A serial rapist Halifax police warned the public about in December 2022 is getting out of prison on statutory release, but the Parole Board of Canada insists he must stay at a halfway house or psychiatric facility.
Samuel Clements Green is serving more than nine and a half years for committing five separate sexual assaults targeting women as they walked alone at night in an Indigenous community between August and December of 2014, as well as a string of break and enters. The 29-year-old is getting out of prison under the law that requires federal offenders who have served two-thirds of a fixed-length sentence be released to serve the remainder of their sentence in the community, under supervision.
“The board notes that the most recent psychological assessment indicates that your risk for sexual recidivism is moderate to high,” said his recent parole decision.
“The board does not view any alternatives to residency as being sufficient to manage your risk for sexual recidivism.”
The parole board doesn’t identify the location of the halfway house that has agreed to take Green for the remainder of his sentence.
“Statutory release is a release by law and is not a decision made by the Parole Board of Canada,” Dominique Surette, who speaks for the board, said in an email. “Offenders on statutory release are required to follow standard conditions set out in the law. Offenders must report to their Correctional Service Canada parole officer on a regular basis and can be returned to prison if they are believed to present an undue risk to the public.”
The crimes Green is doing time for started in July 2014, “when police were notified that a victim of sexual assault was at a clinic to be checked,” said Green’s Dec. 19 parole decision.
“The victim reported that you attacked her and punched her in the head several times when she was leaving a bar. She remembers being on the ground with an unknown male on top of her. You covered her mouth and did not allow her to scream or get away, as you sexually assaulted her. You committed five separate sexual assault acts in a span of seven months against targeted victims as they walked alone at night in an Indigenous community.”
The judge who sentenced Green also imposed a long-term supervision order on him that ends in February 2034.
While Green’s parole decision doesn’t note where his crimes took place, Halifax Regional Police issued a warning in December 2022 that the high-risk offender was living in Nova Scotia’s capital.
Green got out of prison that time on statutory release as well and was living in what’s dubbed a community correctional centre. But the parole board revoked that soon after he was discovered on Dec. 24, 2022, hiding pictures of women’s heads that appeared to have been cut out of a magazine. He initially denied having such photos, but was sent back to prison a week later after staffers searched his room and discovered a variety of cutout pictures of young women from television shows, and explicit images of men and women engaging in sexual activity.
“Your community supervision history is poor as you were released on (statutory release) during this sentence and failed to meet expectations as you were considered to be returning to your offence cycle,” said his recent parole decision.
“Given your behaviour while on (statutory release) where you were entering your offence cycle by having pictures of women and men engaging in sexual activity and cut out head shots of women, the board believes that you have not made observable and measurable change.”
This time around, the parole board considered Green’s crimes, as well as his “community supervision history as aggravating” to his risk of reoffending.
Green found sexually assaulting women “addicting,” said the parole board, which noted his drug and alcohol consumption were associated with his crimes.
“You report that you use substances daily to manage your emotions.”
During his time in prison, Green has “successfully participated in education courses with excellent scores,” said the parole board.
Green, who is Inuit, has also completed programs aimed at reforming Indigenous sexual offenders.
“Most recently, you successfully completed the Inuit Integrated High Intensity Program in March 2021,” said his parole decision.
When he finished it, the facilitator noted Green needs to manage his “thinking that justifies and supports sexual offending,” said the decision.
Green’s supposed to stay away from alcohol and drugs and does not have leave privileges from the halfway house where he’ll live.
He “grew up as a third-generation survivor of Inuit dispossession,” said the parole board.
“You have been affected by intergenerational trauma and your Inuit descendants were impacted by unemployment, substance abuse, mental health issues and societal issues. You had a dysfunctional upbringing filled with substance abuse, neglect, violence, and poverty.”
One of Green’s parents abused alcohol, and there was violence in the home as a result, said the parole board.
One of his parents “also has a history of incarceration. You report that you started abusing substances at a young age to cope with negative emotions.”
Green’s case management team hopes he will “engage and participate in healing ceremonies to aid” in his reintegration, said the parole board.
Green has “displayed a propensity for sexual violence as illustrated by the multiple sexual assaults” he committed.
“The board believes that you have difficulties in controlling your sexual urges and require additional monitoring and supervision in the community.”
His “social history, including the effect of the dispossession and dislocation of Inuit people,” as well as his family history “have influenced (Green’s) perception of pro-societal values and may have led to the normalization of behaviours which are, in fact, distorted and counterproductive to maintaining a healthy and pro-social lifestyle.”
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