In what is arguably a first in Canadian law, a supposedly "insane" pedophile already locked up indefinitely in a maximum-security mental institute was yesterday declared a dangerous offender, a judgment that will see Paul Delorme go from the Penetanguishene Mental Health Centre to a segregated cell at the Kingston Pen.

In fact, he'll be on his way there today.

In a submission filed this summer, Flanagan led off with the statement that Delorme "does not have a mental illness" -- the word "not" was underlined for emphasis -- and then followed up with the fact Delorme didn't raise the "not criminally responsible" issue at his most recent trial for assaulting a young girl in the washroom of a Brockville Tim Hortons.

Back in 1989, however, Delorme was found "not guilty by reason of insanity" for the knife-point sexual assault of a 12-year-old girl in the women's washroom of an Ottawa community centre.