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Rapist lands in town; no warning
Arborg residents fume after release
JUST days after a violent rapist left prison, residents of Arborg are upset the convicted sex offender is living in their community with no warning from authorities.
John Dolphus Twins is now living on a farm with his wife near the approximately 1,000-resident Interlake community about 100 kilometres north of Winnipeg, confirmed a town official.
Twins served every day of his 14-year-and-seven-day jail sentence for a Calgary robbery in March 1993 in which he raped a female resident he encountered during a break-and-enter in a basement suite.
During the three-hour ordeal, Twins blindfolded the woman, bound her with tape and committed 15 violent sexual acts on the woman while using her camera to document the assaults as they happened.
He was jailed in March 1995.
Arborg Mayor Randy Sigurdson said he received a handful of calls from concerned citizens after Twins moved to the community to live with his wife.
"You know how it is in a small town."
Sigurdson said the community received no formal notification of Twins' release. The mayor spoke to the RCMP about the matter. "They just said he's free to live wherever he wants... he's a free man."
Irate Arborg residents also contacted the Free Press this week.
At Twins' most recent National Parole Board hearing in November 2008, board members said they had serious concerns about releasing Twins. Previous hearings noted Twins had "inappropriate sexual behaviours towards female (prison) staff" and exposed himself to women who worked as correctional officers in his prison.
"Your case management team reports significant concerns with your continued display of sexually inappropriate behaviour and interpersonal aggression," said the report addressed to Twins, who is in his late 40s.
"Your case management team reports that this, coupled with the severity of your offence, your extensive history of violence and your dismal release history, your risk remains unmanageable in the community on a conditional release."
The National Parole Board reports note Twins had a wife who lived on a farm in Manitoba. According to these same reports, the final day of Twins' sentence was last Saturday.
Gimli RCMP Staff Sgt. Del Allen confirmed his detachment received calls about Twins' relocation to the Arborg area, but said the issue is not one that involves the Mounties.
"We've had people from Arborg phoning our office and inquiring about this particular gentleman but obviously for confidentiality reasons, we can't release any material on him," said Allen.
"I can't really talk to you about him."
Twins applied for parole unsuccessfully in 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008.
The 2007 parole board refusal notes Twins attended a prison chapel and programming. The same report notes Twins is at a "moderate-high risk for recidivism; this based partly on the fact that (Twins has) no interest in attending a halfway facility and (is) negative about any sort of supervision plan."
gabrielle.giroday@freepress.mb.ca
Republished from the Winnipeg Free Press print edition March 19, 2009 A3
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