CRIME WATCH

Repeat sex offender was facing deportation

Montreal woman, 84, attacked in home

• National Post
• 25 Mar 2026
• Paul Cherry

[This is another story of the laziness or incompetence of Canada’s immigration system. Van Giao Do is a repeat sexual offender. As far back as 2011,Do, who is not a Canadian citizen, was ordered deported. Somehow, the authorities never got around to putting him on a plane. So, he offended  again attacking and raping an 84-year-old Montreal woman for which he was recently sentenced to eight years in prison. Maddeningly, the government hid even his country of origin  from public view: ”  

“The name of Do’s country of origin was redacted from the parole board summary obtained by The Gazette newspaper, but it says that: “It is noted in your file that when you were two years old, your family ended up in a refugee camp after fleeing a war. Two years later, they settled in Canada.” As a linguist, there’s no mystery: it’s Vietnam. — Paul Fromm]”

MONTREAL • A man sentenced last week to an eight year prison term for sexually assaulting an 84-year-old woman in her Montreal home had been ordered to be deported from Canada years before he attacked the elderly woman in December.

Quebec Court Judge Thierry Nadon, who sentenced Van Giau Do, described what happened to the woman as “a veritable scene from a horror movie.”

Do, 44, has a criminal record that includes at least two previous convictions for sexual assault.

According to a Parole Board of Canada decision on Jan. 4, 2022, while he was serving a prison sentence for sexual assault, Do was a permanent resident of Canada who was facing deportation: “You are facing deportation proceedings with the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA). On November 8, 2011, a release order was issued against you and several conditions were imposed (while the removal order was pending).”

The name of Do’s country of origin was redacted from the parole board summary obtained by The Gazette newspaper, but it says that: “It is noted in your file that when you were two years old, your family ended up in a refugee camp after fleeing a war. Two years later, they settled in Canada.”

A spokesperson for the Canada Border Services Agency said Tuesday it would reply to a request for an update on what happened with Do’s removal order “as soon as possible.”

In the case of his most recent assault, Do broke into the elderly woman’s home on the night of Dec. 14.

The woman was home alone watching television. During a commercial break, she headed to her basement to tend to a load of laundry. As she was about to return upstairs, she saw Do standing in her home, nude from the waist down. He was only wearing a winter jacket.

Do threatened to rape the woman and then forced her into her bedroom, where he sexually assaulted her. He then began disconnecting telephone landlines around her home. The woman took advantage of a moment of distraction and fled to a neighbour’s house dressed only in her pyjamas.

FOUND IN YARD

When the Montreal police arrived, officers found Do running through the woman’s backyard and arrested him.

Last week, when Do was sentenced, the judge referred to Do’s criminal record as being among the factors that contributed to his eight-year sentence.

His record includes a 33-month sentence he received in 2019 for sexually assaulting a woman three times.

“The victim was an adult at the time of the offences, but you initiated contact with her when she was (a minor). The acts were described as highly intrusive and sexual in nature,” the author of the 2022 parole decision wrote.

“During the first incident, you ignored her refusal and her cries. Before the second assault, you gave the victim a pill, and she appeared to have no recollection of the events that followed. You used force to coerce the victim into sexual intercourse a third time, without her consent. Following this incident, she filed a complaint against you.”

PAROLE DECISION

The parole decision in 2022 revoked Do’s statutory release.

Offenders serving time in a federal penitentiary in Canada automatically qualify for a statutory release after they have served two thirds of their sentence.

Do automatically received his release on Nov. 5, 2021, and breached one of the conditions attached to it less than two weeks later when he ignored a curfew and did not report to a halfway house.

Do later told his parole officers that he left the halfway house because he was unable to sleep one night.

He blamed this on another offender’s snoring and a toothache.

He said the toothache caused him to go to a hospital, but he found the wait was too long.

He decided to self-medicate by going to a childhood friend’s house seeking something for the pain.

“You admitted to using a wide variety of drugs and said you ‘went a little overboard’ by using cannabis, crack, cocaine and alcohol,” the author of the parole decision wrote.

“Not wanting to return to the (halfway house) intoxicated, you spent the night at this friend’s house.”