Mar. 30 - What's wrong with this picture? The city is undergoing its ritualistic mea culpas over the death of Cecilia Zhang and a monster is sentenced:

A former Kingston escort-agency operator admitted he once pimped his own wife and stepdaughter, and molested children aged four to 17 years old. "These were young males of tender and impressionable years," said Mr. Justice Arthur Gans in sentencing Shawn Bansfield, 47, to the equivalent of eight years and four months for three sexual-abuse offences and keeping a common bawdy house charges.

"You better govern yourself accordingly or you'll spend the rest of your living days in (prison)," Gans said.

Bansfield, who has 49 previous criminal convictions and four prior sexual offences, had never been sentenced to more than a year in jail, said Crown attorney Mary Humphrey.

Bansfield spent 38 months in jail awaiting trial and was given six years and four months credit.

He was given two years less a day on top of that and also sentenced to three years probation.

"If not incorrigible, he's a sociopath and remains a present danger," Gans said.

He then warned Bansfield he faced much longer sentences if he didn't curb his criminal lifestyle. (My bolding.)

17:50: It gets better and better. Today's editorial in the Toronto Sun posed the question How did we fail Cecilia? and some of today's stories are there answers. The first one is especially rant-worthy.

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