Wolf in sheep's clothing

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We have to admit that there are so many skeletons hidden in many people's closet. But it is hard to imagine a professor who is so bad that he claimed he had sex with his own daughters.

6 L, q+ s" b% NThis story reminds us of the former Colonel in the Canadian Forces, Russell Williams as the unbelievable convicted murderer and rapist.

The following is the detailed story:
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6 V/ {" @6 C2 K; n' ^7 w! t3 N2 @  s  ^By day, Ben Levin was the esteemed educator, tenured U of T professor, former Ontario deputy education minister, the expert who had the ear of premiers and leaders the world over.

7 b( S7 a- q3 W' D2 m6 k/ bAnd in his off hours? He liked to frequent an online incest chat room to counsel single moms on how to sexually assault their daughters for his pleasure and theirs, a site where his profile listed his sexuality as “nothing is taboo.”
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1 Y: U+ s# c' |9 @9 p8 \/ zHow frightening to think this was the man who had so much influence on education in this province and beyond. A look at his Facebook page shows that he was speaking at conferences and workshops around the globe before his July 2013 arrest. And all the while, he was going back to his hotel room and logging on to the “M” website — its real name concealed due to ongoing investigations — where he shared, created and discussed the sexual abuse of the very children he sought to educate.
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Levin was the proverbial wolf in sheep’s clothing. And now the wolf has been exposed in all his ugliness and depravity.
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His grey-haired head almost buried in his chest, the 63-year-old listened resignedly as the court outlined the agreed statement of facts behind his guilty plea to three offences: creating child pornography, possessing child porn and counselling to commit a sexual assault.

The details were so sick they drew gasps from those who filled the North York courtroom. “It’s even worse than you could imagine,” whispered one woman.

9 L+ H# K0 `- h) Q- r4 F$ |On Aug. 12, 2012, Toronto Police Det.-Const. Janelle Blackadar went on the site posing as a sexually submissive single mother interested in the sexualization of her children. Levin encouraged her to sexually touch her two daughters and told her he had done the same to his own three girls when they were as young as 12. The court heard, though, that it was all talk — there’s no evidence Levin sexually abused his daughters and faces no such charges.
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5 @7 T' r+ }: d4 v- B2 B, uIn December, 2012, he was also online with Angela Johnson, a London, Ont. investigator posing as a single mom of three kids. Levin also told her he had been sexually active with his own daughters. “Miss that a lot,” he said online, “but we had many wonderful years.”
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0 Z! o$ r  s9 N+ L# }/ u! }“Mr. Levin also stated that he hoped his daughters would ‘share’ their own children (his grandchildren) with him and his wife,” Crown attorney Allison Dellandrea said in reading the agreed statement.
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The renowned educator told the London “mom” he would like to “f--- all 3 (of her children) in front of you with your help ... would they submit or would I need to tie them?” Told he would have to be gentle, Levin pledged “no punishment or pain in exchange for your active help and encouragement.”

Between Jan. 29 and July 4, 2013, Levin was chatting on the same website with a single mom from New Zealand who was really investigator Russell Joe Gray. At Gray’s request, Levin wrote a story depicting the violent sexual assault of a 10-year-old.

On June 12, 2013, Blackadar from Toronto Police posed as a different single mom. Levin instructed her on how to groom her daughter for sex and then how to sexually assault her. “Mr. Levin asked D.C. Blackadar if she would hurt her child to ‘please him,’” the prosecutor said.

The Jekyll and Hyde of this man was beyond belief. The Crown told the court that while Levin was counselling this Toronto “mom” on how to sexually assault her child, he was in Norway conducting workshops with municipal leaders in education.
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) R4 N5 o' N  m- I) T, jUpon Levin’s arrest, police found a Word document containing information on 1,750 people he had chatted with online about incest, including their children’s ages. He identified some of the users as “fake” but that description didn’t appear beside the names of the three undercover investigators.

Lawyer Clayton Ruby insisted Levin’s “motive was to fulfill his own fantasy,” that this was simply role play and he never had any actual sexual contact with children.
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! J+ K( }- T: P6 g* P+ X) q" r- R“I apologize unreservedly,” Levin said in a statement released by his lawyer. “I am deeply ashamed of these actions and highly aware that they have caused a great deal of hurt to many people.
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“I am appalled every day that my behaviour fell so far below my own standards and previous actions which has led to the loss of my reputation and the loss of my livelihood.”

Or is this wolf just sorry he was finally unmasked?