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George Pitt, the Saint John man serving a life sentence for the 1993 murder of six-year-old Samantha Toole, has been denied day parole. The Parole Board of Canada cited his refusal of sex-offender programming, risk assessments and gaps in his release plan.
Pitt’s refusal to take sex-offender programming among factors cited by parole board
Polina Kozlova · CBC News
· Posted: Aug 26, 2026 1:26 PM EDT | Last Updated: 1 hour ago
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A handcuffed George Pitt is shown entering the courthouse in Fredericton, where his unsuccessful appeal was heard in June 1996. (CBC)
George Pitt, the New Brunswick man serving a life sentence for the first-degree murder of six-year-old Samantha Toole, has been denied day parole.
The Parole Board of Canada decided the former Saint John man’s proposed release plan would not adequately manage the risk he posed.
The case dates back to October 1993, when Samantha, the daughter of Pitt’s then-girlfriend, Gloria Toole, was found dead in the St. John River.
The parole board decision, dated Aug. 17, says the board was not satisfied Pitt could be released on day parole without presenting an “undue risk to society.”
During his 1994 trial in Saint John,
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