Karl Toft

Karl Toft is a convicted sex offender and pedophile who committed an estimated 200 sexual assaults while working as a guard at the Kingsclear Youth Training Centre in Kingsclear, New Brunswick. He is regarded as one of Canada’s worst sex offenders. Toft was convicted of 34 sex-related charges and sentenced in December 1992 to 13 years in prison. In 1994, Toft appealed the sentence but lost. He served 11 years of his sentence and is now free. He was represented by Daniel Watters, who maintained that two-thirds of the allegations were untrue.

Toft was fired from the Boy Scouts of Canada in 1972 after a picture surfaced of a nude scout member taken in Toft’s camper. Information also surfaced that Toft and Scout Master George Mountain played a game of "strip tag" in which participants would lose articles of clothing if they were caught.

Toft was the caregiver of a foster child from 1981 to 1984, after which time Toft asked to have the child removed. Toft was convicted in 1991, along with 33 other counts, of the ongoing sexual and, later, physical abuse that occurred during that period.

At the New Brunswick Training School, Toft is reported to have forced inmates to give him oral sex, performed oral sex on inmates, fondled and anally penetrated inmates, drugged inmates in order to have sex with them, violently attacked inmates causing injuries to genitals, and stood by as inmates were sexually assaulted by other inmates. Many of the assaults apparently occurred while inmates were signed out on day passes for field trips initiated and/or supervised by Toft.

As far back as 1971, Toft was the subject of troubling reports from staff at the New Brunswick Training School.

In 1975, then-superintendent William Keys informed John B. M. Baxter, a cabinet minister, and Robert King, a correctional services official, that he suspected sexual abuse involving Toft. He testified that he was told he needed proof. He again complained in 1985 when Toft’s dismissal from the Scouts for sexual abuse was discovered. He was told by his superior, William Connor, that more proof was needed.

In 1985, Toft was moved from the Kingsclear Facility’s training school to the Central Reformatory after Fredericton City Police approached the superintendent about reports of sexual abuse. No internal investigation was conducted, but the move was in response to another guard, David Forbes, having witnessed Toft inappropriately touching an inmate. Forbes reported that he took the matter to Cpl. Lillian Ulsh (now Insp. Lillian Ripley) at the Child Protection Branch of the Fredericton Police Department. Although Ulsh recognized that the RCMP had jurisdiction over the matter, she failed to notify the RCMP. Forbes was transferred out of the province but continued to seek an investigation. In January 1991, Toft was again transferred, this time to the Commercial Vehicle Enforcement Branch, possibly in response to more inquiries about allegations of sexual abuse. However, the transfer letter to Toft includes the statement "your acceptance of this re-assignment is by mutual agreement and is not considered disciplinary in nature."

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