Despite his decades of preying on young boys — first as a Scout leader in the 1970s, then as a Canadian Forces member in the 1980s — Donald Joseph Sullivan managed to avoid carrying a criminal record for his sex crimes until he was caught molesting a child in 2005.
Another 10 years would pass before the extent of his historical sex abuse would come to light when two men complained to police in 2015, the first of 11 victims from Sullivan’s time with Scouts Canada. The police investigation was launched in June 2018 and ended with a conviction and a six-year sentence, which Sullivan began serving earlier this year.
But according to court martial records obtained by this newspaper, Sullivan was effectively pardoned and released in 1986 after serving one year of a four-year sentence for five counts of gross indecency committed at CFB Gagetown in the early 1980s.
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