Strange Version of Justice

"[Larry Takahashi's sexual fantasies] no longer lead to deviant thinking. [He has expressed an] understanding of the impact [his] crimes had on [his] victims."
"You admitted to having more victims than those in the crimes for which you were convicted."
"You said it was possible that you had other victims whose charges against you were stayed or that you were not charged with."
"You are capable of extreme violence [while approving partial release]. You planned and pursued the victims; you were a cold, callous sexual offender with no regard for the plight of the victims."
Parole Board of Canada

Takahashi, shown here in an undated file photo, was sentenced to three life sentences for a series of sexual assaults in Edmonton in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

The above is the epitome of a conflicted ruling, making little sense in its conclusion, given the circumstances and observations made in the case of the psychopath whose heinous crimes impacted the lives of dozens upon dozens of victimized women, their families and the wider community shocked and terrorized at the realization of a sociopathic menace in their midst threatening public security

In the late 1970s Edmonton society became aware of a psychopathic threat against the safety of women that extended into the early 1980s, committed by a man wearing a sky mask, earning him the sobriquet of "balaclava rapist". The man was caught and arrested in 1983 and the community learned that Larry Takahashi was an unrepentant sadist whose victims' lives would never be the same again after he had demolished the structure of their existence.

He was charged with 70 horrendous sexual offences committed against 23 victims who included pregnant women and university students. A plea bargain was arranged with Takahashi agreeing to plead guilty to 14 charges; three of rape, six counts of forcible confinement and disguise with intent, and two counts of sexual assault with a weapon, and aggravated sexual assault. Whose official terms vaguely describe the violence and terror he inflicted on his vulnerable victims. 

This conscienceless psychopath was believed by investigating police to have assaulted over 100 women, one of whom miscarried twins after the attack in her apartment building. Another of the assaults he committed was that of a mother whose children were present as their mother was sexually assaulted. His victim-count obviously extended in a wider circle than the women he directed his violence against.

He began his criminal pursuit of violent sex inflicted on women through furtive activities like surveillance and masturbation, graduating over time to sexual assault with a weapon. By the time he was apprehended his last victim was informed by police that had they not taken him into custody when they did, he would have progressed to killing his victims for greater gratification of his sexual pathology.

At the time he was terrifying the public he was a married man with a child, living a normal life by day, transforming himself into a violent sexual predator at night. His final victim was 23 years old and pregnant with twins, when she was followed to her apartment building and attacked by him in a freight elevator. From there he dragged her into a storage room, beating and raping her.

Her abduction seen by a witness, police were called, and when they arrived and knocked on the storage room door, he used his karate black belt experience to knock the officers over and escaped. As he left his karate studio ten days later, police arrested him. He was convicted in 1984 on 14 counts of rape, to three concurrent life terms plus 73 years.

Of that life sentence he has served 30 years and is now 63 years of age.  Back when he had served less than a decade and a half he was eligible for escorted day passes under Canada's justice and parole system. Since then he had been given intermittent escorted day passes which led to years of parole events where he would be sent back to prison after violating release conditions.

Psychiatric assessments of recent vintage describe the man as "selfish, callous and remorseless" and still reporting sexual fantasies about committing his violent rapes, leading the Parole Board of Canada to consider him of moderate-to-high-risk of reoffending He is now once again on day parole even as the Correctional Service of Canada recommended full parole be granted.

Conditions of his release mandate return to a secure facility at night and that he not approach college and university campuses, while abstaining also from drugs, alcohol and computers. Parole Board spokesman Patrick Storey extolled Takahashi's admissions of sexual fantasies as a sign of progress, and his having fulfilled a number of jobs in prison to be to his further credit.

The previous Conservative government under Prime Minister Stephen Harper had designed a "life means life" bill to eliminate precisely this type of routine parole hearing formulation for those convicted of heinous crimes against society. Canada's definition of "life" in prison makes a lie of its very clearly stated punishment meted out in response to dreadful crimes.

In previous trials at reintegration into society for this unrepentant sexual narcissist he repeatedly ran counter to the restrictions placed on his behaviour and exposure to temptation. He used alcohol to excess, repeatedly contacted another convicted sex offender, and contracted for massage from a female therapist in his halfway house, violating release conditions.

And the justice system, each segment at odds with its counterpart, sees fit in the final analysis, to have this monster vacate incarceration for freedom to disport himself as his undisciplined carnal id advises him.

Takahashi, 61, was living a double life as a model citizen with a wife and child during the day, and a rapist by night. He started his crimes by peeping into women’s windows and masturbating, which quickly escalated to breaking into women’s homes and raping them while wearing a balaclava.
Hammermeister was 23 and pregnant with twins when she was attacked in the freight elevator of her Edmonton apartment as she was returning home about 1 a.m. on March 6, 1983.
Takahashi dragged her to a storage room and raped her while hitting her face and head.
A witness called police, and when officers arrived and knocked on the door, Takahashi, a black belt in karate, opened the door, knocked down the officers and fled.
Ten days later, a tactical team arrested Takahashi as he left his karate studio.
Takahashi admitted to attacking 30 women but police believe he could be responsible for more than 100 attacks.
In 1984, Takahashi was convicted on 14 counts of rape, sexual assault with a weapon, aggravated sexual assault and disguise with intent between 1979 and 1983, and sentenced to three concurrent life terms, plus 73 years.
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Takahashi, 61, was living a double life as a model citizen with a wife and child during the day, and a rapist by night. He started his crimes by peeping into women’s windows and masturbating, which quickly escalated to breaking into women’s homes and raping them while wearing a balaclava.
Hammermeister was 23 and pregnant with twins when she was attacked in the freight elevator of her Edmonton apartment as she was returning home about 1 a.m. on March 6, 1983.
Takahashi dragged her to a storage room and raped her while hitting her face and head.
A witness called police, and when officers arrived and knocked on the door, Takahashi, a black belt in karate, opened the door, knocked down the officers and fled.
Ten days later, a tactical team arrested Takahashi as he left his karate studio.
Takahashi admitted to attacking 30 women but police believe he could be responsible for more than 100 attacks.
In 1984, Takahashi was convicted on 14 counts of rape, sexual assault with a weapon, aggravated sexual assault and disguise with intent between 1979 and 1983, and sentenced to three concurrent life terms, plus 73 years.
- See more at: http://www.timescolonist.com/news/local/put-him-back-in-jail-says-victim-of-rapist-larry-takahashi-1.679152#sthash.uaLQPnA6.dpuf