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Parole board revokes statutory release for Surrey sex offender and child kidnapper

A Surrey child kidnapper and rapist serving a 14-year prison term has lost the statutory release granted to him last year.

A Surrey child kidnapper and rapist serving a 14-year prison term has lost the statutory release granted to him last year.

In August 2017, Brian Abrosimo was given a “one-chance statutory release” to live in a halfway house under special conditions, including a curfew. He was allowed to go outside the home unsupervised for one-hour periods, but prohibited from being near his victims.

For the first 11 months, Abrosimo complied with guidelines “structured to supervise high risk/high needs offenders.”

After that, his behaviour started to change and escalated over a period of four weeks in a way consistent with his “offence cycle, as you were targeting/fixating on females (including a treating nurse, parole officers and other staff members) and wanting to have sexual contact,” according to a Parole Board of Canada document.

His release was suspended and he was put under house arrest. In August 2018, he applied to have the special conditions removed, but the parole board denied this and revoked his statutory release.

“In assessing your overall risk, the board can’t ignore the very serious and violent sexual offences you had committed, offences that escalated over time and became more violent and predatory in nature. You remain a very high risk for sexual recidivism, and it would appear from your behaviour that led to your recent suspension, that you continue to have difficulty internalizing program material and apply skills in the community,” said the document.

“You were provided with a rare opportunity,” the document read. “The board cannot ignore that this is your second federal sentence for sexually offending against females, and you have a history of using violence with weapons toward others.”

In 2006, Abrosimo received a 14-year sentence and 10-year supervision order for abducting an 11-year-old Langley girl off an Aldergrove road two years prior.

In 2004, he drove a van into two preteen girls riding their bicycles, forced one into his van, taped her eyes and mouth, and sexually assaulted her.

One month before kidnapping the Langley girl, he had been convicted of handcuffing a sex trade worker and violently assaulting and raping her.

His criminal record goes back to the mid-1980s. In 1992, he gagged and raped a former girlfriend in front of her children.

A parole board hearing in 2015 found Abrosimo too dangerous to be released, citing he would “likely commit an offence causing death or bodily harm to a person before the expiration of your sentence.”

A review in June 2016 ended in a split vote by parole board members, but in August 2017, he was granted the statutory release.