A former janitor accused of sex crimes against the son of a woman he met at Toronto Western Hospital where he worked pleaded guilty on Wednesday to 10 charges involving four children between 1997 and 2016.
Fifty-five-year-old Terrence Noftall was arrested in January 2018 and charged with eight counts involving the woman’s son.
After his arrest, more victims came forward and Toronto police laid more charges. Noftall admitted in court Wednesday morning to five counts of sexual assault involving four children — three boys and a girl.
According to the agreed statement of facts read out in court, in the case of the boy whose mother Noftall worked with at the hospital, the two of them met there in 2012.
Noftall admitted in court that he made the child watch adult porn when he was just 11 or 12 years old and masturbated the boy.
The court heard that in December 2017, when the boy was 16 years old, his mother found text messages from Noftall on her son’s phone that were child pornography.
The other victims came forward after his arrest. Court heard that two of the children were sexually assaulted at the Bee Happy Family Campground in Innisfil where Noftall often spent time during the summer. One incident involved a seven-year-old girl who he assaulted inside Noftall’s camping trailer in 2000. The other involved a boy between the age of nine and 13 some time between 2005 and 2009. That incident also happened inside Noftall’s trailer.
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Global News previously reported that at the time of his arrest, Noftall had been hired to work at Toronto Western Hospital in 2009 despite the fact he was a registered sex offender.
Noftall was hired at the hospital just seven months after getting out of jail after being convicted of touching for a sexual purpose in 2008. In that case, an eight-year-old boy with autism was touched by Noftall, who was the boy’s bus driver.
Noftall spent roughly nine months in jail for that offence and was placed on the sex offender registry for ten years.
The young victim’s mother told Global News that strict conditions were placed on Noftall including that he not go near children.
University Health Network officials issued a statement to Global News in January 2018 that background checks were not done on all its employees.
After Noftall pleaded guilty, the Crown attorney told Justice Anne Molloy that she will be applying to the attorney general’s office for permission to go ahead with a dangerous offender application. If that designation happens, Noftall’s lawyer, Jeff Chapnick, told Global News Noftall may never get out of jail.
Chapnick said he believes, based on precedent, a more reasonable sentence would be between three and four years in a penitentiary.
According to the government’s public safety website, dangerous offender designations are “intended to protect Canadians from the most dangerous violent and sexual predators in the country.”
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