I’ve often wondered whether Canada’s judges are degenerate gamblers.

You know, multiple TVs and phone lines set up in their chambers, the bookie on speed dial to lay hard cash on Lucky Jim in the 7th at Woodbine. Except it isn’t the mortgage that’s on the line when judges gamble, it’s our children.

When it comes to dealing with sex offenders who rape, assault, sexually exploit and effectively murder the souls of child victims, our jurists frequently roll the dice. They almost always lay their scratch on the criminal.

Daniel Senecal, 25, of Welland, is allegedly the latest figurative Lucky Jim.

In 2021, a 12-year-old boy was sexually assaulted. Senecal was arrested and convicted of sexual assault and sexual interference and was sentenced to a measly 18 months in March 2024. Naturally, h

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