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Dave Feick walks around the top floor of a converted duplex in Saskatoon’s Pleasant Hill neighbourhood, pointing to a small, empty meeting room. It’s one of the meeting places used by an unusual support group for some of the most vilified people in society.

Just as there are support groups for alcoholics, Feick believes the same is needed for child porn and child sex offenders.

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“Every one of them is going to be released at some point, so it’s best to have some sort of way for them to reintegrate without reoffending,” he says.

Feick is the co-ordinator of the Micah Mission, an organization that partners with local church members to offer restorative justice programs including Circles of Support and Accountability (CoSA). The national, community-based program is a support group specifically for sex offenders.

Feick says 17 of the 23 men they work with are either child porn users or direct child sex offenders.