How Not to Deal With a Murderer

Today’s “how not to do it” lesson comes from our neighbors to the north. Stephane Giroux reports for CTV in Montreal:

A parolee charged with murder had been allowed by his case manager to meet women for sex.

In 2004, Eustachio Gallese killed his wife, Chantale Deschenes, by beating her with a hammer before repeatedly stabbing her. A judge sentenced him to life in prison in 2006. After serving 15 years, in Sept. 2019, Gallese was granted day parole. Last week, while out on parole, Gallese entered a Quebec City hotel where 22-year-old sex worker Marylene Levesque gave massages. Police later arrested and charged him with her murder.

Gallese was on parole despite a moderate risk of reoffending, his case manager had written.

I suppose a “moderate risk of reoffending” is an acceptable one as long as it is someone else being murdered, right?

His case manager had also told him to avoid relationships but added that he could have encounters with women as long as it was strictly sexual.

What is this guy thinking?

Public Safety Minister Bill Blair told the House of Commons on Monday that a full investigation will be conducted jointly by the Commissioner of Corrections Services and the chair of the Parole Board of Canada to determine the circumstances surrounding Gallese’s release and ensure lessons are learned from it. Crime victims’ advocates have also decried the situation.

Here is a lesson. The recidivism rate among executed murderers is 0.0000000%.