Child Predators

"I don't ever want to be caught, as u can understand. No pill on earth will control me honestly. I NEVER hurt. I treat them like gold ... they are little princes. I have ... boys I'm grooming right now."
Donald Snook, Saint John, New Brunswick

Those were Internet messages through the medium of chat rooms that took place between Donald Snook and Toronto Police Sgt. Paul Krawczyk. Who is one of the global leading investigators in the creepy-crawly world of child molesters, child exploiters, child pornographiers.

"I never would have guessed all that stuff (could be ) true", Sgt. Krawczyk said during an interview. "I have never seen it." He meant he'd never come across such devotion before in his various investigations. In chat rooms predators usually brag about their access to children whom they sexually exploit to draw the admiring attention of others.

They enjoy speaking of their access to children, exaggerating the number of boys or girls they have access to, or the amount of pornographic literature or videos they have amassed, to impress others who share their brutally destructive fringe pathology. But this contact spoke of his access and he really did have extraordinary access to vulnerable, exploitable children.


Donald Snook now faces eight charges; possessing and making child pornography, and three coutns of sexual touching. Although more victims are coming forward all the time.  This man was a city councillor, a popular one, a community activist. And he was executive director of the Inner City Youth Ministry, affiliated with the local Anglican Church.

Operating after-school clubs, a hot-lunch program for children of three city schools, the charity also sent underprivileged children to summer camps. It operates swimming and hockey programs for these needy children. At city council, Mr. Snook was known for his advocacy on behalf of children and youth.

And the man, who just couldn't do enough to advance the well-being of children, was as well a foster parent with the province. RCMP broke down the door of his home due "to exigent circumstances" as the legal warrant in the possession put it, with the knowledge that Snook had a boy in his home whom police had reason to believe "could be at risk".

Mr. Snook had been under surveillance, once it was established where the online chats were emanating from with some excellent detection work. Const.Gordon Redfurn of the Saint John's family protection unit had been involved in the surveillance of this man. The RCMP's Internet Child Exploitation unit in Fredericton became the lead investigators.

Sgt. Krawczyk's chats with Donald Snook and the information gleaned from them were transmitted to the RCMP, and eventually it all came together. The charges were laid, the man resigned from his council seat, and has been suspended from his position with the youth ministry. What he most feared when discussing the "hunt of his life" with Sgt. Krawczyk, has occurred.

And with further good fortune for justice, Donald Snook should be put out of business for a long time.