Canadian sex ofender sentenced to long term status

(Original Post 5-13-08)

A repeat sex offender said to the judge at his sentencing hearing that he's had enough jail.

"I don't want no more of this," he told Superior Court Justice Helen Rady yesterday.
"Considering the facts of the case, and how long I've been in, it's been too much."

Middlesex Crown attorney Geoff Beasley said the victim in the case will be affected by the attack for a lot longer.

In her victim impact statement, the woman, whose identity is protected, said the attack changed her life. She lives in constant fear, she never went back the townhouse after she convinced Froude to leave that night and fears for her children. She has even thought of changing her name.

"What happened to me isn't something I can forgive, forget or get over," she wrote. "It is something I must live through and live with."

Froude's previous sex convictions involved victims he either knew, or were prison officials, Beasley noted, and it was "not at all a coincidence" as Froude claimed, that he was in the London woman's townhouse that night. Beasley argued Froude should get enhanced credit for only some of his time in custody.

Froude's lawyer, Craig McLean, said with his time in custody, given a two-for-one credit, the sentence should be time served -- the equivalent of a 7 1/2 -year sentence.
Rady reserved her decision to Friday.

Kenneth Wayne Froude is no stranger to sex crimes. When he's sentenced today for an attack on a London woman in her Bentley Drive townhouse almost four years ago, it'll be his fourth sentencing for sexual assault, to go along with two convictions of committing indecent acts.
That behaviour led Superior Court Justice Helen Rady to declare Froude, 39, a long-term offender last week.

With that, Froude will be under Corrections Canada's supervision after his most recent prison sentence. He was convicted a year ago for the attack on the London woman, a single mother he knew from taking the bus.

On June 21, 2004, the woman, her kids away so she could study for university exams, woke up in her bedroom and found Froude there with a kitchen steak knife. She wrestled him when he tried to pull down her pants and refused his requests for sex. She complied with one sex act when he promised to leave if she did as he said.

She eventually convinced him to leave. She had minor injuries to her face and neck.
Froude hasn't had any sex-offender treatment, although it was recommended in 1998.
Rady, in court, noted Froude had a comprehensive psychiatric assessment which showed he is "a moderate to high risk" to reoffend. Psychiatrist Stephen Hucker found Froude showed signs of being prone to rape exhibitionism, voyeurism, substance abuse and anti-social personality disorder.

But Hucker said Froude is open to treatment and there's "a reasonable possibility" of controlling risk to re-offend.

1990: Sentenced to two months for sexually assaulting a co-worker driving him home.
1997: Sentenced to four years for sexually assaulting a friend he attacked in her bedroom, punching her, tying her arms with his belt, covering her face with a pillow, and warning her not to call police.
1998: Exposed himself to a female staffer at Millhaven prison; sentenced to 45 days.
2000: Sentenced to five months; exposed himself to a Kingston prison psychologist.
2003: Sentenced for sexual assault

(Update 5-18-08) Froude was sentenced to 30 months in prison for the sexual assault. Superior Court Justice Helen Rady called the rape "any woman's worst nightmare."