Here is an article about a man having his bail denied after sexually exploiting 7 different girls that were wards of CFS. I post to show yet again that CFS constantly fail to protect the children that they steal from families. How many of these girls would have not been sexually exploited had they not been in care?
The article states that a 55 year old man admitted to picking several girls up at their group home for sexual services. The girls ages are 12 to 17. This is disgusting. CFS has failed to protect these 7 girls in a major way. He gave them money, smokes, marijuana, booze and prescription drugs in exchange for sexual favors from these girls. These girls were group home girls which means they did not have very many ways to earn money and were desperate to escape their "reality" this left them vulnerable to be groomed by predators.
The article is quoted as " A 55-year-old Winnipeg man who admitted he regularly picked up underage Indigenous girls from their group homes to have sex with them made an unusual attempt to be released from jail on Tuesday.
Eric Gudmandson is in custody awaiting his sentence, after he pleaded guilty last fall to several charges of obtaining sexual services from seven girls who were all between the ages of 12 and 17, and were all either in the care of Child and Family Services (CFS) or wards of CFS. All but one of the girls had been repeatedly abused by Gudmandson, who traded them combinations of cash, marijuana, alcohol, tobacco and prescription drugs for sex.
Provincial court Judge Cynthia Devine denied his bail request on Tuesday — a rare task for a judge who had already heard the accused apologize for his crimes at a sentencing hearing.
While details of Gudmandson’s bail hearing are covered under a court-ordered publication ban, details of his sexual offences against the underage girls became part of the public record during his sentencing hearing in December. At the time, Gudmandson read from a handwritten letter, telling Devine he felt shame and regret, and said he suffered from a sex addiction.
The judge heard about the circumstances of the young girls, who were described as some of the most vulnerable children. One of them had come to the city for therapy after a suicide attempt and ran away from her family.
"She was easy prey for this predator," Crown attorney Alanna Hall said of Gudmandson at his sentencing hearing.
In a handwritten statement of her own, one of the girls expressed how she had never been into drugs and never thought of "selling myself" until Gudmandson came into her life and sent her "downhill." Another girl, who felt she had nowhere safe to go, described how Gudmandson would promise to let her stay the night at his apartment if she had sex with him."
Its disgusting to see what happens to kids in care sometimes. This man should do life in prison considering the number of girls that became victimized by this sick fuck. These girls became victimized as wards of CFS. More needs to be done to protect these kids by these predators. More needs to be done to help these kids earn money in healthy ways. Child and Family services needs to be held accountable for what happens to the children they are to protect.