Small Victories

You would almost think that someone reads my blog and took my request to heart.

Have a quick peek back to these two blogs for a refresher about this.

The place where nightmares are made - April 13, 2009

I swear I was out of town - March 21, 2010


I was pleasantly surprised last week when I heard on the news and read in the paper that New Brunswick's Supply and Services Department rolled in and flattened the vacant buildings at Kingsclear Central Reformatory.
It only took them one day to smash them to the ground.
I wish I had known it was going to happen. I would have liked to see that.

As you know I have stated publicly on many occasions that this should be done.
Kingsclear Reformatory is a horrible place that will haunt the province's soul forever.
Many boys were molested by those charged to watch over them and help turn their lives around. Instead lives were destroyed.
For many years the buildings had sat vacant and looming over the Saint John River valley as a reminder for everyone who passed by.

I saw no way that a good use could ever be put to the buildings when such horrible things took place here.
The buildings had to come down.

Now they have except for that large white boarded-up house. I'm not sure what they are thinking in keeping that. They should just finish the job and rip that place down as well.

I had to see for myself and so I scooted out there last Thursday and took a few pictures of the great work.








This was the way it looked before the demolition.




A much better view now, wouldn't you agree?

In a coincidence and related news I read a couple of weeks ago that the world's slimiest slimeball Karl Toft was released from custody on May 4 after being charged with breaching the conditions of his recognizance order.

For those just tuning in dirtbag Toft was a major player in the whole scandal and was convicted of molesting more than 200 boys in the 1980's while working in Kingsclear Reformatory for three decades.

I suppose I've said enough in my other blog posts to show how I feel about this lowlife.
He was released from jail in Edmonton in 2001 and stayed there after realizing that returning to New Brunswick would likely be detrimental to his health. (You know what I mean.)

It appears that Mr. Toft was seen in a fast-food restaurant. However, his recognizance order forbids him from being anywhere that might be frequented by children. Fast food restaurants are frequented by children so this scumbag will have to learn to buy his food and prepare his meals at home.
This is a minor inconvenience when you consider his luxury of living among free citizens. I do not believe that he deserves that luxury.

This is the first time he's been charged with breaching his order but I'm betting it won't be the last.
We're watching you Toft. Very closely. If you think this freedom thing is ever going to be easy, think again.

I wish there was more that we could do to make Toft's life totally miserable but this will have to do.
For now.


Stay well,
Tim

The Place Where Nightmares Are Made

This afternoon I drove along the south side of the Saint John River on Highway 102 from Fredericton towards the Mactaquac Dam, then on along to my father and stepmother's place in Lower Queensbury.
Every time I travel this route I pass the haunting reminder a horrific period of New Brunswick and Canadian history.
This place has been closed for years now.
The buildings sit empty except for the ghosts that must exist here.
The ghosts are good company for the skeletons that sat in the closet of the province for so many years.
Spelled out clearly over the front doors are the words "New Brunswick Central Reformatory". Most people remember it as Kingsclear Reformatory.
It was here that New Brunswick's most infamous pedophile, Karl Toft, now 71 years old, is believed to have molested more than 200 boys while serving as a guard.
As a result he was imprisoned for 13 years.
I recall in the news in 2005 that he had decided to remain in Edmonton following his 3 year stay at a halfway house there.
I'm guessing that he realized that he would not survive very long if he chose to return to New Brunswick.
Good decision Mr. Toft.
There is an interesting report posted here http://www.cpc-cpp.gc.ca/prr/inv/Kingsclear/rep-rap/kingsclearR4-eng.aspx concerning the investigation into the Kingsclear horrors. The web site is "Commission for Public Complaints Against the RCMP". It is quite an interesting read.
In the Edmonton Sun of May 21, 2008 Karl Toft was interviewed and said "I'm so very, very sorry".
He said he owes the people of New Brunswick "one heck of a lot," "financially, along with the damage I did to their children."I've hurt everybody in the province of New Brunswick."
Well I guess that makes everything all better Mr. Toft. You are sorry so you can come back to New Brunswick now into our open arms.
You bastard. You are sorry that you were caught!
If no one ever found out about anything that you did to those poor kids you would have peacefully carried on to the end of your days as you were.
You filthy bastard.
Even if you never look at another young boy again the damage has been done.
13 years is NOTHING for what you did to those kids which will haunt them for the rest of their lives.
I wish I could have a few minutes with Karl Toft to show him how I think his penalty should be served.
1 minute. Give me 1 minute. That's all I need.
What is interesting is that Toft was in my father's Rover Scout group.
Dad says that he always seemed a bit odd.
Even then he had a thing for young boys. I read that he was violating boys when he was a Scout leader at 16 years old.
I'll say it again. You are a slimy bastard, Karl Toft.
You deserve to be beaten within an inch of your life, given time to recover fully and then be beaten again.
I suppose I may be a bit emotional about these things but nothing turns my stomach more than those in positions of trust violating the weaker members of our society.
The children placed in Kingsclear Reformatory were placed there for other reasons but these horrors must have pushed them further down into the depths of their personal hells.
It was stated several years ago that the late New Brunswick Premier Richard Hatfield had been identified by several former Kingsclear residents as having been with Kingsclear children taken from the institution. The actual truth of that allegation will probably never be known.
An article that mentioned that if Karl Toft ever came back to New Brunswick he may be able to confirm the allegations against Premier Hatfield which would tarnish the image of the provincial Conservatives.
Here's a question.
Who the HELL would ever place any validity or truth in something that Karl Toft would say?? Really. If he was capable of such pure evil what makes anything he says have any semblance of truth?
Thirteen years of incarceration? Not bloody likely!
It was no secret that Richard Hatfield was a homosexual and led a pretty wild lifestyle.
He was acquitted of marijuana possession charges but rumours of Premiere Hatfield's taste for teenage boys was gossip throughout New Brunswick.
Based on this I would personally believe without a doubt that he was part of the molestation that took place at Kingsclear.
However he will never be able to confess to it.
We can't place any value on what scumbag Toft could say, even if he wishes us to believe that he feels remorse for his actions.
I wish we could take what the accusers say as fact but the legal system doesn't work like that.
We will never know the truth about Richard Hatfield.

We do know all about Toft though and as long as he walks free I will feel sick at the thought.

What boggles my mind is that the provincial government has allowed the buildings at Kingsclear to remain standing for all this time.
They are not being used for anything at all.
They just sit there closed off as the haunting reminder of what happened behind their walls.
This isn't a tourist destination like Alcatraz with mystery and intrigue and wondrous stories of the many interesting inmates it once housed.
There were only children who will never recover from the nightmares they faced here at the hands of those paid to watch over them.

The property is made up of approximately 25 acres of land and several buildings including a two-storey house, administration office, garage-workshop, detention facility, dormitory, kitchen and dining hall, and a laundry and boiler room.
Sounds like quite a place doesn't it?
In May 2007 the province announced that it had found a buyer for the property. For some reason that deal appears to have fallen through.
I'm curious who would want to own a place like this?
As nice as the buildings could look the true ugliness could never be masked.

It is my opinion that every building here should be torn down and all traces demolished and taken away. I like this route and enjoy the nice views along here.
What I don't like is looking up and seeing this place in full view on the hill.
There are several gravestones on the front hill of the property. I have never had the chance or the heart to see what they say on them. I don't want to know the stories behind them.
It may give me more nightmares about this place than I already have.

Enough is enough.

Tear this place down.

And give me 1 minute alone with Karl Toft.

Tim



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