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Gordon Stuckless Doesn't Meet Dangerous Offender Status: Psychiatric Assessment

Darpan News Desk The Canadian Press, 15 Oct, 2015 11:31 AM

TORONTO — A court-ordered psychiatric assessment has found that the man at the centre of the Maple Leaf Gardens sex abuse scandal does not meet the criteria for dangerous offender status.

The 38-page report on Gordon Stuckless was compiled by Dr. Mark Pearce, a forensic psychiatrist at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health.

Pearce found Stuckless suffers from "homosexual pedohebephilia" but does not have a major mental illness.

Stuckless pleaded guilty in 1997 to sex assaults on two dozen boys while he was an usher at Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto.

In 2013, police announced fresh charges against him. He pleaded guilty last year to 100 charges related to the sexual abuse of 18 boys decades ago.

He was also found guilty last fall of two charges of gross indecency linked to two of the 18 victims. His case is currently in its sentencing phase.

The Crown prosecutor in the case has indicated she intends to seek a dangerous offender designation for Stuckless, which would allow an indefinite sentence.

Stuckless' lawyer has said the label is unwarranted and says Pearce's report has now confirmed that Stuckless is not currently an unmanageable risk to society.

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