The mugshot of disgraced former deputy education minister Benjamin Levin.
TORONTO, October 2, 2017 (LifeSiteNews) — Benjamin Levin, the former Liberal deputy minister of education sentenced to three years in prison for three child pornography-related convictions, was paroled in January, a parents’ rights group has discovered.
Levin went to jail May 29, 2015, after pleading guilty in March to one count of possession of child pornography, one count of making written child pornography and one count of counselling someone to commit the indictable offence of rape.
Tanya Granic Allen, executive director of Parents As First Educators (PAFE), revealed in an email to supporters last week that Levin was paroled January 10, 2017, after serving 19 months and 12 days.
Typically, Canada releases convicted criminals after they serve two-thirds of their sentence; Levin was some six months shy of that.
“While Mr. Levin has served 60 percent of his sentence for his crimes, the sex-ed curriculum he helped develop is a plague in 100 percent of our schools — whether politicians and parents want to acknowledge it or not,” wrote Granic Allen.
Jack Fonseca, Campaign Life Coalition’s senior political strategist, agrees.
While “worrisome” Levin has been released
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