Convicted Calgary rapist can’t be managed in the community: parole board

The Parole Board of Canada is recommending charges be laid against a violent repeat sex offender who attacked two Calgary women.

READ MORE: Man behind horrific sex assaults released from jail, deemed high risk to reoffend

Marcel Parent, 39, is in custody after his Long Term Supervision Order (LTSO) was suspended. The order included strict monitoring in the community for ten years.

After violating his conditions several times, the board has recommended Parent again be charged with breaching his LTSO and concluded he is unwilling or unable to follow the rules at a halfway house.

In the Oct. 22 ruling, officials said:

“There is no appropriate program of supervision that can be established that will adequately protect society from the risk that you will reoffend.”

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The board noted he is assessed at a “high risk for violent re-offending and very high risk for sexual re-offending.”

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In January 2015, he walked away from his Vancouver halfway house, where he was ordered to live under the LTSO.

Then in August 2016—two months after being released into the community—he again went missing.

The following day he was arrested in a woman’s apartment. That woman didn’t know Parent’s real name and was not aware of his criminal past.

According to parole documents obtained by Global News, Parent admitted to meeting the woman online and had already met her on several coffee dates.

Once she learned of Parent’s criminal history, she said she wanted no further contact with him.

Watch below from January 2015 : A Canada-wide warrant has been issued for Marcel Parent. As Nancy Hixt reports, one of his victims fears he will re-offend.

Parent has a history of sexual and violent offending, using weapons and threatening his victims.

In one case, he was convicted of attacking a woman at a Calgary tanning salon and repeatedly raped her.

The victim has told Global News repeatedly she feels he will reoffend.

“He had conditions after he was let out after me, he was on probation for a year,” she said. “Did that stop him from trying the exact same thing again? No, he’ll never stop.”

Tweet This Click to share quote on Twitter: "He had conditions after he was let out after me, he was on probation for a year," she said. "Did that stop him from trying the exact same thing again? No, he'll never stop."