said he was a police officer and that she was shoplifting.
The victim initially went with the offender, but became suspicious and started questioning him, telling him she did not want to go with him. It was at this point that the offender picked her up and carried her to his vehicle.
The offender drove north out of the city toward Airdrie where he was pulled over for a traffic violation on Highway 567 by a member of the RCMP. At the time of the traffic stop, the girl had not been reported missing.
The victim was sitting in the front seat of the offender's van, but was too scared to say anything. The offender was issued a ticket and drove away.
Police say a short time later he drove to a nearby fast food restaurant and let the victim out of the van. That's when she called 911.
She was taken to Alberta Children's Hospital for a precautionary check.
Canada-wide warrants have now been issued for John Francis Dionne, 43, of Linden, AB.
Dionne is charged with kidnapping, child abduction, assault, robbery and impersonating a police officer.
He was last seen driving a 1997, green or turquoise-coloured Dodge Caravan with AB plate BBT 2981
Dionne has a history of sexual offences and violence against females as young as 10 years old and is HIV positive.
Residents in the town of Linden became concerned when he moved into the town of 750 last fall.
At the time, RCMP issued a warning to the community.
Anyone with information regarding this incident is asked to contact the Calgary Police Service Robbery Unit at 403-428-8787 or Crime Stoppers anonymously using any of the following methods:
TALK: 1-800-222-8477
TYPE: tttTIPS.com
TEXT: tttTIPS to 274637
http://calgary.ctv.ca/servlet/an/local/CTVNews/20110225/CGY_girl_kidnapped_110225/20110225/?hub=CalgaryHome
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Calgary girl safe after police scare suspected abductor at traffic stop
A convicted sex offender is now being sought by police after a routine speeding ticket was credited with interrupting the abduction of a 10-year-old Calgary girl by “spooking” her would-be captor.
The ticket was issued by a Mountie to a driver who police say is now being sought on Canada-wide arrest warrants. The man was let go, but police say he dropped the girl off at a McDonald's minutes later.
“I think it's fair to say this [officer] went a long way to protecting the safety of this victim, just by spooking him, by stopping him and causing the offender or suspect to rethink what he was or wasnt going to do,” RCMP spokesman Robert Frizzell said.
The ordeal began around 6:30 Thursday evening at Calgary's Deerfoot Mall. The girl was shopping with her father when, while separated from him, she was approached by a stranger who claimed to be a police officer, according to Calgary Police.
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Updated: Fri Feb. 25 2011 18:56:34
ctvcalgary.ca
Police tell CTV News that they have taken a person of interest into custody in connection with the abduction of a 10-year-old girl.
No charges have been laid yet and police will not confirm if that person is 43-year-old John Dionne.
An arrest warrant for him was issued earlier on Friday, after a young girl was taken from Deerfoot Mall and dropped off in Airdrie on Thursday night.
Police say the person of interest was picked up at a rural property northeast of the city at about 6:15 p.m.
http://calgary.ctv.ca/servlet/an/local/CTVNews/20110225/CGY_abduction_arrest_110225/20110225/?hub=CalgaryHome
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Man suspected of child abduction arrested
February 25, 2011 | 20:08
A man has been arrested after a child abduction in southern Alberta.
Calgary police say 43-year-old John Francis Dionne of Linden was taken into custody just after 6 o'clock Friday after a warrant was issued for his arrest. He's charged with kidnapping, child abduction, assault, robbery and impersonating a police officer.
A 10-year-old girl says a man abducted her from the Deerfoot Mall early last Thursday night when she became separated from her father. The girl was dropped off a short time later at a McDonald's near Airdrie north of Calgary relatively unharmed.
This after RCMP stopped the suspect's vehicle for a traffic violation along Highway 567, but the victim was apparently too scared to say anything to the officer. The driver was given a traffic ticket and drove away.
http://www.am770chqr.com/News/Local/Story.aspx?ID=1371007
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Bell: How could this happen?
It cries out for answers, straight answers.
Here’s a pervert.
He’s a high-risk sex offender.
He has a history of violence and sexual assaults within Alberta on females from 10 to 42.
He is seen as a significant risk to add to his nasty history. He poses a considerable threat.
He’s diagnosed HIV positive.
He may have access to vehicles and likes to hit the open road. This past fall, he had a blue Dodge Caravan.
The Mounties determine people must be informed about this individual. They put out a big alert. He has no conditions put on his release. Our paper does a story.
The Mounties worry girls and women will be victimized though the convicted waste of skin insists he’ll be good.
The local RCMP detachment visits where he works and where he lives.
He is even known by the Calgary Police Service. In a city of a million-plus they monitor 10 to 20 high-risk offenders. We’re talking the bad of the bad.
And then Thursday night comes along and the police inform us a man pretending to be a cop takes a 10-year-old girl from Deerfoot Mall.
They say he actually physically picks her up and takes her to his green Dodge Caravan and drives out of town toward Airdrie. A Mountie pulls him over for speeding.
The Mountie writes a ticket and lets the driver go, he and his little girl kidnap victim in the front seat. She wasn’t bruised. She wasn’t tied up. There were no red flags going up in the cop’s mind judging from the appearances. So says a Mountie spokesman the morning after. A Calgary inspector says she was too frightened to speak.
Before we get too far we hear this beaut of a scenario. It’s pointed out because the man is stopped for speeding he probably got scared and that’s why he drops off the youngster at a McDonald’s instead of continuing in his crime.
What a hero. What a unique way to fight crime. Let’s have the criminals drive away and hope they’re shaken up enough to spare their victims.
READ MORE
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RCMP review how suspect got away
February 26, 2011
The RCMP is reviewing how a high-risk sex offender was not recognized by police during a traffic stop while in the middle of an alleged kidnapping of a 10-year-old girl.
A traffic officer stopped John Francis Dionne's van Thursday evening after seeing it speeding on Highway 567 near Airdrie. In the front passenger seat was a young girl who had been taken less than an hour earlier from the Deerfoot Mall.
Dionne, the subject of a public warning in October 2010 as a high-risk offender, pulled over and his name and licence plate were checked. It's still unclear what information was given to the officer, who issued a ticket to Dionne and let him go. The girl, too scared to say anything to the officer, had not yet been reported missing.
Airdrie RCMP spokesman Const. Robert Frizzell said the RCMP is reviewing how Dionne went unrecognized.
"That issue as to what happened, what was said, what flags did come up, is under review right now within the RCMP, just to make sure we understand exactly what happened," said Frizzell.
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. . .John Dionne was arrested February 25, 2011 in connection with the abduction of a 10-year-old girl.
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Accused kidnapper had sordid past
February 27, 2011
CALGARY – Mounties say they did everything possible to protect potential victims of a convicted sex offender, now accused of kidnapping a child, when he was released from custody last fall.
John Francis Dionne, whom RCMP deemed a high-risk offender when they released him last October, is back behind bars for allegedly abducting a 10-year-old girl from Deerfoot Mall Thursday while pretending to be a cop before freeing her in nearby Airdrie, Alta.
Last September, Dionne saw charges of kidnapping and sexual assault dropped when the victim recanted her testimony.
Court documents obtained by QMI Agency show Dionne was also convicted in 2003 for sexual assault using a weapon and kidnapping with intent to confine.
An appeal ruling states that on June 8, 2002, a witness saw a distraught woman running after a vehicle that slowed down and then quickly drove away.
She claimed she had been sexually assaulted. Cops arrested Dionne after the woman provided a license plate number and identified him in a lineup.
In December 2004, Dionne appealed his conviction, but it was rejected.
RCMP issued a public warning about him last October when he was released in the central Alberta village of Linden, stating he had a history of violence and sexual offences against females between 10 and 42 years old, was HIV positive and posed a high risk to offend.
But that's not all police tried to do help minimize his risk to the public, said Sgt. Tim Taniguchi.
Read more
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John Francis Dionne should have been wearing a GPS monitoring bracelet, a former provincial solicitor general said Saturday.
“This is bad guys: 1, the public: 0,” said Heather Forsyth, who served as Alberta’s top cop in Ralph Klein’s Tory government and has since switched to the Wildrose Alliance.
“He’s on the (province’s) high risk (offender) website — why was he not wearing a bracelet?
“That’s a question for the (justice) minister.”
In September, the province announced a three-year, $1-million pilot program that will see high risk offenders wear a GPS monitoring bracelet to track their movements.
Forsyth said Dionne, a 43-year-old convicted sex offender who is also HIV positive, was a prime candidate for the program as he is listed on the solicitor general’s high risk offender website.
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Friend of kidnap suspect thinks crack cocaine behind girl’s abduction
Police bring John Francis Dionne (left) to the arrest processing unit in Calgary, Alberta on February 26, 2011.
He is a suspect wanted on a countrywide warrant after the chilling abduction of a 10-year-old girl from a Calgary mall.
Photograph by: Leah Hennel, Calgary Herald
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Police were called to the residence at about 6 p.m.
“They came in with guns blazing. They didn’t need to do that. He would have just come out,” he said.
Wickersham, who gave Dionne a job as a farmhand six months ago when he was acquitted of raping a prostitute, said he spent a few minutes talking to Dionne about why he allegedly kidnapped the girl.
Dionne, an HIV positive recovering drug addict, was trying to get his life back together after facing several assault and sexual assault charges.
He told Wickersham that he had fallen off the wagon over the Family Day long weekend, resuming an addiction to crack cocaine.
Wickersham said Dionne claimed to be high on the drug on Thursday, when he travelled to Calgary for a medical appointment.
The suspect also told him he had no intention of hurting anyone.
“I told him: ‘You’d be lucky if there were a handful of people in the world who would believe that story. I wouldn’t believe it if I hadn’t known him over the past six months,” Wickersham said.
Dionne has recorded a string of offences against women and girls between the ages of 10 and 42, Mounties said.
He had a statutory prison release revoked in 2006 after he violated the court’s demands that he have no contact with children and abstain from drugs and alcohol.
“As alcohol and drug abuse have been identified as factors that contribute to your crime cycle, any such use would unduly escalate your risk to reoffend,” the National Parole Board wrote in documents obtained by the Herald.
The documents also show that Dionne admitted he was “attracted to petite women.” The parole board feared he may “sexually assault women who are underage.”
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RCMP reviewing how suspect in kidnapping eluded detection
February 28, 2011
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After questions arose about why Dionne was allowed to drive off, the Mounties said on Friday they would undertake their own review of the stop.
The RCMP had originally intended to have the integrated traffic unit review the circumstances of its officer, but instead senior management decided on Monday to bring in an officer of higher rank to do the review.
RCMP spokesman Sgt. Tim Taniguchi said the move is meant to show more independence.
The investigator will review the traffic stop in its entirety "including the initial stop, what information was given at the time, what databases were accessed, the communication between the officer and telecoms, interaction during the stop and upon the conclusion of the stop."
The review could be done in a week, or longer.
Read more
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STATEMENT FROM THE FAMILY OF ABDUCTED 10-YEAR-OLD GIRL
March 03, 2011
Our thoughts on our daughter’s abduction (Thursday, February 24, 2011):
Never in a million years do you ever want to experience what we had to with our daughter being abducted. And then to find out that this man who took your child away from you is a serious, high-risk sex offender; it’s every parent’s worst nightmare that something like this can happen, and it did to us.
Anywhere, any second, it can happen. No matter how hard you try to be a great parent or teach your child to be safe, there’s always a possibility that this type of crime can occur and you can only hope that it never happens to you.
There was definitely a guardian angel watching over our daughter that night, and that the sequence of events occurred the way they did. If they hadn’t, who knows what could have happened to her or if she would even be here with us today.
The fact of the matter is that she IS here with us today and words cannot even express how extremely grateful and blessed we are that she was brought back to us with little harm.
READ MORE
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Miscommunication behind failure to detain kidnap suspect: RCMP
March 16, 2011
CALGARY — The RCMP is blaming botched communication for an officer's failure to detain a man accused of kidnapping a 10-year-old Calgary girl.
Mounties have released the results of a probe into a traffic stop involving an officer who pulled over a convicted sex offender for speeding and let the man go — despite the fact he had a young girl with him.
Read more
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Took girl for cash: lawyer
March 22, 2011
A convicted sex offender charged with the abduction of a 10-yearold girl from the Deerfoot Mall last month had no intention of harming the girl, his lawyer said Monday.
Rebecca Snukal said John Francis Dionne was high on crack cocaine and looking for money to buy more drugs when he picked up the girl from the northeast mall and was later stopped by RCMP for speeding near Airdrie.
"The whole motivation was to get money for crack," said Snukal. "He (Dionne) was able to establish she had money and he wanted her money.
"There are no allegations of there being any harm done and there is no sexual element."
Dionne, 43, faces charges related to the Feb. 24 incident, including kidnapping with intent to confine, abducting a child, assault, robbery and impersonating a peace officer.
Snukal said some of the charges will be dealt with by guilty plea when Dionne is back in court April 8, although it has not been decided which charges will be admitted.
"Mr. Dionne is quite adamant he wants the public to know the defence is presenting it as a drug-related crime," said Snukal.
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Re: CANADA • Female, 10 / Kidnapper: John Francis Dionne ~ Calgary AB
by karma Sat Sep 17, 2011 5:17 pm
Mall kidnapper faces dangerous offender designation
September 15, 2011
Police bring John Francis Dionne to the arrest processing unit in Calgary in February.
He pleaded guilty to kidnapping and impersonating a peace officer.
The Crown has applied to have a convicted sex offender, who kidnapped a 10-year-old girl from the Deerfoot Mall in February, declared a dangerous offender.
Prosecutor Gord Haight told provincial court Judge Gerald Meagher on Wednesday he is forwarding psychiatric reports on the offender to the Alberta justice minister for approval to go ahead with either a dangerous offender or long-term offender application.
If the justice minister determines there is sufficient grounds to proceed with the application, it will grant approval and a date for the hearing will be set.
John Frances Dionne pleaded guilty through lawyer Rebecca Snukal in April to kidnapping and impersonating a peace officer in connection with the Feb. 24 incident. He took the girl from the northeast mall and drove her to Airdrie before dropping her off at a fast-food restaurant.
He was previously convicted in 2003 of sexual assault using a weapon and kidnapping.
Last year, charges were dropped against him for allegedly raping and kidnapping a former prostitute. The woman, who did not show up for the trial, was arrested and then recanted when forced to come to court.
If declared dangerous, Dionne would be imprisoned indefinitely. To be declared a long-term offender, he would have to be sentenced to at least two years in prison, then subjected to up to 10 years of monitoring in the community.
http://www.calgaryherald.com/news/Mall+kidnapper+faces+dangerous+offender+designation/5409761/story.html
September 15, 2011
Police bring John Francis Dionne to the arrest processing unit in Calgary in February.
He pleaded guilty to kidnapping and impersonating a peace officer.
The Crown has applied to have a convicted sex offender, who kidnapped a 10-year-old girl from the Deerfoot Mall in February, declared a dangerous offender.
Prosecutor Gord Haight told provincial court Judge Gerald Meagher on Wednesday he is forwarding psychiatric reports on the offender to the Alberta justice minister for approval to go ahead with either a dangerous offender or long-term offender application.
If the justice minister determines there is sufficient grounds to proceed with the application, it will grant approval and a date for the hearing will be set.
John Frances Dionne pleaded guilty through lawyer Rebecca Snukal in April to kidnapping and impersonating a peace officer in connection with the Feb. 24 incident. He took the girl from the northeast mall and drove her to Airdrie before dropping her off at a fast-food restaurant.
He was previously convicted in 2003 of sexual assault using a weapon and kidnapping.
Last year, charges were dropped against him for allegedly raping and kidnapping a former prostitute. The woman, who did not show up for the trial, was arrested and then recanted when forced to come to court.
If declared dangerous, Dionne would be imprisoned indefinitely. To be declared a long-term offender, he would have to be sentenced to at least two years in prison, then subjected to up to 10 years of monitoring in the community.
http://www.calgaryherald.com/news/Mall+kidnapper+faces+dangerous+offender+designation/5409761/story.html
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