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Barry artsite, Now Public Contributor
Certainly the question that begs answering is, how come he wasn't deported on his first serious criminal offence. This would have prevented a Rape of a woman.
Certainly answers are needed to a growing problem, when Rape seems to be lumped in with Car Theft, Drug Dealing when sentences are meted out lieniently.
Perhaps, the Justice System, Immigration Canada and the Refugee Board should be held accountable to this woman, including dismissal for the job or heavy, heavy fines for incompetence.
Rapist fights deportation as gov't verifies his I.D.
By GLENN KAUTH, SUN MEDIAThe Edmonton Sun
Federal authorities want to deport the rapist known as Samuel Luin back to his native Sudan, but they first have to verify his changing identity.
At a detention hearing in Edmonton, a lawyer for the federal government revealed that Luin, 24, now says his real name is Absahalum Duud Hajer.
The resulting confusion further complicates efforts to send Luin, whose deportation already was in limbo due to a lack of travel documents, back home.
The situation means Luin could face a "very lengthy" time in custody as Canadian Immigration officials travel to the Sudan to try to figure out who he is, according to lawyer Zonia Tock, who spoke at the hearing in Edmonton.
ENTERED CANADA IN 2002
Luin first came to Canada in 2002 as a refugee on an exemption from having a travel document.
Since then, he's managed to ring up a series of criminal convictions, including one for the 2005 rape of a 19-year-old woman in Edmonton's Callingwood area.
In addition to serving jail time for several assaults over the years, Luin is also set to face a trial in June for assaulting a prison corrections officer.
For the stepmother of the victim of the brutal 2005 Edmonton rape, the difficulties in deporting Luin are proof of major problems in the immigration system.
"If we can just let people in with some fake name and no documents, who's in our country? We did no checks, obviously," said the woman, who according to a court-ordered publication ban can't be identified.
Luin is arguing officials are holding him unfairly while he awaits deportation. At a recent hearing before the Immigration and Refugee Board (IRB), he said his failure to report to probation after his release from jail in December was the result of a misunderstanding.
His lawyer, meanwhile, told an IRB hearing last week that a friend Luin met in recent months was willing to put up $1,000 in bail and help him find housing and a job should the board let him go.
VICTIM'S STEPMOM
But the victim's stepmom said the friend told her after the hearing that Luin claimed he was in jail over a fight with his girlfriend. After learning of Luin's long history of violence, the man was no longer willing to offer bail, she said.
Luin's immigration fiasco first came to light in December after he finished serving his sentence for the rape. Since then, Immigration Minister Diane Finley has declared him a danger to the public, something that's required to deport refugees.
His initial release prompted public anger, and now the victim's stepmom worries that may happen again.
"How long can they keep him?" she asked, adding she's relieved the IRB has ordered him to remain in custody for now.
She also believes Luin's case isn't an isolated one.
Just last month, officials in Vancouver deported Somali refugee Mohamed Hagi Mohamud back to his home country after he raped a 33-year-old mother from nearby Surrey.
That attack happened while he was out of jail pending a deportation hearing for two previous assaults.
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