World-wide petition for April's Law in Canada

Dear Mr. Nicholson,

The following are the proposed changes to Canadian laws:

We, the undersigned, as citizens and registered voters, do hereby petition for the passage of law regulating the maintaining, or promoting, or building, or hosting, or supporting, or sponsoring, or being connected in any way to any website that promotes, encourages, panders, or solicits the sexual exploitation of children. These laws shall apply to private, public, or commercial enterprises whether they be individual or corporate. We feel that the use of these websites encourages crimes against children of a depraved sexual nature; that the existence of these sites serve no public or community good use; that the only visitors of the sites are child predators or potential child predators; that the sites entice, incite, or inflame the sick passions of child predators; that the sites present a clear and present danger to our children.

We believe that no internet service provider, internet hosting service, web hosts, or any other private, public, or commercial service that provide data centre space and/or connectivity to the internet or to any local area network, should be legally able to host or provide any type of service to any individual, website, or organization that encourages sex crimes against children. This includes any website, service, or individual that portrays children in a sexually suggestive manner, any support system, website, blog, audio or video service, or hosting services that verify and encourage pedophiles to continue with their criminal urges against children, and any type of pornography that is digitally enhanced, touched up, or otherwise altered to make the individuals engaging in sex acts to resemble children in a realistic manner. We demand that these web sites be made illegal in Canada.

We feel that because of this danger, that the maintenance of a child predator web site is a conspiracy to commit a sex crime against a child, and is so grievous in nature that it should be classified as a felony.

We therefore petition for the following sanctions against these web sites:

1. All persons involved in these web sites shall pay a fine of $250,000; have all computer equipment involved, seized and donated to a local school.
   
2. All persons involved to be required to be a registered sex offender.
   
3. All persons involved to be restricted from internet access.
   
4. Be sentenced to 25 years, and be required to serve a mandatory 5 year sentence in jail followed by 20 years probation.

We, the undersigned, as citizens and as registered voters, do hereby petition for the passage of the following laws to see all child predators have mandatory sentences that prohibit them from returning to the streets to re-offend. As citizens of Canada, and of the entire global community, we believe that the sentencing guidelines for those who kidnap, sexually molest, and/or kill children, (any person age 17 and under) are entirely too lenient.

April%u2019s Law was enacted because we recognize that those who prey on children cannot be %u201Cfixed%u201D.  It is a compulsion that even those at the top of the psychology field have yet to truly understand. There is no cure, and our children are in imminent danger. We are also tired of hearing about child predators being released back into our streets so that they may re-offend.

We believe that just punishment for the following crimes should be as such:

1st degree murder of a child will automatically a capital offence. This will also include any death of a child as the result of abuse and/or neglect.

Conviction will result in a minimum sentence of life without parole, and a maximum sentence of death.

Child rape: Mandatory life with no chance of parole.

Child pornography:

1. Distribution: 25 years to life.

1. %u201CSimple%u201D possession with no intent to distribute: minimum sentence of 15 years.

These laws are called April%u2019s Law after April, (Deb Rowbury%u2019s daughter) who was raped and left with a venereal disease at 6 years of age. Her attacker was convicted, but served only 12 months. Upon release, he spent his time frequenting pedophilic web sites, until he was arrested again for raping another child. This time his sentence was only 10 years. He is still no where to be found on a sex offender registry.