HUNTER: Pedophile may wish he committed sick crimes in Canada
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The advocates, activists and academics will cough and sputter: “How could this be?”
And in the bowels of the Canadian justice system? Intolerable!
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Cruel. And. Unusual!
But in one of the most left-wing states in the U.S., a federal judge saw his way clear to sentence pedophile Noah Madrano to 50 years in prison. In Canada, the Supreme Court would be calling for a group hug.
Madrano pleaded guilty in January to two of the six U.S. federal charges he faced after FBI agents caught him with a Canadian girl in a suburban Portland, Oregon, hotel room in July 2022.
His M.O. was sadly familiar. He connected with a 12-year-old Edmonton girl online and began grooming and manipulating her for his twisted desires.
Madrano, 43, even traveled to Edmonton twice to sexually abuse the girl in Canada. In July 2022, he whisked her over the U.S.-Canada border, stashed in the trunk of his car.
“I stand here today with pride and strength,” the unidentified teen said during sentencing in Portland’s U.S. District Court.
“At first, I felt as if I would be alone reading my impact statement up here. However, I’m not alone. I stand here with every other victim of sexual violence that never got justice, in my heart.”
Like the 9-year-old Brampton boy who was kidnapped and sexually assaulted at knifepoint by long-term offender Lucas Petrini, now 34, in 2008. He threatened to kill the terrified boy and sexually assaulted him for six agonizing hours.
In 2010, Petrini was sentenced to 10 years, minus two years for time served.
Petrini was recently pinched again in connection with several “suspicious” incidents involving children in the High Park area.
His history of breaches is simply too dreary to repeat. But needless to say, his brother in arms, Madrano, will not be seeing sunshine anytime soon – if ever again.
Those 50 years in the slammer will essentially guarantee no other child will be harmed by Madrano ever again. It is a life sentence, just not in name.
Now, when the brigades of social workers who infest our justice system gather, they don’t like to talk about victims of crime. These tragic folks are NOT the real victims, they’ll say.
It is their tormentors, like Madrano and Petrini, whom we should reserve our tears for.
In the Madrano case, the teen victim has blocked out swaths of the horrific events that happened to her in July 2022. Still, she gets flashbacks of the horror she endured.
The court heard that Madrano forced his victim to dye her hair as a disguise, filmed numerous videos of the girl, and, as he claimed to love the teen, threatened to kill her. Once, he even held her head underwater.
The prosecution called the pedophile “dangerous, unrepentant and persistent.”
And in a refreshing note for those of us who deal with the Canadian system, prosecutors said Madrano’s prospects for rehabilitation were nil.
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At sentencing, Madrano hilariously claimed he only “wanted what’s best” for the girl. The judge called his version of events “ridiculous.”
Meanwhile, in Edmonton, cops have said Madrano wasn’t charged in this country because U.S. law enforcement was handling the matter. And indeed they did.
Call me a cynic, but it’s 100% that Edmonton detectives knew that, unlike in Canada, Madrano would almost certainly die in prison.
That’s justice – even if it causes convulsions in the faculty lounge.
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