Judge restrains pedophile nicknamed Slushie
man
By Sue Yanagisawa
Local News - Wednesday, June 01, 2005 @ 07:00
A serial child molester dubbed the “Slushie man” in a Kingston neighbourhood
was ordered by a judge to stop giving treats to young children.
Kelvin John Fischer, 43, who has a 16-year record of luring and molesting
children, particularly prepubescent boys, pleaded guilty in a Kingston courtroom
to violating court orders designed to keep children from his clutches.
He was released from a Kingston prison in February after completing an
eight-year sentence for molesting three boys in Kitchener. He moved into a
Butler Street home in the Rideau Heights neighbourhood of the city.
Justice Geoff Griffin was told that Fischer began buying candy and ice cream for
children and was seen taking young boys fishing and swimming, contrary to orders
that prohibited him from being around children unless in the company of another
adult.
Since 1991, Fischer has been under a lifetime court order that prohibits him
from loitering around parks, public swimming areas, schools, daycares and other
places where young children congregate.
Griffin sentenced him to 30 days in jail and added three more years of probation
and imposed an order forbidding him to give presents to children under the age
of 16.
“You’re not going to be Slushie man. You’re not going to be barbecue chip
man. You’re not to give anything to any kid under 16,” Griffin said.
“It’s obvious to me, sir, you like being around kids this age and that’s
something you can’t do.
Griffin also ordered him to report weekly to Kingston Police, observe a 10
p.m.-to-6 a.m. curfew and abstain from drugs and alcohol.
Fischer must not “approach, communicate with, be in the company of, or engage
in any activity with anyone under 16”, unless in the presence of a responsible
adult approved by Det. Gerry Doherty of Kingston Police.
Fischer was made to enter into a peace bond in Kingston last February after his
release from Joyceville Institution.
His last convictions included three sexual assaults, three counts of sexual
interference, invitation to sexual touching and three counts of anal
intercourse. His victims were boys aged eight and nine.
The peace bond he entered into in front of Justice Rommel Masse last year also
forbid him being in the company of anyone under 14, except in the presence of a
responsible adult.
It restricted him from seeking jobs or volunteer positions that would place him
in contact with children.
After his court appearance, Fischer moved into Rideau Heights.
His lawyer, Mike Woogh, told Griffin that within weeks of release he secured
work as a machinist.
Assistant Crown attorney Gerard Laarhuis said Kingston Police learned he’d
also lost no time in cultivating relationships with neighbourhood children.
By mid-summer, Laarhuis said some of the parents were suspicious of the interest
he was taking in young neighbourhood boys.
He said law enforcement officials learned from one mother that the children were
calling him “Slushie man, because he buys all the kids in the neighbourhood
Slushies.”
They discovered that he’d been taking groups of young boys fishing and
swimming at Dog Lake near Battersea and was driving them around in his truck.
He was observed hanging around the neighbourhood convenience store, buying candy
for local kids and sitting in a neighbourhood park. On one occasion, an adult
saw Fischer accompany an 11-year-old boy into a public washroom.
She later questioned the boy to make sure he was all right.
By the time they arrested him on Sept. 25, police had learned of 15 different
children Fischer was hanging around, most of them between nine and 13 years old.
Laarhuis told the judge that none of the children have accused him of any
inappropriate touching, but “it’s certainly in keeping with his pattern of
[sexual] grooming.”
“If Mr. Fischer had taken that next step, we’d be here on a dangerous
offender application,” he assured Griffin.
Fischer has been warned twice in the past that he could be headed for an
indefinite stint in prison as a dangerous offender.
Laarhuis told the court that Fischer’s record goes back to 1982.
In 1989, he received a 14-month jail sentence after luring two young boys into
his truck and fondling them.
A year later he was convicted on two counts of sexual interference, sentenced to
two-years-less-one-day in jail and warned that if there was a recurrence he
could find himself classed as a dangerous offender.
Laarhuis told the court that Fischer works at gaining the trust of his
victim’s families and as recently as 2000 he told a prison psychologist that
“he considered sex to be a legitimate way for an adult to show love to
children.”
In 1996, two of his victims were the eight- and-nine-year-old sons of a couple
who’d befriended him after his release from an earlier jail sentence.
The judge who sent him to prison for eight years was told Fischer had sexually
abused the brothers from 1992 until his arrest in January, 1995.
He did it in their own home, while babysitting them – in violation of his
probation order, which forbid him from being alone with anyone under 16 without
another adult present.
While in prison, Fischer attended treatment programs for about two years before
dropping out.
The National Parole Board, considering him a risk, ordered him kept behind bars
until he’d served every day of his sentence.
“How do we make sure that our children are safe from you, safe from your
desires?” Griffin asked Fischer. “Is there any way I can do that?”