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Nathan Zuccherato is looking for female friends to write to and get to know. He likes the Blue Jays, and he likes to read and work out.
Three guys looking for a female pen pal to make a connection and maybe, just maybe, to form a relationship with.
All innocent enough sounding until you realize that in addition to Johnston香蕉视频直播檚 self-identified skill of making a great baked spaghetti, he also murdered two innocent men and four rival gang members in the notorious Surrey Six slaughter in 2014.
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These are just three of the dozens of posts on the website where federal inmates look for pen pals.
The site香蕉视频直播檚 creator, Melissa Fazzina, said the website is her passion and she makes no apology for giving serious convicted criminals access to pen pals.
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Fazzina is adamant that one misconception about her site needs to be cleared up: inmates serving federal or provincial sentences in Canada do not have access to the Internet. She is the intermediary via snail mail.
Some of the worst offenders
The site is littered with names that ring a bell if you watch the news. For one, Momin Khowaja is looking for 香蕉视频直播渨omen/girls who are health conscious and fitness oriented香蕉视频直播�
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But what got up the ire of some Chilliwack residents was the posting for a man whose name cannot be used because of a publication ban. That香蕉视频直播檚 because K.D.C. was for the ongoing, violent rapes of his toddler stepdaughter.
When he was arrested at his downtown Chilliwack home on Oct. 4, 2012, police interrupted the man sexually assaulting the then three-year-old girl.
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(The mother of the victim is for her involvement in the case.)
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Because of the publication ban, when he applied to be on the site she found nothing on the Internet about him.
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The Times asked Fazzina to contact K.D.C. to see if he had anything to say to Chilliwack residents about him trying to connect with a woman after what he did to his last girlfriend香蕉视频直播檚 daughter.
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Chilliwack香蕉视频直播檚 federal representative in Ottawa doesn香蕉视频直播檛 like Fazzina香蕉视频直播檚 website and he said those convicted of serious crimes are separated from society for a reason.
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He added that while the site may be legal, he hopes the Minister of Public Safety will use all of the tools at his disposal to limit access to it.
But Fazzina said her site is a public service, giving the most serious offenders a second, sometimes a third or fourth, chance that in the end helps society.
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Who writes to a murderer?
So what type of a woman, or man, would want to write to a murderer or a pedophile or a bank robber?
Fazzina said there are all types, but she conceded it is often women with low self-esteem.
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Some of the women who write have no intention of ever meeting the men they write to. Some, in fact, prefer those who are in for the longest sentence possible.
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As for K.D.C., his expected statutory release date is Oct. 2, 2020.
