Regina Provincial Court House. (CJME)

By Susan McNeil

Dangerous offender

Fond du Lac pedophile declared dangerous offender

Jul 2, 2024 | 2:36 PM

A Fond du Lac man who has been convicted of multiple incidents of sexually assaulting children as young as four, has been declared a dangerous offender but instead of indeterminate jail time was given a determinate sentence.

Lawrence Fred Adam, age 57, was given an extra 94 days in jail after spending over 1,500 days in remand before his conviction.

While dangerous offenders are often given indeterminate sentences, the provincial court judge who sentenced him recently noted Adam was not convicted of any new sexual assaults for some time until 2021.

“I am hopeful that by the imposition of another long-term supervision order, carefully supervised as it was prior to the COVID pandemic, that Mr. Adam would again do better and make progress. Simply stated, I conclude that for a period of time, Mr. Adam was being successfully managed and supervised within the community and the public was not at risk during that time,” wrote Judge Kovatch in a recently-released decision.

It was during COVID that Adam regressed to old behaviour as his supervisor could not do many in person visits and, when she did, they were often outside in the yard and not in the home he occupied in Regina.

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Adam has multiple historical offences in Fond du Lac and in Prince Albert, for which he spent six years in jail in one stint, followed by an eight-year supervision order.

That judge designated him a long-term offender and noted he was a diagnosed pedophile.

The fact that Adam could manage to not drink and not assault children for a long period of time if supervised is one reason Kovatch cited for allowing a shorter time in jail after he was charged again in 2021.

Adam was sentenced in Regina and that is where he was living when under the previous long term supervision order was in place.

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susan.mcneil@pattisonmedia.com