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No charges, no trial, but presumed guilty
Robert Cribb
Toronto Star
May 17th, 2014
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This is so incredibly unfair. Instead of "innocent until proven guilty," it's "guilty even if proven innocent." Do background checks work like this in the United States too?
Robert Cribb
Toronto Star
May 17th, 2014
It was to be Gordon Sinclair’s last chance.
At 46, after decades of getting by on contracts in the animation industry and then working long hours as a chef, he decided to pursue a career that matched his abilities to his passion. He enrolled in George Brown College to become a nurse.
“I was excited,” says Sinclair, now 50. “I wanted to go to Africa and work with Doctors Without Borders. Those plans have all been ruined.”
In 2011, with thousands of dollars spend on tuition and two semesters on the Dean’s Honour List, Sinclair was forced out of the program when charges from 20 years before showed up on a mandatory police check.
The charges — he had been rounded up in a raid on the comic book store where he worked — were never proven and were dismissed by a judge. By any measure, Gordon Sinclair was and is innocent.
Read the full story here.
This is so incredibly unfair. Instead of "innocent until proven guilty," it's "guilty even if proven innocent." Do background checks work like this in the United States too?