Bomek Not Yet Out Of Jail: National Parole Board
Thursday, October 29, 2009 at 13:49
A spokesman for the National Parole Board is reassuring the public that a known sex offender isn’t walking the streets today.
A story in the Saskatoon Star Phoenix today says that James Michael Bomek was paroled on Monday.
Bomek, 60, has drawn headlines over the years.
In 2001, he was charged with over 40 counts of sexual assault in the Pelican Narrows region.
He ended up pleading guilty to nine of those charges.
Bomek was later released, but just a few years later, he was convicted again of sexual offenses against males under the age of 14.
He was sentenced to three-and-a-half years in jail for those crimes.
National Parole Board spokesman Darren Caul wants to set the record straight.
He says what actually happened was the board decided not to detain Bomek past his statutory release point of January 2010.
However, the board did decide to place a requirement on Bomek’s release that says he has to reside in a halfway house when getting out.
“That will ensure an added level of supervision by the Correctional Service of Canada, and that is the most restrictive special condition that the National Parole Board can impose on an offender who’s being released at the two-thirds point in accordance with law,” Caul says.
He says a three-member panel of the parole board conducted the detention hearing, in which they assessed Bomek’s risk to the community.