MONTREAL – A former elementary school teacher who sexually assaulted five of his students and was caught with child pornography after serving his first prison term is set to be released soon on his second stint in a federal penitentiary.
David Wadsworth, 56, is scheduled to reach the two-thirds mark, the statutory release date, of his 28-month sentence sometime late this month or early in March. He received a 40-month sentence in 2009 after pleading guilty in Montreal court to producing, distributing and possessing child pornography. With time served factored into the sentence he had a little more than 28 months to serve.
He was charged in Montreal in 2007 after 45 photographs found on the computer of a man in the United Kingdom were traced to Wadsworth who was subsequently found to have more than 700 files containing child pornography on his computer.
Three years previous to that arrest, he had been released from a penitentiary after receiving a 5-year prison term, in 2000, for sexually assaulting five students, while he was an elementary school teacher in Pincourt, and committing gross indecency on three other students.
The sexual assault victims came forward after Wadsworth was caught with child pornography in 1999 while he worked as vice-principal at John Rennie High School.
After pleading guilty in the more recent case, Wadsworth was declared a long-term offender which means his release from a penitentiary is supposed to be closely monitored for the next ten years. A sample of his DNA will be stored in a national sex-offender registry for 20 years.
The National Parole Board had the option of imposing conditions to what remains of Wadsworth’s prison sentence. After recently reviewing Wadsworth’s file, board member Michel Pallascio, decided to impose six.
One requires Wadsworth to keep following a treatment program for his sexual deviancy. Despite having completed sex offender programs during his first sentence, Wadsworth was found to exhibit the same deviant profile when evaluated in September 2009.
According to a written summary of the parole board decision: "(Wadsworth exhibits) non-exclusive bisexual pedophilia and sado-masochistic paraphilia and you appear to be sexually aroused when in both dominant and submissive postures. You also exhibit obsessive compulsive personality traits."
The board was also informed that following his first sentence Wadsworth "used the services of more than 200 prostitutes, both men and women." Because of this one of his release conditions requires him not to associate with prostitutes.
He also has to refrain from accessing the Internet through a computer or any other devices, like a cellphone. If Wadsworth does own a computer during the roughly ten months left on his sentence a parole officer can search it at any time.
He is also prohibited from being in the presence of minors without being accompanied by a responsible adult and from frequenting public parks, swimming areas or other areas where children can reasonable be expected to be present.
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