Last Sunday, the Dallas Cowboys lost to Baltimore in Rio. The game was settled by a field goal with one second on the clock.
Next Sunday, a presidential vote in Brazil may come down to the last second, too. It will be close and controversial, as we are hearing from the Guardian:
Sunday’s election in Brazil could hardly be a clearer-cut choice — nor a closer call. President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, known as Lula, is neck and neck in the polls with Flávio Bolsonaro, the son and champion of the jailed far-right former president Jair. Mr Bolsonaro senior is serving a 27-year sentence for plotting a coup to “annihilate” democracy after losing the last election.
Brazil is Latin America’s largest democracy, but military dictatorship is in its recent past. Mr Bolsonaro wants to free his father and those who rioted in his support in 2023. The senator has campaigned as a less crass and temperamental version of his father, but he is no less extreme. For many on both sides, this is a vote against a man they detest more than an endorsement of their own candidate. Most voters disapprove of both men.
Who will win? I don’t know. My hope is that Mr. Bolsonaro wins, but our southern neighbor is polarized as never before. In many ways, their politics is like ours, with families arguing about the candidates and young women making dating selections based on where you stand on the election. As a Brazilian said on a recent TV interview, we argue about politics these days like we used to fight over “futbol.”
Beyond Brazilian politics, a Bolsonaro victory would confirm the Latin American movement toward center-right leaders. In other words, a Bolsonaro presidency would align much closer to Trump-Rubio policies in fighting cartels and promoting free-market economies. It won’t end the infighting in Brazil, but the White House is cheering for Bolsonaro rather than Lula.
So get ready for an exciting finish down in the land of “futbol” and pretty ladies walking on the beach.
The waters of Ceuta’s El Trampolín beach present unsafe levels of fecal contamination, posing a serious sanitary risk for the embattled and invaded city, local outlets warned on Friday morning.
The Spanish exclave has now marked two months since tens of thousands of migrants invaded its territory. Since then, a large amount of the remaining invading migrants settled in the Trampolín beach, turning the once pristine shores into a makeshift shanty town full of tents, dumping trash all over the coastline, and “relieving” and bathing themselves in the beach’s waters.
Several Ceuta-based outlets informed on Friday that they obtained a copy of a new report from the city’s local health authorities warning of the presence of “highly elevated” amounts of fecal bacteria in the invaded beach’s waters.
El Faro de Ceutadetailed that report’s findings are based on three rounds of microbiological analyses of the Trampolín’s waters conducted between September 23-28.
All of the tests found dangerous concentrations of Intestinal Enterococci and Escherichia Coli far beyond the safety level thresholds outlined in Spain’s existing water quality regulation guidelines. Per El Faro, the Ceuta Health Council stressed that although Trampolín is not a formal bathing zone, frequent or prolonged exposure to its waters in its current state represents a potential sanitary risk linked to direct contact with contaminated water.
Unnamed Ceuta government sources affirmed to El Faro and other local outlets that the report and its findings have already been forwarded to the Spanish central government’s Health and Migration Ministries.
El Periodico de Ceuta, a local newspaper, pointed out that the deterioration of the beach’s waters drastically occurred in a manner of “weeks.” The newspaper noted that prior testing conducted in August showed that the waters remained in “good” quality despite the beach having been occupied by the invading migrants — but, by early September, the quality classification was downgraded to “enough,” leading to the much worse and concerning contamination levels documented across the late September tests.
Ceuta’s health authorities reportedly called for urgent and immediate measures to stop the sanitary risks posed by the contamination of the beach’s waters — which can affect the city’s residents and invading migrants alike.
The systematic deterioration of the beach has become one of the most glaring consequences of the ongoing migrant invasion of Ceuta in the past eight weeks, as repeated efforts to clear the migrant camp and clean the area has so far been unsuccessful. The remaining invading migrants have turned Trampolín and its surrounding areas into what is now being locally described as the zone with the “highest level of criminal activity in all of Ceuta.”
An animal-rescue group has refused to let a Lower Saxony AfD deputy adopt a setter from Italy, telling her the decision was based on her party membership.
Vanessa Behrendt, family-policy spokeswoman for the AfD group in the state parliament, contacted Fortuna Animali about a dog the association is offering for rehoming.
In a WhatsApp exchange seen by Apollo News, she wrote that she and her family were very interested in “the pretty setter bitch Seta”, meaning Setia, and asked for a call if the dog had not already found a home.
The reply came about 15 minutes later. “You are certainly aware that we do foreign animal protection. Because of your political affiliation we are declining to place a foreign dog with you,” the contact wrote.
Behrendt replied that she knew the association worked abroad, that this would not have been the first dog she had taken from outside Germany, and that she had herself worked in animal protection for many years.
“Animal protection, like child protection, should have no political colour, since it should always and exclusively be about the matter itself,” she wrote.
She called the decision “very regrettable” and asked whether the point was really to give the animal a loving home. Her husband, she added, is Italian.
She later posted the exchange on X.
“So one would rather let a fully grown dog languish in an Italian shelter than place it with an AfD politician, with whom it would have had a loving home together with other animals,” she wrote.
It was “sad when political conviction becomes more important than actual animal protection”.
“You’d rather let a dog rot in a foreign animal shelter than give it a loving home, just because the political stance doesn’t fit.”
She then asked supporters not to attack or boycott the association, saying the animals would suffer and that she assumed the volunteers generally wanted the best for them.
Da lässt man einen ausgewachsenen Hund lieber in einem italienischen Tierheim versauern, anstatt ihn an eine AfD-Politikerin zu vermitteln, bei der er gemeinsam mit anderen Tieren ein liebevolles Zuhause gehabt hätte. Traurig, wenn politische Gesinnung wichtiger wird als… pic.twitter.com/Uv137Lvjf5
Behrendt has sat for the AfD in the Lower Saxony Landtag since 2022.
Before entering parliament she worked as a self-employed dog therapist.
Apollo News asked Fortuna Animali why party membership was decisive. No reply had arrived by the time of publication.
Setia is still listed for adoption. The association describes her as a neutered English setter, born in January 2025, found abandoned and now living with other dogs at a refuge in Cori, Italy.
It calls her sunny and attached to people, and says she needs a family able to cope with a setter’s need for exercise.
Fortuna Animali’s published adoption process asks about experience with dogs, housing and how long an animal would be left alone.
Political views and party membership are not listed as criteria.
The association, a registered charity since 2019, says it supports partners in Italy and places dogs found there with families in Germany.
Wenn die eigene Ideologie wichtiger ist als das Wohl der Tiere: Man lässt einen Hund lieber in einem ausländischen Tierheim versauern, als ihm ein liebevolles Zuhause zu schenken, bloß weil die politische Einstellung nicht passt. Der armen Maus wäre das wohl ziemlich egal. Es tut… pic.twitter.com/yNLH707D9f
Two shocking incidents reveal how White women are also being targeted in the French school riots. In one incident, a woman who tried to stop vandalism on the edge of a high school protest was struck in the face by flames from an aerosol can used as a makeshift flamethrower. In another video shared online, a White female school supervisor was surrounded and punched during a blockade in Seynod, as student unrest over school conditions spread across France this week.
The Marseille attack with the homemade flamethrower occurred Thursday afternoon near Place of the 4th of September in the city’s 7th arrondissement, according to police sources. Images authenticated by BFMTV network show a White Frenchwoman attempting to stop students from smashing the bus stop with an iron bar.
An individual dressed entirely in black, with a hood over his head, then “used a spray can with a lighter to turn it into a flamethrower, directed at the head of his victim,” BFMTV reported. The flames hit the woman’s face as the crowd screamed in the video.
She filed a complaint Friday in Marseille, but the extent of any injuries remain unknown.
🇫🇷🔴 A woman had her face burned in the French city of Marseille during student blockades.
A hooded far-left rioter set the spray from an aerosol can on fire and used it on her face like a flamethrower.
A separate video shows a White female supervisor at Baudelaire High School in Seynod, near Annecy, during a blockade. The woman is completely surrounded when a Black male punches her in the face multiple times.
🇫🇷🔴 A White female supervisor at Baudelaire High School is beaten by a mob of multicultural students during a blockade in Seynod.
The woman is completely surrounded when a Black male punches her in the face multiple times.
The incidents come amid days of blockades and clashes at French high schools that serve students roughly ages 15 to 18. While the protests were presumably about poor teaching conditions and poorly maintained schools, they have since expanded into mass rioting, arson attacks, and attempted murder cases, including another incident in Marseille where gasoline was splashed onto a principal and vice principal during an attempted arson outside a high school administrative office.
The Interior Ministry said 1,027 high schools had been affected by demonstrations, with blockades at 222 of them. On Thursday alone, authorities recorded 1,949 arrests and 305 injured police officers, the ministry said.
Education Minister Édouard Geffray said 65 education staff members had been injured, including 40 headteachers, and that there had been “significant damage” to school facilities. Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez said 625 people, mostly young, were detained Wednesday and that 83 officers were hurt that day. Government figures put student and staff injuries over the days of protest at 159, including one student who lost part of the use of a hand after setting off a firework.
🇫🇷🔴 JUST IN: A school principal was struck directly in the face by a firework mortar during ongoing violent student blockades in France.
The incident happened at Blaise Pascal High School in Rouen.
Later, the entire entrance of the school was set on fire.
Other attacks on staff have been reported. In La Ciotat, a principal was doused with gasoline and beaten, and in Belfort a police commander was thrown to the ground and beaten unconscious, which Remix News also reported on. That case is also being treated as an attempted murder investigation.
The Education Ministry said 564 schools had been disrupted since Friday morning. More than 400 high schools were closed preventively that day. Prime Minister’s office officials, after a crisis meeting Thursday, described the movement as “a maneuver organized by France Unbowed and its ultra-left proxies.”
Jean-Luc Mélenchon, the leader of the party, urged young people to use “only methods of nonviolent struggle.” However, intelligence reports cited by French government allege the party is backing the violence covertly.
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When a senior Catholic Archbishop — a former Apostolic Nuncio to the United States — openly accuses global elites of infiltrating Western governments to impose Agenda 2030… the world should stop and listen.
Viganò warns:
“A dangerous subversive elite has infiltrated the highest levels of Western institutions to implement a criminal global plan.”
He says those who expose this “global coup” are silenced through:
And he names a political prisoner the mainstream refuses to talk about:
Rainer Füllmich — imprisoned for the crime of telling the truth.
Then Viganò goes further than almost any church figure in our lifetime:
“It is not Füllmich who belongs in prison, but those who committed the greatest crime ever against humanity.”
And he names them:
Fauci Gates Schwab Soros von der Leyen Bourla …and their accomplices in public office.
This is unprecedented.
A senior Archbishop accusing the globalist power structure of crimes against humanity — and calling the emerging system what it is:
A totalitarian regime spreading across Europe, Canada, Australia and every nation controlled by the UN, NATO, WHO and WEF.
His call to the world is clear:
“Raise your voice. Defend the persecuted. Free Rainer Füllmich.”
History is accelerating.
The Church is speaking.
Whistleblowers are being jailed.
And the globalists are losing their grip.
The truth is breaking through.
🚨 ARCHBISHOP VIGANÒ JUST DROPPED A NUCLEAR TRUTH BOMB
When a senior Catholic Archbishop — a former Apostolic Nuncio to the United States — openly accuses global elites of infiltrating Western governments to impose Agenda 2030… the world should stop and listen.
After a brief recess and a hearing lasting about two hours, the judge of the Kecskemét District Court ruled on Thursday afternoon to remand Balázs Hankó into custody. The former Minister of Culture and Innovation is a suspect in the National Cultural Fund (NKA) case.
Under heavy guard, Balázs Hankó arrived at the Kecskemét District Court building around 10 a.m. from the detention center in Cegléd. Shortly thereafter, the preliminary hearing began, during which the judge decided which coercive measures should be ordered in the case of the former minister suspected in the NKA case.
After the hearing, the press spokesperson for the Chief Prosecutor’s Office announced that
the court had ordered Balázs Hankó to be detained for 30 days.
He had filed an appeal, which the court had taken note of. Criminal proceedings allow for the detention to be served at a police station, which in this case is taking place at the Cegléd police station. If necessary, the prosecutor’s office may file a motion to extend the detention by 30 days. Should the 60 days have elapsed and the detention need to be extended again, the former minister will be transferred to a correctional facility.
Péter Magyar responded to the news of the arrest on his Facebook page within minutes. In his post, the prime minister writes: “Another minister in Viktor Orbán’s government, Member of Parliament Balázs Hankó, has also been remanded in custody by the court. The allegation: embezzlement amounting to 17 billion HUF (46.11 million EUR), committed as part of a criminal organization.” “This stolen money was used to partially finance FIDESZ’s election campaign,” Magyar claimed,
thereby preempting the court’s decision even before the trial on the merits has even begun.
In an exclusive interview with Hír TV, Hankó stated that a politically motivated case is being brought against him, one that has two “main focal points.” He described one as a cultural-political struggle and the other as a cultural-political reckoning.
In connection with the proceedings, the FIDESZ politician also mentioned the “Polish model” and Donald Tusk, and questioned the detention of those involved in the case. Regarding the risk of a repeat offense, he said that those involved no longer held their former positions, and in response to the possibility of flight, he cited his own example. “I have made it clear that I am here and available,” he explained. The former minister also pointed out in the interview that
his colleagues had been threatened and that there were attempts to send him to prison.
The investigating judge of the Kecskemét District Court has ordered the arrest of another person suspected in the NKA case, the press spokesperson for the Bács-Kiskun County Chief Prosecutor’s Office announced on Thursday. According to press reports, the person in question is Veronika Varga-Bajusz, the former state secretary at the Ministry of Culture and Innovation, who was responsible for higher education, vocational training, and adult education, as well as youth affairs. An MTI correspondent saw her at the Kecskemét District Court as she was led away in handcuffs on a lead.
The handling of politically sensitive cases outside the capital, in Kecskemét, has raised questions about the choice of venue. While proceedings in Budapest might attract greater media attention, the reasons for assigning these cases to courts elsewhere have not been publicly established.
Professor Hubert Windisch, a German priest and retired professor of theology at the University of Freiburg, has written a piercing assessment of the situation of the Catholic Church that is at the same time encouraging. He sees the growing loss of substance, clarity, and leadership, not only on the level of the Catholic Church in Germany, but also in Rome.
“Everything is now called a (pastoral) process,” he writes. “Truth is synodal, the journey is the destination. But if the journey is the destination, the journey no longer has a destination. That is the inconsistency of relativism.”
Windisch, even though he argues that the Church is “from a socio-religious perspective … beyond saving,” insists that the Church will survive, and that there will always be pockets of faithful who will continue to hold on to the faith and flock around the few remaining priests, even in the catacombs.
Windisch was a strong defender of the Catholic faith under Pope Francis’ pontificate by signingseveral of the statements issued by clergymen and theologians in opposition to the pope’s novel teachings. He also once published an essay on LifeSite where he discussed the problematic effects that the Second Vatican Council had on the Catholic Church.
Please see here Professor Windisch’s full text:
Beyond Saving: On the Loss of Substance within the Church
Hubert Windisch
Inconsistency exists when something is inherently no longer right, i.e., when the outside and the inside no longer match, when words and actions diverge, and when claims and reality contradict one another. This can be the case with individual persons, groups or political parties, major organizations such as the churches, or it can affect an entire commonwealth—that is, a state.
Let us look, for example, at the designation “RC” [Roman Catholic] of the Church. This designation claims an identity that is often no longer present in reality. This is illustrated by just three examples:
1) In the Diocese of Hamburg, parents are up in arms because their children are now expected to consume non-Christian material (LGBT, etc.) in sex education classes at Catholic schools. They turn to Rome. Rome admonishes the diocesan school authority in a response dated July 6, 2026, to the critical parent network, pointing to Catholic doctrine and the Christian image of man as found in the 2019 guidelines “Male and Female He Created Them.” The new sex education curriculum is mandated anyway. Rome remains silent. Contempt for parents, abuse of children!
2) In the Diocese of Mainz, the bishop notes the new letter from the Roman Dicastery for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments dated June 17, 2026, banning lay preaching during the celebration of the Eucharist, and even considers it correct, but chooses not to intervene against the now widespread practice of lay preaching. Misplaced tolerance as a pastoral method.
3) The cardinal of Munich issues a guide for the liturgical blessing of irregular, and thus also homosexual, relationships, even though not even the sophisticated Roman document Fiducia Supplicans permits this in this explicit manner. Rome remains silent and tolerates it. Anything goes.
The loss of substance within the Church due to inconsistency is enormous. We can watch the erosion of the “institution of grace” (Michael Ebertz) in fast motion. “RC” is rapidly becoming “DC,” i.e., differently Catholic, as the former chairman of the German Bishops’ Conference, Georg Bätzing, once boasted with regard to the Synodal Path. However, this very quickly turns into an “NC,” a no-longer-Catholic. This development hurts all the men who want to be or become priests in an honestly Catholic way; the faithful who want to experience a dignified celebration of the Eucharist with an authentic sermon on Sunday and who try to shape their daily lives through prayer and the sacramental life. For all of them, the Church is often no longer a home, but an externally still-functioning hollow space in which they freeze and starve spiritually.
The background and driving force for this loss of substance is, to put it metaphorically, a Church that has been moved from solid rock onto quicksand, primarily due to the so-called Bergoglian magisterium with its decisions prone to heresy and indeed apostasy (e.g., Abu Dhabi, Pachamama, Singapore, Amoris laetitia, Fiducia supplicans, among others, cf. Gavin Ashenden, The Quicksand Under the Cathedral). Everything is now called a (pastoral) process; truth is synodal, the journey is the destination. But if the journey is the destination, the journey no longer has a destination. That is the inconsistency of relativism. In reality, the so-called Synodal Path in the Church of Germany is nothing other than an attempt to institutionalize this inconsistency. And Rome is rushing to keep up on a global church scale!
From a socio-religious perspective, a Church presenting herself in this manner is beyond saving. This is because the internal events described will create a substantial negative pressure inside the structure of the Church. At a certain point it will rupture the outer shell, and the system will implode. The Church herself, however, will not perish. In oases and on islands of contemporary history, and increasingly in catacombs, a (holy!) remnant of the faithful will gather, celebrating worship reverently with a few priests—whether in the Vetus or the Novus Ordo—having the Word and Sacrament as nourishment for their lives, and hearing anew the word of the Crucified and Risen One: “Be sure of this: I am with you always, even to the end of the world” (Mt 28:20).
Passenger airline crashes are unusual, intentional ones are rare and intentional pilot crashes are virtually unheard of. Passenger planes are generally flown by highly trained airline pilots, many of them are veterans of their respective air forces, and they remain calm in a crisis.
That’s why there hasn’t been a single case of an American airline pilot deliberately crashing a plane and only one case of an airline pilot taking down a western plane with all onboard and that took place in 2015 when a suicidal first officer crashed Lufthansa’s Germanwings Flight 9525.
The only other case involving a western pilot, but not a western airline, was the crash of Mozambique Airlines Flight TM470 in Africa by a Portuguese pilot. Every other case has involved non-western pilots with two Asian pilots and four Muslim pilots deliberately crashing or trying to crash planes: including the first known deliberate crash of a passenger plane by an airline pilot that took place in 1994 when Captain Younes Khayati deliberately disabled the autopilot on Royal Air Maroc Flight 630 and crashed the plane into a mountain.
The list of Muslim suicide pilots also includes EgyptAir Flight 990 in 1999 where the first officer kept shouting “Allahu Akbar” while downing the plane as well as Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, the subject of endless fantastic conspiracy theories ranging from UFOs to black holes, but that was actually likely the work of Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah.
After the FlyDubai incident in which an Omani Muslim pilot stabbed an Indian pilot in a reported attempt to hijack Flight FZ1073 bound for Israel and possibly crash the plane, the list of Muslim pilots who tried to bring down airplanes is up to 4.
And that means that 44% of pilots who deliberately crashed tried to crash planes were Muslim.
These statistics are all the more startling since Muslim pilots and airlines make up a very limited percentage of the airline travel sector. The Asian and North American market together account for 66% of flights, Europe adds another 23%, Africa comes in at only around 3% and the Middle East only accounts for 5%. Despite that, the Middle East and Africa account for a disproportionate number of deliberate pilot crashes when they represent a tiny minority of flights.
The troubling statistic that nearly half of pilots attempting to crash their own planes were Muslim does not take into account Muslim hijackings, including the Islamic terror attacks of September 11, or any other hijacking attempts, but is limited only to pilots crashing passenger airline planes.
If we were to count hijackings, 9/11 alone would ensure a much worse track record for Muslims flying planes since these were by far the deadliest cases of pilots, however illegal and illegitimate, weaponizing jet airplanes to cause as much damage and loss of life as possible.
The latest incident raises serious questions about the risk entailed by both Muslim pilots and Muslim airlines operating in the United States of America and other known terror targets.
The EgyptAir Flight 990 crash off Nantucket led to claims of Islamophobia when investigators flagged the shouts about Allah on the cockpit recording as concerning even though the crash predated 9/11. The Egyptians initially refused to cede control of the investigation and experts were dispatched to explain Muslim theology to Americans. We were firmly told that when First Officer Gameel Al-Batouti took the opportunity to seize control of the plane while the captain was in the bathroom and sent the plane diving while shouting about “Allah”, this was normal.
It turned out that Al-Batouti had deliberately crashed the plane. The Egyptians refused to admit it and it took extensive work and an attempt by another Egyptian pilot to defector before we got anywhere close to the truth. Even then there were suspicions that it had been a terrorist act that were never proven, confirmed or even discussed because of the political sensitivity of the crash.
A similar cover-up would likely have ensued had the FlyDubai takeover ended in a crash. But instead the Israeli passengers stormed the cockpit, disabled the attacking pilot and allowed the relief pilots to take control of the aircraft. But it is unlikely that the authorities on the ground, currently the Saudis, will allow the truth about what really happened in the air to come out.
It’s unknown how many of the deliberate Muslim airline crashes were due to pilot terrorism because the Muslim countries involved tended to avoid any discussion of the motives involved.
Some of these crashes by Muslim pilots have been attributed to personal issues, ranging from workplace frustration to a failed love affair, while others, notably EgyptAir Flight 990, were falsely attributed to mechanical failure, but western investigators have rarely had direct access to family members, friends and local officials making it very difficult for them to learn anything.
There have been red flags in some of those crashes that raise the possibility of terrorism.
Is it really a coincidence that intentional pilot crashes began in 1994, two years after the first Al Qaeda attack and a year after the World Trade Center bombing, and further crashes have roughly paralleled an upsurge in Islamic terrorist activity?
The passengers on the Royal Air Maroc Flight 630, apart from a Kuwaiti prince, were mostly Europeans while the passengers on the EgyptAir Flight 990 were a mix of Americans and Egyptians, but notably included 33 Egyptian military officers who would have been seen as targets by the Muslim Brotherhood and its various splinter groups including Al Qaeda.
A plane full of Israelis flying to Israel would be viewed as a golden ticket to Islamic ‘paradise’ for any devout Muslim. Especially when that plane could have also crashed into an Israeli building or facility on the way down. The death toll from such an attack could have been extremely severe and also tempting enough to explain what happened on Flight FZ1073.
The troubling statistic that nearly half of deliberate pilot crashes were carried out by Muslim pilots should make us think about where we fly, who we fly with and whom we allow to fly into America.
A Canadian trans-identified male sex offender who was twice convicted on charges related to child sex abuse material, one of which involved accessing pornography of infants in diapers, is once again in custody after violating conditions of his parole. Laverne Travis Waskahat has repeatedly been released by the Parole Board of Canada, which has considered his “Indigenous status” as a mitigating factor in his repeat offending.
Waskahat, who claims to be transgender and also uses the name ‘Lauren,’ has an extensive history of possessing, making and publishing child pornography involving male and female infants under three years old. Waskahat had also previously committed sexual offenses against children in his care and was known to take voyeuristic photos of infants in public, primarily in bathrooms at malls and grocery stores around Edmonton, Alberta.
Waskahat has been ordered by the court to register as a sex offender for life. But since 2013, he has been released and re-arrested a staggering seven times after being found in violation of the terms of his Long Term Supervision Order (LTSO), according to new information from a recent Parole Board decision.
Waskahat was first convicted of possessing and distributing child pornography in 2011, for which he received a five-year prison sentence. Authorities discovered images of Waskahat performing sexual acts on an infant. Over the next fifteen years, he would become known to Edmonton Police for sexually abusing children while in a position of care, including babysitting, and taking voyeuristic photographs of infants in public.
Canada’s federal correctional system permits statutory release after an offender has served the legislated portion of a federal sentence, subject to supervision and conditions. In December 2013, Corrections Services Canada (CSC) released him into the community under supervision. Within less than a week, he was arrested again after he was found to have been stockpiling baby diapers.
While it is unclear when the Parole Board approved his release, his parole was suspended the following year, in August 2014, after he incurred new criminal charges relating to the production and possession of child pornography.
Waskahat was set free again in August 2019. At the time Edmonton police warned the public about Waskahat. They said he was a threat to commit “significant harm to the community and will commit another sexual offence against a child under the age of 16.” On October 17 of that year, he was spotted by Edmonton police officers using a cellphone in violation of his release conditions. He was arrested, and his devices were seized. Forensic investigations uncovered child pornography images, and Canadian media reported that an “Alberta woman” had plead guilty to three charges related to child pornography, just weeks after Edmonton police warned he would likely re-offend.
In addition to child pornography, investigators noted that there were also a number of photos of diapers and diaper fetish search terms in the laptop’s search history. Other search terms included things like “abuse baby,” “abuse newborn” and “newborn hit.”
CANADA: A transgender pedophile who was re-arrested within days of completing a sentence for hoarding infant abuse material is being released once again into a community facility.
Laverne Waskahat had accumulated hundreds of photos of babies being raped.https://t.co/GXlo90pUVy
In April 2021, Waskahat was arrested after he was discovered to be accessing child pornography online. An investigation revealed 631 images of a variety of sexual assaults on young children, and “written narratives depicting child sexual abuse were also found,” according to court records. Waskahat was additionally accessing messaging apps targeted at children.
On December 11, 2023, Waskahat was released to the community despite Edmonton Police Service being aware of his risk to the public. Just prior to freeing the sexual predator, they issued public statements advising the community to beware of Waskahat. They stated that there were “reasonable grounds to believe [he] is of significant harm to the community” and is at risk of committing a sexual offense against a child under the age of 16.
Just two days later, on December 13, Waskahat was found in possession of child pornography. In a media statement, Edmonton Police revealed they had received a tip that traced Waskahat to a hotel room in the city’s West Side. At the time of his arrest, police found a baby crib, diapers, dozens of alleged pornographic drawings and a laptop in Waskahat’s room.
The following year, in January 2024, CSC released Waskahat into the community while placed on electronic monitoring. By the following week, Waskahat’s parole supervisor was informed that he had been gathering “baby items” at the community-based residential facility where he was placed. A search of his room uncovered “explicit written material depicting child sexual abuse”, and he was again arrested, returned to custody, and charged with breach of LTSO on February 24.
While remanded and awaiting charges, Waskahat’s parole officer was informed by the remand center that the pedophile had been hoarding sexually explicit material in his cell. On May 29, Waskahat was sentenced to an additional year, which amounted to 252 days after credit for time served.
In the Parole Board’s decision, it was noted that “there was a publication ban imposed by the court in relation to one of the current convictions,” indicating that the full extent of Waskahat’s crimes has been hidden from the public.
According to the most recent Psychological Report on file, dated September 27, 2023, Waskahat has demonstrated “deviant sexual interests including diaperism, infantilism, sexual sadism, and pedophilia,” and his likelihood of re-offending was placed in the “well-above” risk category. The assessment concluded that the risk Waskahat poses to the community “would not be manageable in the foreseeable future.”
The psychological assessment noted that Waskahat had consistently produced “creative writing depicting violent, sexual acts towards children,” and that he had “demonstrated predatory intent and a lack of self-control,” which raised “significant concerns regarding the potential for serious harm against a child.”
In November 2024, Waskahat was again released to a community-based residential facility. Within days, he was “quickly found” with photos of babies, cribs, and pregnant women, and was arrested. He was placed in custody after the Parole Board subsequently revoked his release.
Then, after being released at his warrant expiry date on February 5, 2025, he was arrested again on February 19, 2025, just fourteen days later for breaching his long-term supervision order. In a decision made during a September 3, 2026 hearing, the Parole Board says Waskahat was found with a smartphone which “contained a search history relating to infant related sexual assault”.
🚨EXCLUSIVE🚨
Police in Edmonton, Canada, have failed to inform the public that a pedophilic trans-identified male has been released into the community.
Laverne "Lauren" Waskahat was twice convicted of making sexual abuse images of babies.https://t.co/0dACFaz56C
The Parole Board has again ordered Waskahat to detention for the next two years. According to the decision, Waskahat “admitted to watching and manufacturing child pornography continuously” and that his sexual preference involves “the sexualization of infants and diapers”.
The document reveals that at the time of Waskahat’s 2021 conviction, the Judge considered as a mitigating factor his “Indigenous status” and the impact serving a prison sentence would have on him.
“You are Indigenous and identify as female,” reads the September 3 Parole Board decision. “You are a treaty member of your First Nation community where you were raised by foster parents after spending your first four months in hospital due to being underdeveloped at birth and abuse. Your biological parents were involved in substance abuse, and you have been diagnosed with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) due to same which has impacted your cognitive functioning and general functioning in the community.”
The Parole Board went on to detail his prolonged use of alcohol and marijuana, which led to a psychotic episode requiring hospitalization at around the age of 30. It further reveals that Waskahat has “had relationships with both men and women” and reports having five children with whom he no longer has contact.
“The Board has considered the file information, your submissions at the hearing as well as your social history as an offender of Indigenous heritage. The Board acknowledges the overrepresentation of Indigenous people within the criminal justice system and that this disproportionate representation is connected to marginalization and systemic racism,” reads the decision.
According to the decision summary, Waskahat claimed to have sexually abused children due to feeling oppressed about his “gender identity”, and that having access to child pornography prevents him from committing homicide.
“At your hearing, you spoke to your upbringing and how you did not feel loved which you connect to writing your written child sexual abuse stories where you are both the child and the adult abusing the child. You connect this to your upbringing but were not clear as to this connection. You also spoke to it being difficult to be transgender in the world and how people laugh at you. You report that this leads to feelings of violence on your part which you grapple with and use child sexual abuse related materials to make you feel better so that you don’t have to kill anyone.”
The Parole Board decision describes how Waskahat has, again, been repeatedly found with written child sexual abuse materials, assaulted a CSC officer, and been found in possession of magazine cut outs of infants and child-related items.
In May 2026, Waskahat completed the Indigenous Sex Offender High Intensity Program, but correctional officials characterized his participation as “largely superficial”. Program facilitators said his “responsivity needs” may have limited his ability to benefit from the treatment. Throughout the program, officials said Waskahat expressed views that justified his offending, denied that his actions caused harm, and placed responsibility on others. Facilitators concluded that he continued to hold beliefs that supported and normalized his offending, demonstrated limited empathy for victims, and externalized blame. The Parole Board said the programming appeared to have had limited impact on his risk.
The Parole Board said Waskahat had repeatedly characterized the material he produced as “victimless” and harmless, despite participating in correctional programming and other interventions. According to the Board, he continued to externalize blame and demonstrated little empathy for victims. The Board said his repeated return to offenses involving child sexual abuse indicated that he had made little progress in understanding the harm caused by his actions. It also noted that Waskahat appeared to believe his written depictions of child sexual abuse did not harm others. During his hearing, he said he intended to continue writing such material daily, despite knowing it was illegal.
