A Maltese-born convicted sex offender who tried to abduct a 12-year-old girl in broad daylight in Ontario, Canada, in December 2009, has been deported.
It is not known if Joseph Troisi, 54, has returned to Malta.
He had tried to force a young girl into his Cadillac after stopping her to ask for directions in 2009. The kidnapping was foiled by passers-by, who heard the girl screaming and rushed to save her.
An Ontario court deemed the attempted abduction sexually motivated and handed Mr Troisi a five-year prison sentence in June 2011.
He was also listed on Canada’s sex offender register for a decade, following a psychologist’s report which deemed Mr Troisi “a substantial risk to reoffend”.
Mr Troisi was granted parole a couple of months ago, having served some 15 months in prison while awaiting trial and another 15 months since then.
But Canadian laws clearly state that non-citizens convicted of serious crimes must be deported upon their release from jail.
The Times contacted Canadian immigration authorities to confirm Mr Troisi’s deportation.
Authorities said that data protection issues meant they “could not confirm or deny the removal of any individual”. They, however,...
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