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A notorious pedophile who sexually abused two boys — and later set up a sophisticated computer network through which like-minded pedophiles exchanged information — is facing the possibility of a new criminal charge.
In a decision made last week, the Parole Board of Canada informed André Faivre, 75, that it will recommend to the Director of Criminal and Penal Prosecutions (DPCP) that he be charged with breaching a condition imposed on him as a long-term offender.
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In January 2016, Faivre was arrested along with more than a dozen men as part of a Sûreté du Québec investigation dubbed Project Malaise. The men exchanged child pornography through a secure email server Faivre created and controlled.
While investigating the network, the SQ uncovered evidence that some of the men, including Faivre, had sexually abused boys. He was eventually convicted on 13 charges, including sexual contact, gross indecency, counselling a person to have sexual contact with a minor and several counts related to child pornography.
In 2020, Faive was sentenced to a 12-year prison term and had just under four years left to serve after the time he had already served behind bars was factored in. He was also declared a long-term offender, which means the Parole Board of Canada can impose surveillance conditions on Faivre for a period of 10 years after his prison term expired, which it did in January.
According to the decision made by the parole board last week, it took Faivre only a matter of days to allegedly breach his conditions. The parole board wrote that a Montreal police investigator agreed to take on the case. If he is charged with the breach as an indictable offence, it comes with a maximum 10-year sentence.
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He is alleged to have contacted a former accomplice twice just days after his sentence expired. Faivre told his parole officers he believed that condition was imposed when he was sentenced and that the man was not included on the new conditions he was subject to as a long-term offender.
In January, the parole board decided to revoke a statutory release because he frequented an ice-cream parlour close to a park and a daycare. His prison sentence expired shortly after the release was revoked.
“Your case-management team (the people who prepare an offender for a release) notes that your short time in the community once again highlights your lack of interest in respecting the surveillance framework and that pedophilia remains for you something acceptable that should be recognized as a sexual orientation,” the parole board wrote. “You therefore do not see yourself at risk and believe that the conditions, orders and measures implemented should not apply to you.”
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