A child sex offender considered a high risk for re-offending, who Saint John and Halifax police both issued alerts about, has been granted leave privileges.
Harvey Venus, 39, a designated dangerous offender, has a lengthy criminal history, including sexual assault, assault causing bodily harm, assault, and sexual interference involving a girl under the age of 16.
He inappropriately touched the victim and took photos of her, while reportedly using an alias due to his sexual offence history, according to Parole Board of Canada documents.
He’s serving a nine-month, 31-day sentence at a community correctional centre in Halifax for breaching an eight-year long-term supervision order just three months after being released to a community correctional centre in Saint John in 2022.
He failed to disclose he started dating a woman with a child, lied to her about his criminal history, and was spending time alone with the child, contrary to the terms of his long-term supervision order.
Venus also has a history of breaches during community supervision and “a poor history of conditional release.
His statutory release on his first federal sentence was revoked after he admitted to meeting a 14-year-old girl and purchasing rolling papers for her so she could smoke drugs.
His statutory release in Halifax in February 2024 was revoked because he breached his conditions within a month. Officials found sexually explicit movies in his room, learned he failed to disclose a relationship with a female, and discovered he had accessed the internet via a cellphone, according to parole documents.
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