09-12-2011, 04:58 PM
i agree that hopley should have been kept confined. i can't pick on Canada because we are just as negligent.
i will say this...the father asked all websites and news outlets to remove all photos of Kienen...yet he allows more to be taken and published, along with his daughter: below. i'm not removing the photos. the child was the object of an Amber Alert and will remain in this thread. thankfully safe. unprecedented.
as of right now, hopley is still not in custody.
Montreal Gazette
SPARWOOD, B.C. — Paul Hebert issued a scathing attack on the criminal justice system that freed Randall Hopley, the man sought by police for the abduction of his three-year-old toddler.
The suspected kidnapper — a 46-year-old convicted sex offender with a long history of theft and break and enter — has evaded police since Kienan vanished from his bed on Wednesday morning.
Kienan's father, Paul Hebert, sat down with the media on Monday, the day after his son had been returned, unharmed, to the home from which he had been stolen.
He sat on a worn brown armchair. It was the place he found Kienan sleeping, wrapped in blankets on Sunday morning.
"How many people have felt (what it was like) to win the lotto? That wouldn't even compare. Finding Kienan sleeping was a meltdown. I felt a piece of my body go numb and I had no control," Paul Hebert said.
The father held his son for only a minute before handing the child to his mother.
Kienan said nothing.
"He just held on tight," he said.
Of course, all is not back to normal at the Hebert house.
Bedtime is hard, the father said. "There's trauma in the home," he said. "The kids have seen their brother get snatched."
And although Kienan could be seen just a day after his abduction playing on the lawn with his brothers and sisters, the boy seems nervous around new people.
It's something Hebert said the family would have to work on with the aid of professionals.
"We're kinda hoping it was like a road trip for him for four days and he was with some strangers," Hebert said.
The father said he has already forgiven Hopley, but he offered pointed condemnation of the criminal justice system that failed to help the suspect.
"Hopley, you know, Hopley was taken in because he had a problem and he had a record having a problem. Now Hopley is out for a reason. Because someone didn't do their job right, and it was not the police," Hebert said.
"The judges and the system failed us. Hopley needs help and the system didn't give him the help he needed and because of that, we have been affected. Our rights have been taken away and our family got hurt.
"If a doctor can get malpractice, why can't a judge?"
The Heberts, who have eight children, moved into their new home in November. The tidy residence with wood floors and family pictures on the walls sits in a mostly empty subdivision with few bushes and no mature trees. The fence had yet to be installed.
On the night of the kidnapping, Hebert said a door was unlocked.
The family is, otherwise, quite careful, he said.
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i will say this...the father asked all websites and news outlets to remove all photos of Kienen...yet he allows more to be taken and published, along with his daughter: below. i'm not removing the photos. the child was the object of an Amber Alert and will remain in this thread. thankfully safe. unprecedented.
as of right now, hopley is still not in custody.
Montreal Gazette
SPARWOOD, B.C. — Paul Hebert issued a scathing attack on the criminal justice system that freed Randall Hopley, the man sought by police for the abduction of his three-year-old toddler.
The suspected kidnapper — a 46-year-old convicted sex offender with a long history of theft and break and enter — has evaded police since Kienan vanished from his bed on Wednesday morning.
Kienan's father, Paul Hebert, sat down with the media on Monday, the day after his son had been returned, unharmed, to the home from which he had been stolen.
He sat on a worn brown armchair. It was the place he found Kienan sleeping, wrapped in blankets on Sunday morning.
"How many people have felt (what it was like) to win the lotto? That wouldn't even compare. Finding Kienan sleeping was a meltdown. I felt a piece of my body go numb and I had no control," Paul Hebert said.
The father held his son for only a minute before handing the child to his mother.
Kienan said nothing.
"He just held on tight," he said.
Of course, all is not back to normal at the Hebert house.
Bedtime is hard, the father said. "There's trauma in the home," he said. "The kids have seen their brother get snatched."
And although Kienan could be seen just a day after his abduction playing on the lawn with his brothers and sisters, the boy seems nervous around new people.
It's something Hebert said the family would have to work on with the aid of professionals.
"We're kinda hoping it was like a road trip for him for four days and he was with some strangers," Hebert said.
The father said he has already forgiven Hopley, but he offered pointed condemnation of the criminal justice system that failed to help the suspect.
"Hopley, you know, Hopley was taken in because he had a problem and he had a record having a problem. Now Hopley is out for a reason. Because someone didn't do their job right, and it was not the police," Hebert said.
"The judges and the system failed us. Hopley needs help and the system didn't give him the help he needed and because of that, we have been affected. Our rights have been taken away and our family got hurt.
"If a doctor can get malpractice, why can't a judge?"
The Heberts, who have eight children, moved into their new home in November. The tidy residence with wood floors and family pictures on the walls sits in a mostly empty subdivision with few bushes and no mature trees. The fence had yet to be installed.
On the night of the kidnapping, Hebert said a door was unlocked.
The family is, otherwise, quite careful, he said.