Father of boy abducted in 2011 wasn’t told about Hopley’s escape from halfway house
VANCOUVER — The father of a boy abducted in 2011 by Randall Hopley, a high-risk sex offender now wanted on a Canada-wide warrant, said he’s incredulous that Hopley could walk away from a Vancouver halfway house.
Paul Hebert, now living in Alberta, said in a written statement that police did not notify him or his family that Hopley, 58, went missing on Saturday after removing his electronic monitoring bracelet.
Hebert said while he doesn’t have “all the answers,” he believed the “justice system isn’t working” if it allowed Hopley to be placed in a situation where walking away was possible.
Hopley completed a six-year prison term for the abduction of Hebert’s three-year-old son from the family’s home in Sparwood in southeastern B.C., and was released with conditions under a long-term supervision order. He was arrested in January for allegedly breaching those conditions by getting too close to children, but was released on bail.