GETTING EVEN WITH PAEDOPHILES-
HARD CANDY
Hard Candy is a brilliant movie of payback by a 14 year old getting revenge 4 the monsters who raped and murdered her friend.... in the end... he say's he didn't acutually rape and murder the kid- his friend did... he just filmed it.... the cool kid simply says... that's what Aaron said... brilliant...
BEST KID GETTING EVEN WITH PAEDOPHILE MOVIE- HARD CANDY-
PAEDOPHILE HUNTING/PAEDOPHILE HUNTING
Hard Candy is a 2005 thriller film focusing on the torture of a suspected sexual predator by a 14-year-old vigilante.
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Perfect Movie
14 year old kid- paedophile hunting- THAT'S WHAT CHA GET 4 HUNTING, RAPING, BEATING KILLING LITTLE KIDS MOTHA-F***A
Hard Candy Unofficial Trailer
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This was my final project for my Intro to Film class. I created a trailer for the movie "Hard Candy" (2005). Using only clips from the movie itself and a collection of designer sound effects, I came up with this. This is the first trailer I've ever even attempted, and considering that, I think I did a pretty good job. If I ever try any others, I'm going to try and play more with sound bites over other clips.
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PAEDOPHILE ALERT/PAEDOPHILE ALERT/PAEDOPHILE ALERT
U of T prof arrested on child porn charges
Benjamin Levin is currently a professor at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto.
By: Jennifer Pagliaro News reporter, Published on Mon Jul 08 2013
Police have arrested a University of Toronto professor and member of Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne’s transition team on child exploitation charges that include making child pornography.
Benjamin Levin, 61, was arrested Monday and charged with two counts of distributing child pornography and one count each of making child pornography, counselling to commit an indictable offence and agreeing to or arranging for a sexual offence against a child under 16.
Levin, who is currently a professor at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto and is the Canada research chair in education leadership and policy, was once deputy minister of education from 2004 to 2009 under former premier Dalton McGuinty.
Levin was also named to Wynne’s transition team earlier this year after she became leader of the Ontario Liberal Party in January.
According to his curriculum vitae posted online, Levin graduated from the University of Manitoba and then Harvard before attending the University of Toronto.
He has also worked for the department of education in Manitoba, including as deputy minister from 1999 to 2002 and is the author of several books including Making a Difference in Urban Schools.
An online, multi-jurisdictional, child exploitation investigation led by the sex crimes unit’s child exploitation section is ongoing. Levin will appear in court Monday afternoon.
http://www.thestar.com/news/crime/2013/07/08/u_of_t_prof_former_deputy_minister_education_arrested_for_child_porn.html
AND... PAEDOPHILE HUNTING... PAEDOPHILE HUNTING
Molester jailed for three years
Guysborough County man, 84, convicted of abusing four foster children
STEVE BRUCE COURT REPORTER
sbr uce@herald.ca @CH_cour ts
An 84-year-old Guysborough County man has b een s entenced to three years in prison for molesting four of the many foster children he and his wife to ok into their home.
John Archibald Connolly of Guysborough Intervale was found guilty of five sex-related charges at trial in Nova Scotia Supreme Court in February.
Connolly was s entenced June 27 in Guysborough. Justice Gerald Moir’s written decision was released Friday.
Moir said Connolly was older than any of the offenders in the case law he considered.
"His age and health make specific deterrence unnecessary," the judge said.
"However, I have to consider what he did in the context o f the general society.
"Foster children have much to overcome, without being molested. To deliberately harm a vulnerable foster child violates the trust obligation a foster parent owes to the child and to society."
Connolly and his wife provided foster children with what appeared to be an excellent place to live for several decades, Moir said. But four women complained to police many years later that Connolly had abus ed them as children.
The first girl to be molested was in the home from 1956 to 1965.
She was repeatedly raped until she was old enough to b etter fend for herself, the judge said.
The next two victims were in the residence from the late 1960s until the mid-1970s. The fourth victim arrived at the home as a toddler and was there until 1980. The judge said those three girls endured "degrading sexual assau lts."
"As the household grew and became more crowded, Mr. Connolly desisted from the extreme assaults the first girl underwent because of the risk of detection," Moir said.
Connolly suffers from numerous physical problems, the court heard. He had an aneurysm and open heart surgery about seven years ago. Shortly after that, he was operated on for bowel cancer and had a permanent colostomy.
He also has a pacemaker and suffers from small strokes. He’s on medication for heart disease, strokes, prostate problems, cardiovascular difficulties and depression caused by the criminal case.
The defence recommended an 18-month conditional sentence featuring house arrest.
The Crown said the appropriate punishment wou ld b e four to six years in a penitentiary.
Moir gave Connolly three years in prison on each count, to be served concurrently.
"It would be much longer if it had not b een for his health , his age and his loss o f standing in a small rural community," the judge said.
He said the victims are strong adults who, after years of living with a secret, may now be free to move on .
"But there are many others not strong enough to endure and overcome what they have suffered," Moir said of victims of sex abuse.
"I have no choice but to keep in mind the next foster parent who is tempted to abus e their foster child. Such a foster parent has to know that, sooner or later, they will be called to account .
"If they choose as Mr. Connolly did, there is no limit on when they will be exposed to severe punishment ."
The judge ordered Connolly to provide a sample of his DNA for a national databank and to register as a sex offender after he gets out of prison.
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Shoot-from-the-lip Toews will be sorely missed BUT AM THRILLED THAT PETER MACKAY IS NOW MINISTER OF JUSTICE...
Distributing sexy images without consent should be a Criminal Code offence: report
By Tobi Cohen, Postmedia News July 19, 2013 5:52 PM
Distributing sexy images without consent should be a Criminal Code offence: report
Rehtaeh Parsons.
OTTAWA — The federal government will consider making it a criminal offence to knowingly distribute racy photos of a person without their consent, newly minted Justice Minister Peter MacKay said Friday.
It’s among several recommendations contained in a new report by federal, provincial and territorial justice and public safety ministers that was expedited following the death of Rehtaeh Parsons, a Nova Scotia teenager who took her own life in April after images of her alleged rape were circulated over the Internet.
The government promised to fast-track a review of Canada’s cyberbullying laws after Prime Minister Stephen Harper met with Parson’s family weeks after her death.
"For my part, I will consider the report and its recommendations, which will help guide the way forward to ensuring our children are safe from online exploitation," MacKay said in a statement.
"I look forward to working together with the provinces and territories as we make improvements to our justice system to prevent such tragic circumstances from happening again."
The report suggests the offence ought to be punishable by as many as five years in prison. It also recommends new provisions that would permit judges to order intimate images removed from the Internet and cellphones, computers and other equipment used in the commission of an offence to be forfeited.
The report, however, stopped short of demanding new laws to specifically address bullying and cyberbullying. It concluded "existing" Criminal Code offences like criminal harassment, uttering threats, intimidation, unauthorized use of a computer, extortion, defamatory libel and child pornography "generally cover most serious bullying behaviour."
Instead, it called for the Criminal Code to be amended to "modernize certain existing offences to deal with harassment through electronic media, as well as the investigative powers for law enforcement, to ensure that all acts of cyberbullying carried out through the use of new technologies can be effectively investigated and prosecuted."
For example, the ministerial group said Sect. 372 of the Criminal Code deals with false messages sent by letter, telegram, telephone, cable and radio as well as indecent and harassing telephone calls.
"As currently drafted, these offences may not apply in situations of cyberbullying if the information is conveyed via text or email," the report concluded.
The group ultimately called on the government to resurrect elements of failed legislation, including Bill C-30, the controversial Internet surveillance bill that was scrapped amid public outrage over privacy concerns and former Public Safety Minister Vic Toews’ contention that the bill’s opponents were essentially siding with child pornographers.
While that bill sought to compel Internet and telephone companies to hand over personal customer information to law enforcement agencies even if they didn’t have a warrant, the report urges a more balanced approach that takes privacy protections into account.
For example, the report calls for amendments that would allow police to "freeze" evidence while they obtain a warrant to prevent Internet or mobile service providers from deleting the data in the interim. The ministerial group also recommends "streamlining" the process for obtaining a court order to "intercept private communications" as they relate to the non-consensual distribution of intimate images.
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http://www.montrealgazette.com/life/Report+calls+consentual+sexting+made+Criminal+Code/8683035/story.html
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Museum curator arrested on child porn charges
The Canada Agriculture Museum’s curator was arrested at Toronto’s Pearson International Airport late Thursday night, suspected of being "a major distributor" of child pornography.
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UNITED NATIONS HAS BECOME THE VERY DESPOT AND STEALER OF CHILDREN'S SOULS THAT IT WAS CREATED 2 PROTECT... the innocents... whilst they sit in luxery in their $$$$Billion a year salaries and lavish trappings...
UNITED NATIONS n CANADA- Human Sex Trafficking Global Youth/Kids MUST STOP- 26 Million n counting/Canada/USA/Europe/Asia/Arab Nations/Russia and on and on- UNITED NATIONS SHAME ON U-May 24
DID u know...
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UNITED NATIONS IS BLACK HAT MEN WHO HATE WOMEN- the planet is 63% women- WE NEED TO TAKE UNITED NATIONS DOWN- they don't even have Equality of women as law... and most insulting.... UNITED STATES OF AMERICA WON'T VOTE 4 WOMEN'S EQUALITY- or children... 4 that matter...
IT TAKES GUTS TO MAKE THESE KINDS OF RAW, REAL AND POWERFUL MOVIES OPENING THE HORRIBLE EVIL OF HUMAN TRAFFICKING- Rachel Weisz will always be a hero to me and mine... and the book.... READ THE BOOK- TRUE STORY- ANOTHER UNITED NATIONS F**K-UP
Exposing Injustices, the Real-Life Kind
Andrei Alexandru/Samuel Goldwyn Films
Rachel Weisz, as a United Nations peacekeeper in Bosnia in the 1990s, in "The Whistleblower."
The Whistleblower - Trailer (Starring Rachel Weisz)
HUMAN TRAFFICKING
What the UN Doesn't Want You to Know-
In 1999, Kathryn Bolkovac went to Bosnia as part of a UN mission. She discovered terrible wrongdoing - and refused to stay silent about it. She tells Nisha Lilia Diu her incredible story, now the subject of a film starring Rachel Weisz.
Kathryn Bolkovac
Photo: DANA LIXENBERG
Kathryn Bolkovac at a military base in Zenica, Bosnia, with a Turkish soldier (who is unconnected with events described here) Image 1 of 5Kathryn Bolkovac at a military base in Zenica, Bosnia, with a Turkish soldier (who is unconnected with events described here) Bolkovac at her desk in Sarajevo in 1999 Image 1 of 5Bolkovac at her desk in Sarajevo in 1999 Rachel Weisz and Rayisa Kondracki in The Whistleblower Image 1 of 5Rachel Weisz and Rayisa Kondracki in The Whistleblower Jacques Paul Klein in Liberia in 2003
Nisha Lilia Diu By Nisha Lilia Diu
4:42PM GMT 06 Feb 2012
'Do you want coffee? Baileys? Coffee and Baileys?’ Kathryn Bolkovac pours a dash of liqueur into a black onyx mug. 'That’s what I’m having.’
She’s just home from work on this icy Friday evening in a small city near Amsterdam.
She has lived in Holland, with her Dutch husband, ever since her life was transformed by events so extraordinary they have been made into a film, The Whistleblower, starring Rachel Weisz.
Before going on a UN peacekeeping mission to Bosnia 13 years ago , Bolkovac, 51, was a police officer in Nebraska. She specialised in sex crimes, was nicknamed Xena: Warrior Princess, and had a 95 per cent conviction rate.
'It was actually higher than that,’ she corrects me, settling on an L-shaped chocolate suede sofa. I tell her that in Britain the rape conviction rate is more like 6 per cent. She laughs, amazed.
'You have to get confessions. That’s the trick – knowing how to interview people.’
But with 10 years on the street and two failed marriages behind her, it was time for a change.
She signed up with DynCorp, the private contractor providing American personnel for the UN mission in Bosnia. The war was only recently ended and the country’s legal infrastructure was in disarray.
Bolkovac thought of 'all the good, meaningful work I was going to do’, training Bosnian police officers and re-establishing law and order.
The first of several nasty shocks came before she’d even left: among the recruits at DynCorp’s training week in Texas was a man from Mississippi. He’d been to Bosnia before and had had such a good time he was going again.
He told them all how scenic it was, adding, 'and I know where you can get really nice 12- to 15-year-olds’. Bolkovac was baffled, believing she’d misheard.
In Bosnia, where there were so many dead the Olympic football stadium had been turned into a cemetery, she threw herself into her work.
Soon Madeleine Rees, the head of the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, had recruited her to run a pilot project on violence against women.
While there, working in a police station with a hole in the floor for a lavatory, Bolkovac secured Bosnia’s first conviction for domestic violence.
Then one day the body of a skimpily dressed Ukrainian girl came floating down the River Bosna. Soon after, a Moldovan girl was found wandering the river banks.
Bolkovac attempted to interview her but only understood one word, 'Florida’, the name of a nightclub where she’d often see UN vehicles parked.
When she arrived the club was deserted. She found stacks of American dollars and foreign passports in a safe and, behind a locked door, seven girls. 'Sheer terror,’ says Bolkovac of the looks on the girls’ faces. 'It was exactly as you see in the film: 'they’re huddled, they’re holding each other, they’re on these bare, stained mattresses.’ They were too afraid to talk. One of them pointed to the river outside. 'We don’t want to end up floating.’
Dozens of girls began turning up at Bolkovac’s station with 'eerily similar’ stories:
They’d taken a job abroad as a waitress or cleaner or nanny - often at the insistence of their own families - but during the journey everything had gone wrong.
They were taken somewhere else altogether, forcibly stripped and sold to someone who humiliated, beat and raped them into dead-eyed submission. Now they were imprisoned in brothels in Bosnia.
'People ask me what’s true,’ says the film’s director, Larysa Kondracki. 'But it’s barely scratching the surface. We had to tone it down.’
The problem was so widespread, says Rees (now secretary general of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom), 'Kathy ended up having time to deal with nothing but trafficking.’
Girls who escaped were frequently found – sometimes grabbed outside safe houses – and brutally punished by their pimp, with the others made to watch. But that wasn’t the only reason they wouldn’t testify.
'They didn’t expect [the police] to help them,’ says Bolkovac.
She discovered numerous individuals in the Bosnian and UN police (which was made up of some 1,800 officers from 45 countries) who were not only using trafficked prostitutes but were on the traffickers’ pay-roll.
They were paid to give warnings on raids, return girls who escaped or, when rescued girls were repatriated ('dumped somewhere on the border’, according to Bolkovac), let the traffickers know where they could collect them so they could be 'recycled back into the system.
'Free access to the girls was an added perk.’
Bolkovac is fresh-faced and young-looking, with a thick ponytail of light-blonde hair, but she seems tired.
'I found it intolerable,’ she says. The more she investigated, the more her UN colleagues turned against her.
'She’d been very popular and one of the lads,’ says Rees. 'And you could see she was getting increasingly isolated in the cafeteria; people weren’t sitting with her.’
Bolkovac’s files went missing, her superiors pulled her cases, people warned her to back off.
Eventually, she wrote an email detailing everything she’d learnt and sent it to 50 senior mission personnel, with the subject 'Do not read this if you have a weak stomach or a guilty conscience’.
Four days later she was demoted, and a few months after that DynCorp fired her for falsifying her timesheets.
But Bolkovac had kept copies of all her files; her mantra, she says, has always been 'document, document, document’. She successfully sued DynCorp for unfair dismissal for making a protected disclosure – legal-speak for whistleblowing.
The tribunal stated, 'It is hard to imagine a case in which a firm has behaved in a more callous manner.’
Within hours of the ruling DynCorp settled a second whistleblowing case against it, offering an undisclosed sum to an aircraft mechanic from Texas called Ben Johnston, who had evidence of UN personnel buying and selling girls elsewhere in Bosnia.
Johnston signed a gagging order. 'It was very disappointing,’ says Bolkovac with a sigh.
Most disappointing of all was what happened next: several men were sent home, but none was punished further. No future employer will ever know what these men were guilty of.
I asked DynCorp if its guidelines had become more stringent since 2001 and was sent its code of ethics.
It states that 'engaging in or supporting any trafficking in persons […] is prohibited. Any person who violates this standard or fails to report violations of this standard shall be subject to disciplinary action, up to and including termination of employment.’
So nothing has changed.
DynCorp continues to win multimillion-dollar military contracts with the American government in Iraq, Afghanistan and Haiti among other places.
This is despite paying a $155,000 settlement to a contractor in Iraq in January 2012 and, in June 2011, $7.7 million to the US State Department itself over charges of filing false paperwork.
Unlike those who had been quietly sent home, Bolkovac’s professional record was blighted by her dismissal and she’s been unable to find work in international law enforcement since.
She currently works at an auctioneers which deals in industrial and agricultural equipment, as well as consulting and speaking at universities and NGOs in her own time.
The UN mission in Bosnia finished in January 2003 but the abuses did not end there.
In fact, Jacques Paul Klein, the head of the UN mission in Bosnia, went on to lead the UN mission in Liberia, where he presided over similar scandals.
He has now 'dropped off the face of the earth’, says Bolkovac.
He was retired from the UN after allegedly having an affair with a woman who was taking his UN secrets to the Liberian dictator, Charles Taylor. 'You couldn’t make it up, could you?’ says Rees.
Recent years have seen allegations of sexual exploitation by UN peacekeepers in the Ivory Coast, the Congo, Columbia… The list goes on.
But UN personnel have hitherto been protected by diplomatic immunity – meaning they can’t be prosecuted in their mission country – and political expediency. Once they're home governments often have little desire to highlight their troops' bad behaviour.
As a result of Bolkovac’s revelations, however, the UN set up a conduct and discipline unit in 2007.
Susana Malcorra, who heads it up, tells me the UN can waive immunity if needs be: 'It does not cover personal misconduct.’
More usually, the UN kicks people off its missions and hands the investigation and punishment over to the member state.
'We go back to member states quarterly to remind them of cases they still have open,’ says Malcorra. 'We will not give up on following up on every single case that is pending in our file.’
Have there been prosecutions? 'In the most horrible cases I have seen jail for significant periods.’
Nevertheless, Bolkovac believes trafficking is still not taken seriously. '
You should see the amount of money that’s put into training for anti-terrorism and gun-smuggling,’ she says. 'But when it comes to human trafficking and violence against women you don’t see the same resources being generated.’
Sex trafficking is not, unfortunately, confined to areas with a military presence.
The New York-based Somaly Mam Foundation, set up by a Cambodian woman who was trafficked as a child, estimates there are 2.7 million people enslaved globally, 85 per cent of whom are women and girls in forced prostitution.
The most recent figure for England and Wales is 12,000, which Abigail Stepnitz of the British anti-trafficking organisation Poppy Project, calls 'a tip-of-the-iceberg number’.
'For me the idea is to go after the demand end, to stop focussing on the victims,’ says Bolkovac. 'We have to focus on prosecution of the perpetrators.’
This is starting to happen.
Joseph Yannai, an author based in New York State, was convicted last June of trafficking girls from Europe, tricking them with adverts seeking editorial assistance. He’s facing a sentence of up to 80 years.
Also last year, a Romanian father and son operating a huge forced prostitution ring in Britain were given 21 years.
And, as Ariel Siegel at the Somaly Mam Foundation says, 'Men have to realise that the women they have encounters with might not be willing, despite appearances.’ In Britain it is illegal to pay for sex with someone who is being coerced.
The Whistleblower was recently screened at UN headquarters in New York (though not before an internal memo was leaked showing that some officials wanted to ignore its release).
Bolkovac has since been invited by the UN to hold a signing of her book, a riveting, fast-paced account of her time in Bosnia, also called The Whistleblower. 'I’ve followed up twice to set a date,’ she says. 'No response whatsoever.’
No one within the organisation, or at DynCorp, has yet apologised to Bolkovac for the treatment she received, much less praised her for going after wrongdoing and attempting to raise the standard.
Not yet.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/9041974/What-the-UN-Doesnt-Want-You-to-Know.html
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FROM ALJAZEERA- UNITED KINGDOM
Tackling modern day slavery
Britain gets serious in addressing the very lucrative business of human trafficking.
Last modified: 14 May 2013 14:39
Laurence Lee
Walk down the streets of Soho in central London and sex is right in your face - strip clubs, porn shops, open doors with handwritten signs saying 'model upstairs'.
We did a bit of secret filming a few days ago, went into a few of the places where the prostitutes hang out. It was three in the afternoon and they were full of men of all ages.
"Hello darling," said the brothel madam. "Come and see the lady for yourself".
The 'lady' came into the bedroom in her underwear, no more than 20 years old.
Her manner was brisk, her accent and appearance somewhere from central or southern Europe. 'Twenty pounds for sex' she said.
We looked at her open mouthed in amazement. Twenty pounds is thirty dollars.
That's the price of a couple of pizzas in London. The police told us later that the women are made to pay rent to their handlers before they make any money of their own.
The calculation is that she would have to have sex with 15 men every week to break even.
Campaigners say that prostitution at that price almost certainly means the woman has been trafficked - you cannot possibly live on an income that low even if you were doing it voluntarily.
Modern-day slavery
Britain has been accused - quite recently - of not taking trafficking seriously.
After all, say the campaigners, it is basically slavery in a modern form, the second biggest organised crime in the world behind drugs and Britain's a favoured target for traffickers.
You would expect Europeans to be victims in a borderless continent, but the two biggest groups are from Nigeria and Vietnam.
Forced labour of Asian men is a huge problem too in underground drugs factories.
But it's becoming clear that gradually that England is starting to take a leading role in getting on top of trafficking.
A police raid, early in the morning, right next to Chelsea's football ground in west London, and out came two Russian women in handcuffs, allegedly part of a bigger and very organised gang bringing women into the UK.
Twenty or thirty officers at various locations doing simultaneous and well organised raids. How many do they do like this? 71 last year, apparently.
That's well over one every week in London alone.
The Home Office (border control, police, immigration) and the Foreign Office are also trying to be more organised up and there's more of a push in tandem with other European police forces to stop the problem at source rather than once it's established here.
It is really difficult though because London's got so many foreigners in it and the trafficking happens in plain sight and on such a massive scale.
Incredibly lucrative
You could see that from the place where we found the victims of the traffickers. A house converted into flats on a main thoroughfare, right opposite Earls Court exhibition centre in fashionable west London.
While waiting for the police to bring the women out we did some more maths. Seven women in five flats. Each flat would be rented by the traffickers for about 2500 dollars a month.
That means the traffickers must make $140,000 before they turn a profit on one property alone, and still it is incredibly lucrative.
The police said that Earls Court was full of similar places, so even if you accept they recognise the scale of this even they'd agree that they're far from on top of it. It's slavery, right under the noses of people driving to work and getting on the underground.
A quick plug for some excellent campaigners who have taken an animated film to no fewer than 13 Eastern European countries to warn young women that if it sounds too good to be true it probably is. They're off to Ukraine and Russia next, and they'll have their work cut out too.
Have a look yourself - you'll never trust a man who claims he can get a woman work in Britain again: www.twolittlegirls.org
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Has the UN learned lessons of Bosnian sex slavery revealed in Rachel Weisz film?
The Whistleblower is a shocking film that reveals how Balkan peacekeepers turned a blind eye to kidnapping, torture and rape. But these abuses still go on
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jan/15/bosnia-sex-trafficking-whistleblower
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CHILD VICTOR OVER PAEDOPHILE- baseball player RA Dickey
Fighting sexual exploitation
Pitcher aims to create ‘miracles’ with Mumbai centre
By LORI EWING The Canadian Press
R.A. Dickey said the pictures and literature couldn’t have prepared him for the young boy who approached him last week on one of the squalid streets of Mumbai’s red-light district.
The boy was maybe three years old, four at best. He had no pants on. His body was covered with open sores.
"He was playing amongst the open sewage and filth with rats as big as dogs. Unsupervised," the Toronto Blue Jays’ new knuckleballer said on a conference call Tuesday from India’s most populous city. "You see these images and pictures that just don’t seem like they should exist. And you hope that it’s the only one. . . but that’s what’s representative, these lives that just don’t have a voice."
The 38-year-old is in Mumbai to work with Bombay Teen Challenge, a Christian organization that has rescued women and children from sex trafficking for the past 23 years.
It’s a cause that Dickey says speaks to his own narrative. He wrote about his own sexual abuse suffered as a child in his autobiography Wherever I Wind Up, My Quest for Truth, Authenticity and the Perfect Knuckleball.
"It’s authentic to me because of my past experience, also I have a sentimentality to it because the girls that I’ve seen first-hand in the streets, these 19, 20, 21-year-old girls. You have to look beyond that and see at one point they were daughters themselves, and having two daughters. . . that just for me was so compelling."
He made the trip with his daughters, 11-year-old Gabriel and Lila, who’s nine.
"I want to give my children a heart for humanity," Dickey said. "The only way to really do that is to get them outside of the bubble that they live in, and expose them in very measured ways to what real life is to a lot of people. They’ve responded beautifully."
The 2012 NL Cy Young winner said it’s been "a roller-coaster" visit from the visceral red-light images of women in door ways and the cages where they keep them when they’re first trafficked in.
But he also saw hope.
Dickey and his daughters stayed at Ashagram, a rehabilitation campus outside Mumbai that’s home to 300 women and children. They were the "most hopeful days" of the trip. They played cricket and sang songs with the children, many of whom are HIV positive.
"Those are the miracles, the 300 lives in Ashagram, those are 300 living miracles," Dickey said. "Sure (Gabriel and Lily) heard about the wickedness and the darkness, but they got to actually see the redemption, so their response has been really positive. This is a seminal trip for them."
Dickey, who speaks openly with his daughters about his own sexual abuse, helped celebrate the opening of a clinic in the midst of Mumbai’s red-light district. He helped pay for the clinic, raising over $100,000 by climbing Mount Kilimanjaro last winter.
"The facility is like a beacon of light in the middle of a swamp," he said.
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Toronto Blue Jays pitcher R.A Dickey has travelled to Mumbai, India, as part of work with the Bombay Teen Challenge, a Christian organization that rescues women and children from sex trafficking. (CHRIS YOUNG / CP)
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Now Justice Minister Peter MacKay... hooya
JUSTICE 4 OUR CHILDREN AND VICTIMS IN CANADA
Justice minister rolls out new measures targeting child sex assaults
Monday, February 4, 2013
By The Canadian Press
Former NHLer Sheldon Kennedy (left) speaks at a news conference with Justice Minister Rob Nicholson in Toronto on Monday, Feb. 4, 2013. Nicholson announced government plans to stiffen penalties for child-sex offenders and create a victims bill of rights. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Colin Perkel
TORONTO - The federal government wants sex predators who prey on children to face tougher sentences.
Justice Minister Rob Nicholson and former victims of sex abuse are in Toronto today to also propose stiffer new court processes and a strategy to support young victims.
On hand for the announcement was former NHL player Sheldon Kennedy.
The Conservative government has been working with victims of sexual abuse to develop a strategy that goes beyond simply harsher punishments.
However, sentencing concerns have been highlighted since former hockey coach Graham James was jailed for two years last year for assaults on former NHL star Theoren Fleury and his cousin Todd Holt in the 1980s and 90s.
James had previously been convicted of assaulting Kennedy and another young hockey player and was sentenced to three and half years in 1997.
The Crown has appealed James's latest sentence as being too lenient.
Kennedy and Greg Gilhooly, whose sexual-assault charges against James were stayed when James pleaded guilty to the charges involving Fleury and Holt, have been pushing for more help for victims of sexual abuse.
And the government appears to be listening.
Nicholson made a series of funding announcements in the last week of January geared toward child-assault victims.
In Calgary, the justice minister pledged $185,000 for the Canadian Society for the Investigation of Child Abuse, which is working on the creation of a national voluntary certification program for forensic child interviewers.
Ottawa also provided $1.2 million for three separate programs in Montreal that deal with young victims of sex abuse, committed $600,000 to victims of crime in Yukon and promoted a Children's Advocacy Centre in Winnipeg.
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HERE'S UR PROOF- One billion rising- breaking the chains..
EUROPEAN CHILD- SEX TRAFFICKING-TRUE STORY
Two Little Girls (shown as part of the exhibition not Natasha)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udHSutTF4Us
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'Two Little Girls' was shown as part of the exhibition 'not Natasha' by Dana Popa at Impressions Gallery, Bradford, in partnership with Autograph ABP. This hard-hitting and harrowing exhibition, documented the experiences of sex-trafficked women from Moldova through photography and collected stories.
Read more about the exhibition at http://bit.ly/9j3RlH
The short animated film 'Two Little Girls' follows the stories of two young women who are cruelly deceived by loved ones. Their stories reflect the two most common ways women and girls are lured from their homes and are trafficked into prostitution by people they know and trust.
The film was made in consultation with five Albanian women who were trafficked into the UK and had agreed to share their experiences with the film makers to ensure the accuracy of their stories. This a powerful cautionary tale which has already become a talking point amongst victims of the sex-trafficking trade. While many films on the subject are often distressing and difficult to watch, this film draws in the audience with its animated fairy tale stlye and music before hitting home with its serious message.
Narrated by Juliet Stevenson.
Produced by Maggie Baxter and Ruth Beni.
Directed by Peter Baynton
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OVER 26 MILLION CHILDREN/WOMEN TRAFFICKED GLOBALLY
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Human Trafficking
1.Approximately 75-80% of human trafficking is for sex.a
2.Researchers note that sex trafficking plays a major role in the spread of HIV.b
3.There are more human slaves in the world today than ever before in history.l
4.There are an estimated 27 million adults and 13 million children around the world who are victims of human trafficking.l
5.Human trafficking not only involves sex and labor, but people are also trafficked for organ harvesting.k
6.Human traffickers often use a Sudanese phrase "use a slave to catch slaves," meaning traffickers send "broken-in girls" to recruit younger girls into the sex trade. Sex traffickers often train girls themselves, raping them and teaching them sex acts.l
7.Eighty percent of North Koreans who escape into China are women. Nine out of 10 of those women become victims of human trafficking, often for sex. If the women complain, they are deported back to North Korea, where they are thrown into gulags or are executed.h
woman human trafficking Approximately 30,000 victims of sex trafficking die each year 8.An estimated 30,000 victims of sex trafficking die each year from abuse, disease, torture, and neglect. Eighty percent of those sold into sexual slavery are under 24, and some are as young as six years old.j
9.Ludwig "Tarzan" Fainberg, a convicted trafficker, said, "You can buy a woman for $10,000 and make your money back in a week if she is pretty and young. Then everything else is profit."l
10.A human trafficker can earn 20 times what he or she paid for a girl. Provided the girl was not physically brutalized to the point of ruining her beauty, the pimp could sell her again for a greater price because he had trained her and broken her spirit, which saves future buyers the hassle. A 2003 study in the Netherlands found that, on average, a single sex slave earned her pimp at least $250,000 a year.l
11.Although human trafficking is often a hidden crime and accurate statistics are difficult to obtain, researchers estimate that more than 80% of trafficking victims are female. Over 50% of human trafficking victims are children.l
12.The end of the Cold War has resulted in the growth of regional conflicts and the decline of borders. Many rebel groups turn to human trafficking to fund military actions and garner soldiers.k
13.According to a 2009 Washington Times article, the Taliban buys children as young as seven years old to act as suicide bombers. The price for child suicide bombers is between $7,000-$14,000.n
14.UNICEF estimates that 300,000 children younger than 18 are currently trafficked to serve in armed conflicts worldwide.n
baby sold Pregnant women are increasingly being trafficked for their newborns 15.Human traffickers are increasingly trafficking pregnant women for their newborns. Babies are sold on the black market, where the profit is divided between the traffickers, doctors, lawyers, border officials, and others. The mother is usually paid less than what is promised her, citing the cost of travel and creating false documents. A mother might receive as little as a few hundred dollars for her baby.k
16.More than 30% of all trafficking cases in 2007-2008 involved children being sold into the sex industry.o
17.The Western presence in Kosovo, such as NATO troops and civilians, have fueled the rapid growth of sex trafficking and forced prostitution. Amnesty International has reported that NATO soldiers, UN police, and Western aid workers "operated with near impunity in exploiting the victims of the sex traffickers."g
18.Lady Gaga’s "Bad Romance" video is about human trafficking. In the video, Gaga is trafficked by a Russian bathhouse into sex slavery.f
19.Human trafficking is the only area of transnational crime in which women are significantly represented—as victims, as perpetrators, and as activists fighting this crime.a
20.Global warming and severe natural disasters have left millions homeless and impoverished, which has created desperate people easily exploited by human traffickers.k
21.Over 71% of trafficked children show suicidal tendencies.l
22.After sex, the most common form of human trafficking is forced labor. Researchers argue that as the economic crisis deepens, the number of people trafficked for forced labor will increase.k
23.Most human trafficking in the United States occurs in New York, California, and Florida.l
24.According to United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), over the past 30 years, over 30 million children have been sexually exploited through human trafficking.k
25.Several countries rank high as source countries for human trafficking, including Belarus, the Republic of Moldova, the Russian Federation, Ukraine, Albania, Bulgaria, Lithuania, Romania, China, Thailand, and Nigeria.l
26.Belgium, Germany, Greece, Israel, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Thailand, Turkey, and the U.S. are ranked very high as destination countries of trafficked victims.l
27.Women are trafficked to the U.S. largely to work in the sex industry (including strip clubs, peep and touch shows, massage parlors that offer sexual services, and prostitution). They are also trafficked to work in sweatshops, domestic servitude, and agricultural work.l
rape Sex traffickers often use brutal violence to "condition" their victims 28.Sex traffickers use a variety of ways to "condition" their victims, including subjecting them to starvation, rape, gang rape, physical abuse, beating, confinement, threats of violence toward the victim and victim’s family, forced drug use, and shame.l
29.Family members will often sell children and other family members into slavery; the younger the victim, the more money the trafficker receives. For example, a 10-year-old named Gita was sold into a brothel by her aunt. The now 22-year-old recalls that when she refused to work, the older girls held her down and stuck a piece of cloth in her mouth so no one would hear her scream as she was raped by a customer. She would later contract HIV.l
30.Human trafficking is one of the fastest growing criminal enterprises because it holds relatively low risk with high profit potential. Criminal organizations are increasingly attracted to human trafficking because, unlike drugs, humans can be sold repeatedly.k
31.Human trafficking is estimated to surpass the drug trade in less than five years. Journalist Victor Malarek reports that it is primarily men who are driving human trafficking, specifically trafficking for sex.i
32.Victims of human trafficking suffer devastating physical and psychological harm. However, due to language barriers, lack of knowledge about available services, and the frequency with which traffickers move victims, human trafficking victims and their perpetrators are difficult to catch.i
33.In approximately 54% of human trafficking cases, the recruiter is a stranger, and in 46% of the cases, the recruiters know the victim. Fifty-two percent of human trafficking recruiters are men, 42% are women, and 6% are both men and women.d
34.Human trafficking around the globe is estimated to generate a profit of anywhere from $9 billion to $31.6 billion. Half of these profits are made in industrialized countries.d
35.Some human traffickers recruit handicapped young girls, such as those suffering from Down Syndrome, into the sex industry.l
36.According to the FBI, a large human-trafficking organization in California in 2008 not only physically threatened and beat girls as young as 12 to work as prostitutes, they also regularly threatened them with witchcraft.e
37.Human trafficking is a global phenomenon that is fueled by poverty and gender discrimination.k
38.Human traffickers often work with corrupt government officials to obtain travel documents and seize passports.i
39.Women and girls from racial minorities in the U.S. are disproportionately recruited by sex traffickers in the U.S.l
40.The Sunday Telegraph in the U.K. reports that hundreds of children as young as six are brought to the U.K. as slaves each year.m
japan traffic Japan is a major hub of sex trafficking 41.Japan is considered the largest market for Asian women trafficked for sex.i
42.Airports are often used by human traffickers to hold "slave auctions," where women and children are sold into prostitution.m
43.Due to globalization, every continent of the world has been involved in human trafficking, including a country as small as Iceland.k
44.Many times, if a sex slave is arrested, she is imprisoned while her trafficker is able to buy his way out of trouble.l
45.Today, slaves are cheaper than they have ever been in history. The population explosion has created a great supply of workers, and globalization has created people who are vulnerable and easily enslaved.l
46.Human trafficking and smuggling are similar but not interchangeable. Smuggling is transportation based. Trafficking is exploitation based.l
47.Sex traffickers often recruit children because not only are children more unsuspecting and vulnerable than adults, but there is also a high market demand for young victims. Traffickers target victims on the telephone, on the Internet, through friends, at the mall, and in after-school programs.o
48.Human trafficking has been reported in all 50 states, Washington, D.C., and in some U.S. territories.e
49.The FBI estimates that over 100,000 children and young women are trafficked in America today. They range in age from nine to 19, with the average being age 11. Many victims are not just runaways or abandoned, but are from "good" families who are coerced by clever traffickers.o
50.Brazil and Thailand are generally considered to have the worst child sex trafficking records.k
51.The AIDS epidemic in Africa has left many children orphaned, making them especially vulnerable to human trafficking.l
52.Nearly 7,000 Nepali girls as young as nine years old are sold every year into India’s red-light district—or 200,000 in the last decade. Ten thousand children between the ages of six and 14 are in Sri Lanka brothels.j
53.Human trafficking victims face physical risks, such as drug and alcohol addiction, contracting STDs, sterility, miscarriages, forced abortions, vaginal and anal trauma, among others. Psychological effects include developing clinical depression, personality and dissociative disorders, suicidal tendencies, Post-Traumatic Stress Syndrome, and Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Syndrome.l
54.The largest human trafficking case in recent U.S. history occurred in Hawaii in 2010. Global Horizons Manpower, Inc., a labor-recruiting company, bought 400 immigrants in 2004 from Thailand to work on farms in Hawaii. They were lured with false promises of high-paying farm work, but instead their passports were taken away and they were held in forced servitude until they were rescued in 2010.c
55.According to the U.S. State Department, human trafficking is one of the greatest human rights challenges of this century, both in the United States and around the world.l
-- Posted January 2, 2011
References
a Aronowitz, Alexis A. 2009. Human Trafficking, Human Misery: The Global Trade in Human Beings. Santa Barbara, CA: Greenwood Publishing Group.
b Destefano, Anthony M. 2007. The War on Human Trafficking. Piscataway, NJ: Rutgers University Press.
c "Hawaii Home to Largest Human Trafficking Case in U.S. History." ABC News. September 2, 2010. Accessed: December 26, 2010.
d "Human Trafficking." Unglobalcompact.org. Accessed: December 26, 2010.
e "International Human Trafficking." FBI. November 23, 2009. Accessed: December 23, 2010.
f Keehn Anne. "Lady Gaga’s Bad Romance Video About . . . Sex Slavery?" FTSBlog.net. September 13, 2010. Accessed: December 26, 2010.
g "Kosovo U.N. Troops ‘Fuel Sex Trade.’" BBC News. May 6, 2004. Accessed: December 20, 2010.
h Liebelson, Dana. "Nine out of Ten Women Escaping North Korea Are Trafficked." Human Trafficking Change. October 29, 2010. Accessed: December 26, 2010.
i Malarek, Victor. 2003. The Natashas: Inside the New Global Sex Trade. New York, NY: Arcadia Publishers.
j "Millions Suffer in Sex Slavery." NewsMax. April 24, 2001. Accessed: December 26, 2010.
k Shelley, Louise. 2010. Human Trafficking: A Global Perspective. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.
l Skinner, E. Benjamin. 2008. A Crime So Monstrous: Face-to-Face with Modern-Day Slavery. New York, NY: Free Press.
m "Slaves Auctioned by Traffickers." BBC News. June 4, 2006. Accessed: December 28, 2010.
n "Taliban Buying Children for Suicide Bombers." The Washington Times. July 2, 2009. Accessed: December 29, 2010.
o "Teen Girls Stories of Sex Trafficking in the U.S." ABC News/Primetime. February 9, 2006. Accessed: December 26, 2010.
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Cameron tells web companies to block child sexual abuse searches
Prime minister warns of legislation if Google and other providers fail to blacklist 'sick and malevolent' terms
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2013/jul/21/cameron-block-child-sex-searches
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Porn depicting rape to be BANNED in crackdown on 'poisonous' websites as Cameron unveils protection for every home
Victory for the Mail: Prime Minister David Cameron, pictured today, today announced new rules requiring every internet connection to have porn blocked unless subscribers 'opt in' to obscene content
In a victory for the Daily Mail, David Cameron announced the move today among a series of measures cracking down on against the tide of web sleaze.
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CANADA MILITARY NEWS: Pg2Jul22- Child 11-Year-Old Yemeni Girl Nada Al-Ahdal Flees Home to Avoid Forced Marriage: I'd Rather Kill Myself - what does this say about global adults responsible4 r kids -UNITED NATIONS????
http://nova0000scotia.blogspot.ca/2013/07/canada-military-news-pg2jul22-child-11.html
ONE BILLION RISING- BREAKING THE CHAINS - the world must change 2wards women and grls- 63% of the world's population r females... 11 YEAR OLD NADA forced to marry- speaks 4 all children of this world- just like Malalas, Nedas and the children of the secret- who's lives r raped by predators
'Go ahead and marry me off - I'll kill myself': 11-year-old child bride's defiant YouTube message to family after fleeing home in Yemen
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-J7_TKgw1To
Nada al-Ahdal, from Yemen, was only saved from the forced engagement after her uncle refused to let her get married. In a harrowing video posted on YouTube the schoolgirl explains how she escaped the arranged marriage. 'Go ahead and marry me off - I'll kill myself,' she warns in the video, dated July 8, and posted on the internet.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2373151/Nada-Al-Ahdal-Escaped-Yemeni-child-bride-11-explains-ran-away-home.html
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Child Predators on the Internet
10News Anchor Kimberly Hunt investigates child predators on the internet. She also gets unprecedented access from the FBI, to its investigation of NAMBLA.
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Net Lingo & Child Safety: Decoding The Code
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5WWGQThw1o
Kidproof TV takes you on a quiz to see how much net lingo (sometimes called 'net slang') you really know. As a parent, understanding this unique cryptic online language is key in keeping your kids safe online.
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To Catch a Predator Anonymous: Operation Darknet Hackers root out child pornographers
Our manifesto:
All of our Releases/Hacks/Progress are located at:
* http://pastebin.com/u/opdarknet
Visit and support us at http://irc.lc/anonops/opdarknet
Donate securely with a Credit Card/Paypal/eCheck:
https://www.wepay.com/donate/OpDarkNet
Donate Bitcoins At:
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Justice is Expensive...
We are Anonymous.
We are Legion.
We do not forgive.
We do not forget.
Expect us.
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Child Abuse animation (anime pro)-2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9yYNz76a-o
Pakistani cartoon animation to prevent child sexual abuse made in anime pro.
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Sexual Abuse Exposed, Interview w_ Author Teresa Joyce part 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lVdQlyDYqc
Part 1 of 10 segments: Sexual abuse, emotional blackmail, psychological intimidation against a young child bleeds into adult years of tormented memories. Dr. Carol Francis, Psychologist, interviews Teresa Joyce about her personal experiences of being abused by her Step-Father from childhood and into adult years. Teresa Joyce writes her autobiography of many horrific, bizarre and twisted events in her book "There's A Thin Line" released by Chipmunka Publishers. Teresa Joyce with Dr. Carol Francis helps all individuals suffering from child abuse and the residual impact such has in adult years by exposing the topics that many wish to hide. People hide such past events for fear of hurting others, being disbelieved, shame and embarrassment, or fear of being misunderstood or blamed. But if sexual abuse to children is to come to a halt, we must help each other reveal the horrors that are and have taken place. Author Teresa Joyce does the difficult task of revealing truths and explaining the experiences those sexually abused face. This program is adopted from a radio show, Dr. Carol Francis Radio Talk Show: Make Life Happen. Archived radio shows of many topics relevant to living life productively are availabe at blogtalkradio.com/dr-carol-francis. See also DrCarolFrancis.com
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Ellen DeGeneres (Sexual abuse, Phone Call to God, Coming Out)
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REACHING OUT - CHILD ABUSE HEALING MONUMENT - Toronto, Canada
Psychotherapist and sculptor Dr. Michael Irving collaborated with survivors and their supporters to create the 300 sculpted quilt square of the "Reaching Out" Child Abuse Monument. Dr. Irving asks you to participate in creating a collective visualization of healing and prevention through creating a HandPrint for placement inside the bronze Reaching Out" Monument figures. Draw an outline of your hand on a piece of paper; write a message of healing or prevention; send your HandPrint to Dr. Irving at 274 Rhodes Ave. Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M4L 3A3. www.childabusemonument.com
"Follow Site Web Ring"
GO TO: CHILD PORNOGRAPHY AND INTERNET
http://www.irvingstudios.com/child_abuse_survivor_monument/Martin_Kruze.htm
http://www.irvingstudios.com/reaching_out_america/roa_index.htm (Canada and America)
Sweet Jesus- Mother Mary and Joseph- we hunted these monsters down in the 60s,70s and 80s... God Damm It!!!!!!- WHY IS THIS F**KER ALIVE??? Our Martin Kruze- WHO COMMITED SUICIDE-???? WTF**K- over 45 more charges 2013
Gordon Stuckless arrested again on sex charges
2:44 pm, March 27th, 2013
Gordon Stuckless approximately 20 years ago
MARYAM SHAH | QMI AGENCY
TORONTO -- Two more alleged victims have emerged in the case of sex predator Gordon Stuckless, who is currently in custody after being arrested by York Regional Police.
The latest charges against Stuckless, 64, include five counts of sexual assault, four counts of gross indecency and two counts of indecent assault on a male.
Det. Joanne Waite said Wednesday the allegations date from 1982 to 1985.
The two complainants were 11 to 13 years old at the time.
Waite confirmed the allegations are not related to Baythorn Public School, but instead stem from his time as a teaching assistant at a second, undisclosed Richmond Hill, ON school.
Waite said police are appealing for any more potential victims to come forward.
Stuckless was released from a Toronto Police station last week after being charged with 15 new sex assault charges connected to the Maple Leafs Garden scandal.
This is Stuckless' third arrest in two months.
He is scheduled to appear in a Newmarket, ON court Wednesday afternoon.
Stuckless, who worked as an usher at Maple Leaf Gardens between 1969 and 1988, pleaded guilty in 1997 to numerous sex charges involving two dozen boys.
-- With files from Sam Pazzano
http://www.sunnewsnetwork.ca/sunnews/canada/archives/2013/03/20130327-144448.html
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OUR CANADIAN SON.... we remember
Martin Kruze was raped by homosexuals Gordon Stuckless and George Hannah at the Toronto Mapleleaf Gardens. After years of dealing with the pain and violation related to his sexual abuse, Martin Kruze committed suicide by jumping off the Don Valley
Bridge on October 30, 1997. The APA declined to talk about the trauma Martin Kruze went through when they talked about ways
because of martin and so many commiting suicide from the horrors of rape and abuse- as children- and those trying to get better- CANADA - Dr. Irving with Victors of abuse and those families who lost their sons and daughters to suicide- created the following miracle of healing 4 all:
CHILD ABUSE SURVIVOR MONUMENT- Toronto, Canada- 4 the victors over childabuse- and those who did NOT make it...
The Survivor Monument Project was active at its Birch Avenue studio from 1997 to 2003.
Survivor and supporter participation in creating the quilt squares of the Child Abuse Monument was completed in 2003. In May of 2005 The Survivor Monument Project finished its work at the Birch Studio. Dr. Irving has continued to be directly involved in the fine art bronze casting of the large Monument figures.
When funding permits, Dr. Irving will complete the bronze casting of the second "Reaching Out" figure.
http://www.irvingstudios.com/child_abuse_survivor_monument/index.html
Dr. Michael Irving led
sculpting and poetry
workshops to create the
materials of the Child
Abuse Survivor
Monument Project.
The sculpted quilt
squares and poetry of
the workshop
participants became the
resource material of the
project's many activities.
The four art and poetry
books linked to from this
web page tell the story
of: the confrontation with
the angst and legacy of
child abuse; the struggle
to find answers and
understanding; the
difficult journey of
healing; the value and
power of connecting with
others; the movement
into healing and
recovery; the freedoms
and victories that are the
rewards of
perseverance.
These books are
presented here to assist
others with understanding
and healing.
We are seeking a
publisher who would
publish these as art and
poetry books. Contact
Dr. Irving at
mci@irvingstudios.com
"HandPrints to Give Kids a Hand"
(PDF version of instructions for printing)
(PDF version of template page for printing)
Sculptor and Psychotherapist, Dr. Michael C. Irving is asking you to share his vision of "A massive visualization of the world we want for children" by letting your hand join others inside the "Reaching Out Child Abuse Monument."
Dr. Irving and the participants who collaborated with him to sculpt the quilt squares of the "Reaching Out" Monument shared a common desire that the Child Abuse Monument would be an extraordinary force assisting with helping survivors to heal and for the prevention of child abuse.
The sculpture above is the first completed bronze of two figures composing the "Reaching Out" monument vignette. The second figure will take another year to complete after funding is raised for the art foundry process.
Dr. Irving is using the first figure as the centre piece of the "Creating A New Reality" campaign to generate a massive "National Visualization of Healing and Prevention." Dr. Irving is asking people to draw an outline of their hand on a piece of paper and just sign their initials or write a message.
The HandPrint Visualizations can be for:
a.) Prevention of abuse;
b.) Support for survivors or
c.) Story telling and healing for yourself;
We have thousands of these hand drawings now. When both monument figures are done we will place all of the "Creating A New Reality" papers inside the two monument figures. Their energy and messages will serve for centuries as a national visualization creating healing and prevention. protect children.
A large space inside the Monument figures allow for the placement of hand outlines and messages on pieces of paper. People are asked to draw an outline of their hand on a piece of paper (8.5 inches by 11 inches) and write a message on or around the hand outline.
An outline of your hand on a regular piece of paper would be a wonderful contribution towards this visualized intention. Also, ask some of your friends, colleagues or family to make an outline of their hand and send for inclusion as a collective visualization in the monument. Instructions and directions for the "Creating A New Reality" Visualization can be found directly below:
Children at schools, shopping malls, churches and community centres gave Dr. Irving outlines of hands with messages for a collective visualization
of our intention to protect children.
The hand outlines and messages on this web page will be included inside the "Reaching Out" Child Abuse Monument as part of a "National Visualization" healing for survivors and prevention of child abuse".
Will your hand be there along side them?
Child Abuse,
You don't have to worry.
It Stops Now.
Nikko, age 11
Your hand outline and message can join thousands of other Canadians who have contributed to making the "Art" of the Child Abuse Monument.
Don’t abuse your kids.
Stop and give a hand.
Kids have feelings.
Don’t because kids are
humans.
I wish for child abuse to stop. I wish for peace.
Aaron, age9
I love being a Kid.
I think child abuse should stop and stop NOW!!!
Kyle, age 8
Why should child abuse happen. We don't want it happening, no one does. So, Don't do it.
Clair, age 11
Keep the peace in your home, school and in your HEART.
Shanese, age 10
Through 2008 until the fall of 2011
we are still accepting hand outlines
for placement inside the "Reaching Out" Child Abuse Monument
To contribute a "Create a New Reality Visualization" for placement inside The "Reaching Out" Child Abuse Monument.
1. Draw an outline of your hand on a piece of 8 1/2 x 11 paper or the back of your printout;
2. On or around the outline of your hand, write or draw message of:
** a .) Prevention of abuse;
** b.) Support for survivors or
** c.) Story telling and healing for yourself;
3. Send your personal "Creating A New Reality" HandPrint for the Child Abuse Monument to:
"Reaching Out" Child Abuse Monument c/o
Dr. Michael C. Irving
274 Rhodes Ave.
Toronto, Ontario
Canada, M4L 3A3
You can also "Create A New Reality" with a donation. You do not need to give a donation to contribute a hand, though your donations are greatly appreciated.
Even donations of $10.00 or $20.00 will help to bring the monument to schools, community centres and events for gather contributions for the "Creating A New Reality" Vision.
Cheques can be made out to The Survivor Monument Project and sent to the address above or donate online directly below.
Make a donation with PayPal or
donate with a major credit card through PayPal
HandPrint Visualizations
The "HandPrints" of the "Creating A New Reality" Vision can be a simple outline of a hand with an initial or name. If you want you can include a message or images. They serve as a written visualization of our intention to provide healing support for survivors and protection of children. As an extraordinary collective coming together of positive visualizations inside the "Reaching Out" Monument the Hands will be a force for change today and tomorrow.
At schools across the country children drew an outline of their hand and wrote a message.
Messages written on outlines of hands were displayed in shopping malls from the Atlantic to the Pacific. What a powerful "National Visualization".
http://www.irvingstudios.com/child_abuse_survivor_monument/studio_visits.htm
STORIES OF FEAR- OF CHILD ABUSE- ALL AROUND THE WORLD
He's Watching
Mysterious nights went by, slowly unnumbered,
While her innocent body lay in an enchantingly deep slumber.
A monster in the dark lurked about
Conjuring up evil, so for her, there was no way out.
He cast his evil spell that fathomed her soul.
No one was she to tell, when from her innocence he stole.
There’s nowhere to run and nowhere to hide.
He’s sneering, waiting, and watching.
Sighs of the dawn suddenly appear
and the secrets of the night are profoundly made clear.
King of the giants, with all of their knowledge, could not foresee
the woe, the pain and the misery.
Poison still lingers in the air.
No need to worry, for he is still there.
He’s sneering, waiting, and watching.
The sun begins to shine through the shadowy veil.
Time heals all wounds and life prevails.
The evil of the night no longer hoovers over her breast.
She can sleep without crying and fear is put to rest.
Her beauty is more captivating with each passing day,
Yet, taunting memories still creep in her way.
He’s sneering, waiting, and watching.
Pulled out of dreamland by an overwhelming fright,
Make him stop! What’s that sound? I’m scared!
Who keeps lurking in the night?
Her trembling heart is silenced by the refuge that is near.
Was it a dream or is he still there?
Her conscience is seared!
She knows he is still there,
Sneering, waiting and watching,
Somewhere?
By: Connie Lee/Founder/President of the FACSA Foundation
Springhill, LA.
STATISTICS ON CHILD ABUSE
IN CANADA
A child dies every week in Canada at the hands of a care-giver.
(Statistics Canada, 1980-89)
70% of children who are victims of homicide are killed before the age of 5.
(Statistics Canada, 1980-89)
80% of abusers are known to their child victims.
(Dr. Harriett MacMillan et al., McMaster University, J.A.M.A., July, 1997)
More than 90% of child abuse cases are unreported.
(The Gallup Organization, 1995)
1 out of every 3 female children, and 1 out of every 5 male children in Canada will be sexually abused before they reach adulthood.
(The National Clearinghouse on Family Violence, 1994)
Children with disabilities are 10 times more vulnerable to sexual abuse than non-disabled children.
(National Committee to Prevent Child Abuse, 1996)
BEWARE THE NIGHT
Beware! Beware this street laced
with hungry dogs
Impatiently licking their lips
in shadowy doorways
I hear them gnawing on the fragment
bones of ignorance and innocence
I am destined to be savaged
by a rabid dog,
for I walk unseen
close in the shadows of tall
building and I must surly
meet such beasts
But again if I seek the bright
openness of the neon lights,
green eyes from the bordering
malevolent darkness wait
to jump out to render me
Be vigilant friend if passing
you hear, echoing
from the blackened ally way,
de-vouring snarl
-- Beware! ----
Alison
RESPONDING TO THE VOICE OF CHILDREN
Dear Dr. Irving,
In recent weeks you attended Downtown Alternative School to discuss your Child Abuse Survivor Monument Project with the students. My child was one of those students and the effect your project had on her has prompted me to write you and express my thanks. The children made paper hands to put inside the monument with comments expressing their thoughts and feelings on the issue of child abuse.
Late that evening, when my child was in bed, she turned to me and asked if I knew about child abuse. She then told me about the project. The events of the day had a strong impact on her. She could not understand how people could be cruel to children.
We talked at length. My daughter would like to see the monument stand for thousands of years to let future generations know that the people of our time had a caring side, that we were aware of the suffering and tried to do something about it.
Something as simple as the making of a paper hand opened up a door to awareness for my eleven-year old child. For this gift, I thank you.
Elizabeth Sellwood, Mother
May 24, 1999
HANDPRINT SQUARE-
Incest
Deep in my core lies hidden
the seed of life -
lost amidst the pain
of someone else’s choice.
Incestuous abuse
ravages my childhood,
steals my future,
destroys my SELF.
Agony courses
through my veins:
Burning, Freezing,
Struggling, Debilitating.
There is power in my choice -
I choose to feel the pain,
to grieve the loss, to be sad;
to Live, to BE.
Ruth Cook
RUTH'S HANDPRINT
http://www.irvingstudios.com/child_abuse_survivor_monument/poetry/706A2_poem7b.htm#706a2
Traps
Traps are set for tiny things
Hopeless, small, with no wings.
Escape is not a question here
Shadows, shadows everywhere.
Scream the words that hold you tight
Take a leap into the night.
Babette Healy
BABETTE'S HANDPRINT
http://www.irvingstudios.com/child_abuse_survivor_monument/poetry/706A3_poem8f.htm#706a3
Silk Ribbons
My chains of bondage forced, not wanted
I am alone waiting for the key.
Please mommy help me...nothing, no one
Only silk ribbons in the breeze cascading from
my hair...pretty, but silent...helpless
Time -- loss -- found
Courage!
From my soul...I’m afraid, need to tell
Told! I live...free
to soar.
Tracy Kloske
Thread of Hope
Oh my soul screams in silence
I weep...my loss is so deep
Torn, ripped and thrown away
I am forgotten...no place in your world
Drowned in an instant - a moment lost forever
Holding on --- letting go
Suspended by a thread of hope
From hell to here -- here to the future
Anticipation - unknown
Tracy Kloske
TRACY'S HANDPRINT
http://www.irvingstudios.com/child_abuse_survivor_monument/poetry/706A4_poem5b.htm#706a4
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ENSLAVED AND EXPLOITED: The Story of Sex Trafficking in Canada
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kothPyoyvDE
Published on Sep 26, 2012
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In October of 2006, my husband Jay and I attended a leadership conference in Atlanta, Georgia. Gary Haugen from International Justice Mission led one of the sessions, tackling the topic of modern day slavery. At the end of the session, 100 tickets to pre-screen a movie called TRADE were given out. Out of 10,000 people that were in attendance, our group ended up with 6 tickets.
Little did we know our lives were about to change.
The film served as a rude awakening that human beings were being bought and sold all around the world. Sex trafficking was a booming business, and slavery was far from abolished. I grew up in Africa where I had witnessed poverty and injustice in various forms, but a multi-billion dollar industry of rape for pay struck a chord with me unlike anything else ever had. As a woman, I could not imagine a worse fate. Jay was filled with anger and deep sadness that men all over the world funded and fuelled such a sick and abusive trade.
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So we decided to do something about it.
We came back home to Ontario and started an awareness campaign about sex trafficking. Along with an amazing group of friends we organized banquets, art shows, concerts, and university events to spread the word. In 2009, we received a small grant from the Millennium Scholarship Foundation and drove 11,000 km across the country to make a documentary about sex trafficking in Canada.
Despite not having any experience with film making, Enslaved and Exploited: The Story of Sex Trafficking in Canada has been used as a resource by students, Members of Parliament, Border Service Officers, crisis shelter workers, professors, church leaders, and abolitionists.
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Along with this, the Hope for the Sold blog reaches thousands of readers monthly and has served as a platform to discuss important issues surrounding sexual exploitation and to mobilize people for the cause.
In 2011 Hope for the Sold partnered with International Teams, giving HFTS organizational framework and the ability to provide tax receipts (find out more below). There is a second film on the horizon, which you can learn more about and support here!
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HORRIFIC PAEDOPHILE AND CHILD ABUSE- mind rape, physical torture and sex assault of children and youth who happened 2 be black- life what sheeeeety 4 white kids who were considered trashcan ready back then.... but this is just evil (PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND Just settled with Orphanage and USA is dealing with their messes as is many in free world)
THE PROMISE IS- not one NDP (outside of Dexter- ya gotta love Dexter) will get elected if they don't step up- Liberals and Tories 4 ready- and they were the folks in power after WWII and onwards... COME ON!!!
CHILD ABUSE- mind rape-physical torture-sexual assault
Child Abuse Commercial half animated
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osc8vuronhg
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PETER MACKAY IS NOW IN JUSTICE- HALLELUJAH
Jeff Buckley - Hallelujah
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8AWFf7EAc4
So glad to see peter mackay has justice- it's his background and he's good at it... and level headed... and realistic.... there must be some kind of rehabilitation and there must be better protection and justice 4 victims.... especially children and youth from paedophiles and sex trafficking...
Cabinet shakeup may shift law-and-order agenda into cruise control
University of Ottawa criminology Prof. Irvin Waller said MacKay will be called upon to lead the charge on the new victims’ bill of rights, while Blaney will have to stick-handle efforts to rein in policing costs — an initiative Toews launched early this year.
He described MacKay, who once practiced criminal and family law, as an "interesting appointment" given his "centre right" rather than "extreme right" leaning. Waller said he’s "hopeful" the new minister will put forward a "world-class bill" that’s really focused on victims rather than "punishment for the most extreme cases, which is what Nicholson has really been doing."
New Defence Minister Rob Nicholson and new Justice Minister Peter MacKay during swearing-in ceremony July 15. Photo: Sean Kilpatrick/THE CANADIAN PRESS
Tobi Cohen
Published: July 16, 2013, 4:46 pm
OTTAWA — The Harper government has pumped out more justice and public safety policy than, perhaps, any other area since taking office, but a major shakeup this week in those portfolios suggests the law-and-order agenda may shift into cruise control heading into the 2015 election.
And if the medium is indeed the message, it also signals a notable shift in personality as sympathetic former Progressive Conservative leader Peter MacKay takes over Justice from the tightly scripted Rob Nicholson, while fly-below-the-radar former Veterans Affairs Minister Steven Blaney assumes the Public Safety portfolio, replacing the ever confrontational Vic Toews who announced his retirement from federal politics.
%name Cabinet shakeup may shift law and order agenda into cruise control
Fresh faces in Stephen Harper's cabinet
"Toews was like a bull in a china shop and wore his colours on his sleeve," University of Ottawa political historian Michael Behiels said of the former minister, who once proclaimed that those who didn’t like his now-defunct Internet surveillance bill were effectively siding with child pornographers.
Behiels suggested Blaney is "not driven by the same kind of moralistic zeal" and would be able to deliver the same government message with "a different tone."
As for the government’s tough-on-crime agenda, Carleton University political science Prof. Bruce Hicks said much of it was "front loaded" to appeal to the Conservative base that voted the party into power — even if experts argue certain controversial changes like mandatory minimum sentences won’t have a serious impact on crime rates or recidivism.
The government’s Safe Streets and Communities Act passed early last year along with a bill to scrap the long-gun registry, while legislation to improve RCMP accountability and address harassment in the police force became law last month.
"It’s not clear that there is much more to do," Hicks said, suggesting that could be good for MacKay, a "more traditional Progressive Conservative-Liberal style politician" who tends to "trust" the bureaucrats who ultimately run his department.
"It’s really running a big department that is a service department. You don’t need a strong partisan advocate at the top. You need a good manager who will ensure the department runs smoothly."
With Nicholson at the helm of Justice for more than six years and Toews in charge of Public Safety for more than three, it appears much of the heavy lifting has indeed been done and that the goal now is to steer the course ahead of the next election.
That said, there remain a few areas left to tackle.
University of Ottawa criminology Prof. Irvin Waller said MacKay will be called upon to lead the charge on the new victims’ bill of rights, while Blaney will have to stick-handle efforts to rein in policing costs — an initiative Toews launched early this year.
He described MacKay, who once practiced criminal and family law, as an "interesting appointment" given his "centre right" rather than "extreme right" leaning. Waller said he’s "hopeful" the new minister will put forward a "world-class bill" that’s really focused on victims rather than "punishment for the most extreme cases, which is what Nicholson has really been doing."
He described Blaney, a civil engineer, as a bit more of an "unknown" but suggested there’s an opportunity for him to make a name for himself, especially in his native Quebec, which has been particularly critical of the Tories’ law-and-order agenda.
As many of the federal tough-on-crime changes ultimately affect operations and costs at the provincial level, it’ll also be incumbent on both to improve cooperation with the provinces, said Paul Thomas, a professor emeritus in political science at University of Manitoba .
Meanwhile, Tim Smith, a spokesman for the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police, said his organization will be pushing for a modified Internet surveillance law that would require providers to preserve information like emails and text messages while law enforcement obtains a warrant.
Police will also press the government to introduce legislation that would allow them to obtain DNA from a suspect at the time of arrest, Smith said, adding that "fingerprints were 20th century."
On the immigration front, the departure of Jason Kenney after five years marked another big change in a priority portfolio that may also be destined for the back burner.
Vancouver-based immigration lawyer Richard Kurland said Kenney has left little for successor Chris Alexander to do on immigration, but that the citizenship file is due for an overhaul. He expects the former diplomat will have plenty of work tackling backlogs in processing as well as citizenship and permanent residency fraud. He also expects him to improve immigration security by working more co-operatively with countries like China.
tcohen@postmedia.com
http://o.canada.com/2013/07/16/cabinet-shakeup-may-shift-law-and-order-agenda-into-cruise-control/
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Canada’s government vows clampdown on child-sex tourism
The federal government has vowed to stop sex offenders from travelling abroad to abuse children in the wake of a Star series that exposed how easily Canadian sex tourists can slip through the cracks.
By: Robert Cribb Foreign, Investigations Jennifer Quinn, Published on Mon Mar 18 2013
The federal government has vowed to stop sex offenders from travelling abroad to abuse children in the wake of a Star series that exposed how easily Canadian sex tourists can slip through the cracks — and across borders.
During question period Monday, Public Safety Minister Vic Toews said the government was concerned about Canadians who leave the country to prey on vulnerable children and noted that some steps had already been taken to combat the offence.
"It is clear that more needs to be done to protect children from the heinous crime of sexual abuse," Toews told the House of Commons. "Our government is committed to protecting children in Canada and abroad from sex offenders. We intend to take further action against international sex tourism and, indeed, we welcome the support of the Toronto Star."
Toews did not elaborate on what steps the government could take. But the Star series revealed a number of loopholes in the system designed to monitor sex offenders, making it relatively easy for them to travel abroad to exploit children.
Supervision of their travel is lax. Front-line border officials do not have easy access to police databases or the sex offenders registry. There is no integrated system for tracking and monitoring sex offenders. And the process of laying sex tourism charges is an arduous one for police.
More than 200 Canadians have been convicted abroad of sexual crimes against children. But at home — under a 1997 law that makes it possible to prosecute Canadians for crimes committed outside the country’s borders — there have been only five known convictions for child-sex tourism.
Last week, Toronto police announced they had laid child-sex tourism charges for the first time. The accused, 78-year-old James McTurk, is to appear in court Thursday on a dozen counts. It is alleged McTurk, already convicted twice on child pornography charges related to Cuban girls, travelled to the island dozens of times to abuse children — some of whom, police alleged, may have been as young as 4.
UNICEF has estimated there are up to two million children involved in the sex trade globally, and Cuba is emerging as a destination of choice for Canadian men seeking sex with young people.
A confidential RCMP document cites Cuba as a top destination in the Americas for Canadian sex tourists, and says the issue of "travelling child-sex offenders is likely greater than previously thought." The 2011 report, obtained through Access to Information, acknowledges "a more determined, yet strategic, response by Canadian police could uncover many more Canadian offenders committing sexual offences abroad."
Beefing up the country’s police response to travelling sex offenders, the report concludes, will take "additional resources, more effective co-ordination and collaboration between Canadian law enforcement and foreign police, and better reporting mechanisms for Canadians who witness suspicious behaviour abroad."
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IDLE NO MORE CANADA- Shania Twain was adopted by her stepfather Ojibway Jerry Twain and grew up on the reserve as non-status indian.... Shania always said Jerry Twain (and she adored Grandpa Twain) treated respectfully and loved Shania's mother Sharon so much..
..... but Shania said the enormous abuse among the Reservations should shame all of Canada.... and men need counselling and respect as much as women...
ONE BILLION RISING- breaking the chains
Shania Twain - Black Eyes, Blue Tears - Live!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26Fd5Q2-VC0
Domnoidragon 1 year ago
Every time we watch this my dad points out how amazing it is that they sing and play exactly like they do on the CD and how talented Shania and her band is :)
And.. THE FACT IS... CHRIS BROWN PAID HIS DUES THROUGH THE LAW.... and unfortunately now has the reputation of being a coward- real men don't hit women or kids... period..imho- JOHN LENNON HAD A SERIOUS HISTORY OF ABUSING WOMEN... the following is a great article..
The difficulty of discussing violence, race and Brown
EL JONES
Editor’s Note
El Jones is poet laureate for the Halifax Regional Municipality. She teaches women’s studies at Acadia University and in the African Canadian transition program at Nova Scotia Community College.
Shortly after Chris Brown was accused and convicted of violence against Rihanna, I wrote a poem that included the line "Britney gets hit one more time, but Rihanna needs stitches."
The poem addressed the silencing of violence against black women. I personally experienced the backlash that can occur when trying to sp eak honestly and openly about difficult issues surrounding abuse and race.
I twice received angry and even threatening messages from men after performing this poem. They were upset with the idea that a woman’s race impacts her likelihood both of being victimized and of having her complaint ignored. I experienced then the reality that speaking up on these issues can be uncomfortable and even dangerous.
This week, I was asked to comment on CBC about the controversy around the Chris Brown concert in Halifax.
As a teacher and advocate, I have worked with women and spoken out against violence against women.
As a teacher and advocate, I have also worked with men convicted o f violent crimes. I therefore felt it was extremely important that Halifax have conversations about the concert that would help us address violence, support victims in healing, and also move toward solutions to ending abuse in our communities.
I believe it is very important that victims of violence be supported in speaking out, and that they not be urged to "get over it" or "move on." Shaming and blaming of victims of violence is very common even by "well meaning" loved ones and family.
At the same time, I also believe that we must have strategies to work with men convicted of violence. We know that women often return to men who have abused them; it is therefore important that we invest in counselling men, in addressing violent ideas o f masculinity, in challenging abusers to take responsibility and be held accountable, and also to believe they can do the serious work of change and recovery.
It is important for black women to be part of this conversation and to be advocating for women in our own communities to receive appropriate counselling and other services to confront and heal from abuse.
We also face the necessity of working with men in our own communities to help them heal from violence through transformative justice approaches.
So I expressed my view that we needed to talk ab out domestic violence, and we als o needed to address the racial aspects around the reaction to Chris Brown.
As a tattooed, rap/R&B singer who embodies for many the "thug" lifestyle, it is easy to see Chris Brown as the face of abuse. As a threatening black man, we may feel more comfortable identifying his behaviour as dangerous than we do John Lennon’s, despite his history of abuse. But the truth is that abuse happens in households of all racial, class, education and social backgrounds.
I asked us to consider how much the image of Chris Brown as "thug rapper" made it easier to label him as an unrepentant abuser than other artists who are also guilty of the same crime.
I spoke about how Brown himself is a victim of abuse and how imp or tant it is for our communities to work to break cycles of violence.
Angela Davis points out that we are imprisoning more men than ever for domestic violence, but rates of domestic violence are not going down.
This is why communities must do the hard work of addressing how to work with abusers as they return to our households and neighbourhoods.
While Chris Brown can be boycotted, these men are still in our homes. Although I sp oke about how complex this conversation was, the fact that I addressed the ways race plays into how we think about this case was received in some places as controversial or shocking.
I do not believe that talking about race has to be forbidden or too uncomfortable. Too often, dialogue is reduced to either an accusation of racism, or a charge of "pulling the race card."
People in Halifax are capable of having honest conversations from differing viewpoints about violence, about supporting victims, and about how race affects the ways we respond to victims and perpetrators. We need also to speak with youth about violence and consent and educate them about media messages glorifying violent behaviour.
Too often, women of colour, in particular indigenous and black women, are not included in conversations about policies. We do not sit on the boards of domestic violence organizations or shelters and we are not in government.
Some people might look at the Chris Brown case and say "this is about domestic violence, not race," but for women of colour, we cannot make that separation.
We need to talk about why women of colour are victimized, and we need to talk ab out our representation of black masculinity as threatening, the rates of incarceration and criminalizing of black men, the idea that black men are pathologically violent, and how the exp erience o f oppression all play into why abuse happ ens in our communities and how we can heal from it .
I support the right of all victims and advocates to speak out, to seek justice, to be angry and to demand accountability about abuse. I understand why people are protesting this concert and why it is a deeply emotional issue.
But I also hope after the controversy dies down that we, as a community, are willing to continue to have the difficult conversations we need to have.
I hope that we support the victims of the Nova Scotia Home for Colored Children in their quest for justice — another case that reminds us of the necessity of addressing race and violence. I believe healing and progress are possible, if we as a community are willing to do the work to acknowledge complex realities and to not silence issues that may make us uncomfortable.
We know that women often return to men who have abused them; it is therefore important that we invest in counselling men . . . .
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Banning Brown would just make him a martyr
GAIL LETHBRIDGE
glethbridge@herald.ca @giftedtypist
Gail Lethbridge is a freelance writer in Halifax
Banning Brown would just make him a mar tyr
Du des who mess up their ladies are not cool. Dudes who bite, hit, choke, bruise and brutalize their ladies deserve an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. Is that being uncharitable? No, actually. It’s biblical.
These dudes should be called out, put down, belittled, protested, petitioned, boycotted and unsponsored when they come to town .
They shou ld b e named, shamed, defamed and defined for what they are: effin’ arses — musical talent, Grammy Awards and celebrity be damned.
But — as hard as it is for me to say this — dudes like Chris Brown should not be banned from performing b ecaus e to ban him would be to martyr him on the high altar of freedom or some other almighty right that exceeds the right of a woman to be protected from violence.
News of the sponsorship pullout from the concert featuring Rihanna- beater Brown has gone international. Heck, it even put Dartmouth on the ultra cool TMZ website.
As we know, Brown beat his lady to a pulp in 2009. Pictures of pop star Rihanna after the assault reveal a swollen face marked with cuts, contusions and bruis es. Brown pleaded guilty and was given five years of probation and 1,200 hours of community service.
That probation was revoked this week in light o f a hit-and-run incident in May involving Brown.
The addition of Brown to the Aug. 31 Energy Rush concert lineup and pu llout by major sp onsors have created a tempest. Mayor Mike Savage says it makes him "sick" to think of someone like Brown playing in his city. A petition against Brown has drawn more than 14,500 signatures.
But there are fans too, many of them — here and all over the world — who will and do defend the man and his actions. Sho ckingly, many of those defenders are young women who have stated that they would like to be beaten by Brown.
Shortly after the Rihanna beating , Twitter lit up with with 140-character missives like this one from @steph_freddd32: "I don’t know why Rihanna complained. Chris Brown could beat me anytime he wanted to."
Ah, feminism, anyone? Girl power? Self-respect?
I’m sure @steph_freddd32 and all the other bright young tweeters stating their wish to be beaten by Brown would feel differently if they were on the receiving end of his fist slamming into their eye socket or through their front teeth .
Broken bones, black eyes and bloodied mouths are not sexy or s ophisticated.
But such is the nature of celebrity worship and provocateurs. It’s all about the attention. And there is a school of public relations that says it doesn’t matter what they’re saying as long as they are talking about you.
There is some truth in that. Chris Brown is now more famous for violence against R ihanna than for his music. Whether that is good PR or good punishment is hard to say.
This isn’t the first time Brown has faced protest. He withdrew from a concert in Guyana after local protests. In Stockholm, Sweden, posters of Rihanna’s beaten-up face appeared before a Brown concert. Last year in London, Brown’s new album Fortune featured stickers with a warning, "Do not buy this album . This man beats women."
Brown has been forced to take domestic violence counselling. He is als o working with a domestic violence charity. Whether he has shown true contrition or if he’s simply going through the motions is another qu estion .
If he were truly sorry for his actions, he would star t his own foundation on domestic violence or donate a percentage of proceeds to organizations that deal with this problem .
In the meantime, people who oppose Brown can act democratically by refusing to purchase tickets and donating the money to organizations that support women in crisis.
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Why there should be no Bluenose welcome for Chris Brown - REHTAEH PARSONS- EVERYBODY'S DAUGHTER.....
this ain't America... but we must also consider that rehabilitation is possible and if u serve ur justice by law... u should be given 2nd chances.... after all no one said much about John Lennon, or PAEDOPHILE Roman Polanski
July 16, 2013 - 4:04pm HILARY BEAUMONT
http://thechronicleherald.ca/opinion/1142398-why-there-should-be-no-bluenose-welcome-for-brown
R&B singer Chris Brown and his attorney, Mark Geragos, appear in Los Angeles Superior Court on Monday. A judge has revoked Brown’s probation after reading details of an alleged hit-and-run accident and his subsequent behaviour, but the singer was not jailed. He has been on felony probation in the 2009 beating of former girlfriend, Rihanna. (ALBERTO E. RODRIGUEZ/AP)
Renowned woman-beater and musician Chris Brown is coming to Halifax. On Friday, a promotions group announced Brown is headlining a show at Alderney Landing at the end of August.
Some Haligonians are already calling the show problematic.
As one Facebook user, Nichole Fougere, wrote on the event wall: "The town that got huge publicity for gross negligence in (a) rape case will (now) be host to one of the most famous women-beaters in music."
Another commenter, Harrison Bennett, wrote: "Will Chris Brown be playing the hits or doling them out?"
Brown mercilessly beat up his girlfriend Rihanna.
Halifax should not welcome this misogynist. His presence is a threat to a local conversation about violence against women — a conversation that’s still in its infancy.
There’s no doubt the show will influence Halifax. One of the largest venues in the city, Alderney Landing, "exists to enhance the recreational and cultural life of the region" and Coun. Gloria McCluskey sits on the non-profit society’s board.
Concert promoter Drop Entertainment has hired the venue, and inviting and compensating Brown to play sends the message it’s OK that he beat up his girlfriend. It sends the message society should forgive, and celebrate, those who are violent. And it sends the message that if someone is (purportedly) talented enough, such violence is excusable.
It’s an all-ages event. Young people as well as adults will receive these messages.
As Fougere pointed out, Halifax is still recovering from the public unravelling of an alleged rape case. It blew up in local media, circled the globe and recently graced the front page of People Magazine. It’s no secret.
It’s no secret that a deceased young woman’s family believes her peers shamed her after she was allegedly raped with a quantity of alcohol in her system.
It’s no secret the story triggered a wave of questions about whether young people know what consent means, whether they’re learning enough about it in school and whether alcohol and drugs facilitate sexual assault.
We asked questions about bullying, slut-shaming and harassment. We wondered at the vastness of the problem if only an estimated eight per cent of sexual assaults are ever reported.
We heard answers: Women disproportionately experience violence, sexual assault and harassment, on the street and at home, and men are most often the perpetrators.
We discussed why these incidents are rarely reported, and why women don’t speak out. We condemned those who harass, rape and beat women — or anyone, for that matter. Through public discourse, we increased the visibility of the problem and decided as a city that such actions were deplorable and not to be tolerated.
We condemned that violence as we should condemn Brown’s.
Still, some believe we should forgive Brown and move on. As Gerri Elliott wrote on the event wall: "He’s a talented person who made mistakes in his personal life. It isn’t for us to judge. The past is the past. It should be left there."
Forgive me for dredging up the past.
In 1962, The Crystals recorded the song He Hit Me (And It Felt Like A Kiss). The song title referred to pop singer Little Eva, who was regularly beaten by her boyfriend. When the song’s composers, Gerry Goffin and Carole King, asked why she stayed with him, she said he was violent because he loved her.
The truth is, half a century later, and despite the high-profile conversation triggered by Rehtaeh Parsons’ death, we still live in an age of violence against women.
We should remember Brown’s actions because they’re symptoms of a deeply ingrained societal problem — a problem that we can’t fix until we recognize how serious it really is.
Hilary Beaumont is a Halifax-based freelance writer.
THEN LET'S REMEMBER LIFE WITH BILLY- THAT NIGHTMARE WOMEN HAVE BEEN FIGHTING 4 YERS- wanna get ur rocks off- vomit.... this shld do 4 the perverts...of pain
photo
http://janestafford.blogspot.ca/2007/12/janes-life-with-billy-1.html
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VOICE OF THE PEOPLE- NOVA SCOTIA HOME 4 COLOURED CHILDREN
Hey we were poor white kids.... and foster kids never ate better than the animals... and we never got invited to sit at the fancy table.... or sit in the high pews at church.... or own a new piece of clothing.... it was rough 4 all - especially living through the ruins of victory after WWII and 10 million people killed 2 win a friggin war...
TELL YA.... NDP WILL LOSE EVERYSEAT UNLESS THEY CALL AN INQUIRY AND FIX AND HEAL THE NOVA SCOTIA HOME 4 COLOURED CHILDREN- 1921...... systemic black on black child abuse is rampant here...
READER’S CORNER
Who in a position of authority stands up for underprivileged?
I am almost 78, and thought I had heard all I needed to know about the abusive way our aboriginal children were treated.
But nothing prepared me for what I saw in the media, about these dear, innocent children being used for nutritional experiments.
I am sure the things that were done were illegal, but this did not stop the people in charge from allowing these children to be used as guinea pigs.
Disgusting doesn’t even cover it. It’s worse than that. I have to tell you I felt like throwing up.
I am white — not that it should matter — but we have allowed all kinds of indignities to be imposed on the children at the Nova Scotia Home for Colored children as well as the aboriginal children, as close by as Shubenacadie.
And nobody really seems to understand just how they must feel. Is it any bloody wonder they feel like they can’t trust us? I know this abuse happened years ago, but that doesn’t make the seriousness of these actions any less.
How much more has happened that just hasn’t been brought to the public’s attention yet? I am almost afraid to even wonder about it. Shame on all of you who allowed these things to happen, shame on all of you who have done nothing about it.
Oh, our government made an apology — a lot of good that does to s omeone who had their childhood destroyed by the people they should have been able to trust.
We live in a society that is getting more corrupt every day. Unfortunately, our politicians (no matter what party) have no backbone to stand up and fight for the underprivileged. They are always scared of stepping on the toes of someone in authority.
I say a lot of people — especially the ones who sto o d by and allowed these abusive situations to happen — should have had more than their toes stepped on.
I can’t be the only person who feels this way. And to all those out there looking for votes: Give your heads a shake, take a stand, make a difference.
Jean Edwards, Lower Sackville
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This is Peter MacKay's background and what he's good at.... laws need 2 be changed more fairly 4 victims especially 4 little kids and youth.... $$$ monsters need caging better... praying 4 the victims
Peter MacKay ‘last glimmer of hope’ for Ernest MacIntosh inquiry: complainants
http://metronews.ca/news/halifax/740024/peter-mackay-last-glimmer-of-hope-for-ernest-macintosh-inquiry-complainant/
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CHILD SAFETY ON THE NET
Funmoods' Online Safety Kit - Little Red Riding Mood
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGr_KFiCX4s
Uploaded on Mar 29, 2011
Watch Little Red Riding Mood to learn about safe Facebook surfing.
Brought to you by Funmoods, endorsing responsible online surfing.
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COMMENT:
We watched this? this year in grade 6! Our gym teacher teaches us the online safety stuff too!
COMMENT:
I'm year 9 and I think it's funny. My mom downloaded it and I had nothing to? watch, So I just watched this. Good video, I loved it. I'll see your other vids, and maybe even sub.
AND..
Internet Safety for Kids K-3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89eCHtFs0XM
Uploaded on May 17, 2011
Internet safety for kids is a topic getting much attention because children are being exposed to the Internet at a younger and younger age. IUP Communications Media professor Erick Lauber and his student production team at IUP's Digital Media Institute recently produced this video on Internet safety for kids for the Indiana Area School District. It is currently used as part of the in-school training for students in kindergarten through third grade.
For this video, Lauber received the Broadcast Education Association's Award of Excellence in the Educational and Instructional Video category.
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HUNTING PAEDOPHILES..... Stand up Canada- Stand up World- ONE BILLION RISING- BREAKING THE CHAINS.... OF ABUSE-
Sex absue of our children.... our kids matter Canada- US-UK-Aussies-NZ-Globally...
Police have lost track of almost 140 paedophiles, sparking fears many may have left the country, it has been revealed.
Government figures show a total of 137 child sex offenders have disappeared after signing the sex offenders’ register, which requires them to inform police of their whereabouts or any changes to their details.
The shock figures show the Metropolitan Police has lost by far the most paedophiles, with 40 on the run from the authorities in London.
The force with the second highest number on the run is Greater Manchester, which has lost seven, while Sussex has lost six, according to The Mirror.
The West Midlands, Derbyshire, Kent and Lancashire all have five child sex offenders they are looking for.
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HERE IS A LIST OF 100 PAEDOPHILE COUNCILLORS OR UK POLITICAL PARTY AFFILIATED EMBERS THEY ARE AMONG THE PEOPLE WHO HELP RUN OUR COUNTRY ! ?THE ELM GUEST HOUSE - LIST OF VISITORS curtosy of Mary Moss
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1.ilegality
2.Bishop's Travels
3.cigpapers
4.adeybob's Blog
5.ukgovernmentwatch
6.Tell About Abuse
7.CSA Awareness Month
8.Not Down Or Out
9.INCUBUS: Incendiary rants of an apostate anarchist
10.Evil Sits at the Dinner Table
11.What Can I Do About It?
12.Join The Dots Campaign
13.CBS Houston
14.Sara Treadwell
15.NallelyBarbosa
16.CBS Minnesota
17.Welshtabby.
18.Christian Defence League (CDL)
19.newnederland
20.Together We Heal
21.themadlands
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24.Raising 5 Kids With Disabilities and Remaining Sane Blog
25.Love, Life, and Relationships: Overcoming Emotional and Child Sexual Abuse
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Air Force Brought Abusers to Child Sex Orgies
Alice Day is April 25th, WATCH YOUR CHILDREN
"Paedophilia has become the last remaining moral benchmark in an uncertain age"
FOR A CHILD, SEXUAL ABUSE IS A LIFE SENTANCE!! WHY NOT FOR THE ABUSERReticence and Concealment – Revealed….by Doreen Gerrard
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LOOK INTO THEIR EYES
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Paedophile net: Did Operation Ore change British society?
Paedophilia: bringing dark desires to light by John Henley (the Guardian)
Police change approach to missing children cases
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Secret Courts open in UK within weeks #Paedobritain
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SO ASHAMED OF MYSELF
The Catholic Church needs to separate the issue of sexual orientation and abuse
THE ELM GUEST HOUSE – LIST OF VISITORS curtosy of Mary Moss
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THIS IS WHAT IT'S LIKE ON THE RECIVING END OF A PAEDOPHILE ABUSED KID- TEEN/YOUTH... let's step up Canada, world...
ONE BILLION RISING- break the chains/ PAEDOPHILE HUNTING- Movie -TRUST with Clive Owen will break your heart- FAMILIES of abused internet paedophiles- after, coping, repairing their lives
http://nova0000scotia.blogspot.ca/2013/07/one-billion-rising-break-chains.html
twitterONE BILLION RISING-PAEDOPHILE HUNTING- Movie -TRUST with Clive Owen will break your heart -life after ur childattack
TRUST- 959,450 views
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zawGJvWsaaM
I Do Not Own Anything.
(2010 Drama/Thriller)
Director: David Schwimmer
Starring: Clive Owen, Catherine Keener, Liana Liberato
A suburban family is torn apart when fourteen-year-old Annie meets her first boyfriend online. After communicating via online chat and phone, Annie discovers her friend is not who he originally claimed to be. Shocked into disbelief, her parents are shattered by their daughter's actions and struggle to support her as she comes to terms with what has happened to her once innocent life.
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TRUST - the movie from the eyes of the family living the nightmare of INTERNET PAEDOPHILES- AND DESCTUCTION OF FAMILIES.... Our Kids Matter
TRUST-
Clive Owen Talks Trust and Facebook, Becoming an Onscreen Family
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZXcjehx-rU
In Trust, Clive Owen and Liana Liberato play a father and daughter struggling to mend their relationship after an online predator threatens to tear their family apart. We sat down with the actors at their recent Beverly Hills press day to talk about the weighty subject matter, building a believable parent-child relationship, and their upcoming projects. Clive was still sporting the mustache for his role as literary icon Ernest Hemingway in Hemingway and Gellhorn. The HBO movie tells the story of the writer's relationship with war correspondent Martha Gellhorn, played by Nicole Kidman, and Liana also talked about working with the Oscar-winning actress in Trespass. Plus, check back soon to see our chat with director David Schwimmer and catch Trust in theaters this Friday, April 1.
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TRUST movie interviews w/ Clive Owen David Schwimmer Liana Liberato
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bi9iixCUTPM
Fushion Magazine interviews Clive Owen, David Schwimmer & Liana Liberato about their new movie TRUST.
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like MikamiPro said. makes you so mad, emotion inducing film.
just see it and you'll know.
P.S i wanted clive owen? to kill that mofo!
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TRUST- movie synopsis
Trust (2010 film)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Trust is a 2010 American psychological thriller film directed by David Schwimmer and based on a screenplay by Andy Bellin and Robert Festinger. It stars Clive Owen, Catherine Keener, and Liana Liberato.[2]
The film is about a teenage girl who becomes a victim of sexual abuse when she befriends a man on the Internet.
14-year-old Annie Cameron lives in suburban Chicago. She enjoys a healthy relationship with her family. On her birthday, her parents give her a laptop. She is rather naive in respect of some of the ways in which the Internet can be harmful. When she meets Charlie in an online chat room, she establishes an instant connection with him. At first, Charlie states that he is sixteen years old. Over time, as the two bond by sending phone text messages and through instant messaging, he bumps his age up to 20, then 25. Annie is taken aback at first, but then dismisses these concerns. Her parents are not aware of her infatuation, or the threat Charlie poses, and Annie even deceives them a bit, as she continues the on-line relationship, not wanting to end things with him under the belief that they are in love. After two months of communicating electronically, Charlie invites Annie to meet him at the mall.
While her parents are dropping off Annie's brother at college, Annie goes to the mall and awaits her first face-to-face meeting with Charlie. When he appears, she discovers he is significantly older than he presented himself to be, appearing to be in his late thirties or early forties. Annie is upset about his having lied about his age, but still spends time with him after he compliments and sweet-talks her and convinces her to ignore their age difference, even to the point of driving to a motel with him. Despite the fact that Annie is a minor, Charlie has her model lingerie and proceeds to inappropriately touch her. He soon coaxes her onto the bed and coerces her into having sex with him. He secretly films what he does to Annie.
Back at home Annie is quiet and disengaged. At school, Brittany, Annie's best friend, deduces Annie had sex, as she had seen her and Charlie that day at the mall. Brittany is concerned about this and notifies the school administration. The police arrive and depart with Annie, drawing unwanted attention from fellow students at her high school. These actions initiate an FBI investigation. The FBI have Annie contact Charlie, in an attempt to identify him, but he figures out the ruse and breaks off contact with her before the FBI can trace his location. Annie's father, Will, starts his own obsessive investigation, taking up the services of a private investigation firm in New Jersey. He even steals a collection of his daughter's chat conversations with Charlie from the FBI. His relationship with his daughter and his wife Lynn begins to deteriorate, and he questions his work at an advertising firm, which uses provocative advertisements involving teenagers. When Will tells his boss that his daughter was sexually assaulted, his boss is shocked but becomes dismissive when told that Annie knew the man and went willingly to the hotel, saying "it could have been a lot worse."
Annie, still believing Charlie loves her, is angry at Brittany for not keeping her relationship with Charlie secret, and she is livid at her parents for making her betray him and for forbidding her to contact him anymore. A few more days pass, and although Charlie has not been identified, DNA evidence proves he has behaved in the same manner with other young girls who reported it to the police. Annie is devastated because she thought she was special, the only girl in his life. After seeing pictures of the other girls, she feels betrayed, and she finally admits to herself, and to her hospital counselor, that she was raped.
The next day, Annie tries to move on with her life by participating in her school's volleyball game. There, Will sees a man in the crowd. Not only is he taking pictures of the girls in the game, but he also looks surprisingly similar to one of the local registered sex offenders a private New Jersey investigation firm provided him pictures with. An irate Will interrupts the game in order to confront the man. He beats him to the floor, causing a scene. A girl in the game reveals the man to be her father. The assaulted man chooses not to press charges for fear that he will be outed to his family. Will apologizes to the man but Annie feels humiliated. At home, Annie confronts her father. Annie insists that she wants to move on with her life. She believes that Will does not fully appreciate her position as the victim.
Annie hears from Brittany about a website in which people are belittling the fact that she was raped and posting photo manipulations of her in pornographic poses. This pushes her over the edge. At home, she locks herself in the bathroom and attempts suicide by overdosing with pills, but is saved by her father. Brittany spends the night to keep her company, mending their broken friendship.
Annie wakes up early the next day, and discovers her father sitting outside in the freezing cold weather. She approaches him, asking if he is all right. Will begins talking to her, reminiscing about the first time she ever got in the family pool, and how brave she was to do it. He tells her that she used to be confident, and nothing frightened her. He admired the way she loved the world and trusted the people in it and how now all that has changed. He weeps and pleads for forgiveness even though he believes he does not deserve it. Annie starts to cry and then embraces him.
As the credits roll, a home video reveals Charlie to be a high school physics teacher named Graham Weston, a married father with a young son.
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AND... 4 REHTAEH.... Courtney,Jenna, Amanda, Jamie from Ottawa -
#OpJustice4Rehtaeh Statement Anonymous / Rehtaeh Parsons
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WHEN CONNECTIONS MATTER- CHILD PAEDOPHILES- CHILD ABUSE- (hey...kids can't vote)
HOW'S THIS 4 JUDGE PROTECTING PAEDOPHILE BECAUSE..... HE'S RICH
No jail for Toronto transit honcho who impregnated foster child
By Michele Mandel, QMI Agency
Howard Smith.
Teen impregnated by foster dad failed by Children's Aid
TORONTO -- For his victim, it had all come down to this day -- a judge was finally going to sentence former TTC honcho Howard Smith for stealing her virginity and impregnating her in 1978 when she was his foster child and just 15 years old.
After all her years of suffering in silence, it was time for retribution. She wanted to see him in handcuffs; she wanted to see her abuser being led off to jail. But as she rocked herself in the front row of the downtown courtroom, she soon discerned that it was not to be.
Not when Justice Jane Kelly began to sing Smith's praises, of how the 61-year-old executive has lived an exemplary life except for his "most irresponsible conduct." Irresponsible? He took advantage of a fragile child who had been bounced around 22 different foster homes before coming to live with his family.
Smith was sentenced to two years of house arrest with strict condition that he can only leave home for medical appointments and four hours each Saturday afternoon to attend to personal errands. Kelly also imposed three years of probation where he must perform 360 hours of community service.
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CANADA POLITICANS- all parties must make Canadians matter- intead of making us feel 3foot tall -classified -SHAME ON YA http://nova0000scotia.blogspot.ca/2013/07/canada-p
The truth is... communities make our country... NOT POLITICIANS- LOOK AT THE WORLD- there's your prrof... thank goodness Canada is doing better than most... even with a vicious liberal at all costs media and bullshit and beans by all parties; who when elected, f**k us over - every time... no matter who wins.... that's why election day in Canada is totally up 4 grabs and golden voters paid dearly and realize the vote is the greatest privilege we have in the free world...imho
CANADA POLITICANS- all stripes r betraying the people who elected them- tory, NDP, Lib, (even Bloc trying 2 rise again)- why do Politicians betray the people so often and media hacks pretend 4 their favourites- it makes us feel like we're just 3 foot tall -Classified
http://nova0000scotia.blogspot.ca/2013/07/canada-politicans-all-stripes-r.html
SHAMES 4 2DA CANADA..... POLITICAL BULLSHIT AND BEANS- is there one country on this planet that elected or self-appointed politicians actually care 1 iota about the people they serve... the really good everyday folks, kids, aged, disabled, capable, working folks and them looking... seriously???
... WELL NOT IN CANADA- POLITICAL GREED OF ALL PARTIES... make us feel like we're 3 foot tall...
Classified - 3 Foot Tall (music video)
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AND HERE WE GO...
Trying to score political points before knowing all the facts is reckless
As they sift through the ashes of their town, the grieving citizens of Lac-Mégantic can console themselves that their loved ones did not die in vain: they have served as useful props for the advancement of Tom Mulcair’s political career.
If the NDP leader did not explicitly blame the train derailment and explosion that levelled the town on Conservative spending cuts, he certainly left the impression they could have been responsible. "This tragic accident," he told CTV News, "reminds us (that) we are seeing more and more petroleum products being transported by rail, and there are attendant dangers involved in that. And, at the same time, the Conservative government is cutting transport safety in Canada."
This was no stray slip of the tongue. The same day the NDP released a statement making much the same point, in much the same language. "This tragedy reminds us," it quoted its transportation critic, Olivia Chow, that "Conservatives have recklessly cut public safety," to the tune of $3 million in the last year.
"This tragedy reminds us." If the party is not suggesting a causal link, then it is using the disaster to score points about policies that had nothing to do with it. But in fact the only reason to bring them up is to imply that they were somehow to blame, or at the very least could give rise to similar disasters in future.
The issue here is not partisanship, as such: that’s what politicians do. Nor is there anything wrong or disrespectful about searching for explanations after a tragedy, though it is usually considered tactful to wait at least until the remains have been identified. What’s wrong is seizing on explanations without evidence, based solely on calculations of partisan advantage.
Let me repeat: there is no evidence to date to connect the accident in Lac-Mégantic to Conservative spending cuts. Indeed, it has not been established there have even been any cuts, in terms of front-line staff, or if there were, how they might have contributed to events. It’s just something to throw out there, hoping foggy minds will not think too closely about it.
To be fair, the NDP is hardly alone in this game. Commentators on the right have been equally quick to claim the disaster makes the case for transporting oil by pipe, rather than by rail. But here again, there is no evidence, the experts tell us, to say that one or the other is safer overall. Each has its advantages, and each its perils.
Certainly this one accident, as unprecedented as it is horrific, is not sufficient evidence in itself. Consider what a singular convergence of events was required to bring it about. A highly flammable cargo; an unattended train; parked on a hill; on the main track, not a siding; above a town; far enough from town to build up great speed; and, as a final piece, that fatal bend in the track as it entered town. If any one of those is not present, no disaster and no deaths. But even if all are, you still need two more: the failure (so it seems) of the air brakes; and the failure (so it is alleged) to lock the hand brakes.
So as you read each news story suggesting the accident was a result of some obvious regulatory failure, and not to a catastrophic mix of inclement circumstance and human negligence, ask yourself how any of them would have contributed to this particular tragedy; how, if they had not been present, it might have been avoided; or whether whatever remedy is now proposed would have occurred to anyone except in hindsight.
We are told, for example, that the townsfolk had earlier expressed concerns about the condition of the track. Great: how would even an immaculately maintained track have held a train going around a bend at better than 100 kilometres per hour? We are told that the Montreal, Maine & Atlantic Railway used "only" one-man crews, as if it were unusual. But it’s not unusual, except in Canada: in most developed countries it’s the norm. Do runaway trains routinely plow into towns in Europe?
For that matter, do they in Canada? We are told the railways are "self-regulated." But this is simply untrue. They are regulated by Transport Canada (see, for example, the Rules Respecting Track Safety) and the Canadian Transportation Agency under a number of acts, including the Railway Safety Act and the Transportation of Dangerous Goods Act, and are inspected regularly.
For all the oft-cited increase in traffic, Canada’s railways have in fact been getting steadily safer. The number of rail accidents each year — not just the rate, the number — has fallen by roughly a third over the last decade. Derailments are down by a similar amount. The rate of main-track accidents, at 1.6 per million train miles, is barely half what it was in 2005. (Figures available here: http://www.tsb.gc.ca/eng/stats/rail/2012/ss12.asp)
There are things we could do, without a doubt, that would preclude another Lac-Mégantic altogether. We could make the cars out of titanium, or reroute the lines around towns, or take out the bends. But are the costs, potentially high, worth the risk: vanishingly small? We could ban carrying oil by train, but other methods, as I’ve mentioned, have their own risks — and what of the vast number of other hazardous materials that also travel by rail?
Perhaps it is reasonable to require that trains not be left unattended, or not parked on an incline, or that signals or failsafes be installed to catch any trains that do slip their moorings. But whatever regulatory regime we come up with, it won’t alter three fundamental facts: there are events you can’t plan for; there are costs that aren’t worth bearing; and the best regulations in the world only work if people follow them.
Postmedia News
http://o.canada.com/2013/07/10/trying-to-score-political-points-before-knowing-all-the-facts-is-reckless/
AND.... LIBERAL - TORY.... SAME OLE STORY
LORRIE GOLDSTEIN
Liberal, Tory, same old story
7:10 am, July 11th, 2013
In light of the entire forests being wiped out by pundits speculating about Prime Minister Stephen Harper's impending cabinet shuffle, ask yourself this: When was the last time a cabinet shuffle changed your view of a government?
When was the last time you said to yourself: "Well, I really like/dislike Stephen Harper, but now that he's made so-and-so the minister of whatchamacallit, my view of the Conservatives has completely changed?"
How is a cabinet shuffle going to put a "fresh face" on Harper's government (a favourite phrase of the punditocracy), given that the PM runs his government with an iron fist, and, as far as anyone knows, has no intention of shuffling himself out of his job?
Back in the the real world, cabinet shuffles fit G.K. Chesterton's definition of journalism perfectly.
As the British writer put it, "journalism largely consists of saying ‘Lord Jones is Dead' to people who never knew Lord Jones was alive."
So it is with cabinet shuffles, which at least receive less media attention when they don't occur, as this one will, in the dog days of summer.
In other words, at a time when pundits are desperately searching for news out of Ottawa, in the same way a Canadian senator desperately searches for his OHIP card when he's been asked to prove where he lives.
Problem is, what's ailing Harper's government isn't a lack of cabinet shuffles.
What's ailing it is that it's been in power for seven years, through three elections, and has picked up a load of political baggage along the way, from G8 gazebos and fake lakes, to $16 orange juices and the never-ending saga of Sen. Mike Duffy and his amazing $90,000 cheque from the PM's former chief of staff.
Sound familiar? Think back to former Liberal PM Jean Chretien, his illuminated Shawinigan fountain, the sponsorship scandal, and the unforgettable testimony of former Liberal cabinet minister and Royal Canadian Mint head David Dingwall that he was "entitled to my entitlements."
Think of former auditor general Sheila Fraser carving the Chretien government a new one in her report on how the costs of the federal long gun registry, originally budgeted at $2 million, ended up at over $1 billion.
Now think of Auditor General Michael Ferguson reporting on how the Harper Conservatives lost track of $3.1 billion that was supposed to go to fighting terrorism.
This always happens to the party in power and it never has anything to do with its political ideology.
Inevitably, the people who told you they came to fix the government become the government and, over time, turn into the government they came to fix.
It happened to Brian Mulroney's Progressive Conservatives. It happened to Chretien's Liberals. Now it's happening to Harper's Conservatives.
Liberal, Tory, same old story, and in the provinces which occasionally elect NDP governments, it happens there as well.
Who doubts that if Justin Trudeau wins the next election in 2015, we won't, after a few years, be screaming at him about the Liberals' arrogance and sense of entitlement, the way we used to at his late father, long after our early infatuation with "Trudeaumania" faded away?
The reason is that political corruption isn't a function of political ideology - only fools, twitter trolls and political spin doctors believe that. It's a function of power plus years spent in office.
Eventually, those in power develop a taste for the perks that accompany it and forget they came into office promising to end those perks.
This doesn't mean the Conservatives have no hope of being re-elected in 2015 because Harper doesn't have to beat Nelson Mandela and Mother Teresa, just the leaders of the Liberal and NDP parties.
But Harper's big problem right now isn't a lack of cabinet shuffles.
His problem is that, over time, all governments become the things they despised in opposition.
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Politics ‘a dirty word’ for Canadians, finds new study of engagement between elections
By Misty Harris, Postmedia News July 8, 2013 10:38 AM
Protesters participate in the National March for Life on Parliament Hill in this 2006 file photo. Although the case of Ivana Levkovic deals specifically with the law around concealing a child’s body, at least one expert says there’s room for the country’s top court to give a judicial opinion on when human life begins.
Photograph by: David McKinley/Postmedia News/Files , Postmedia News
If the rules of polite conversation forbid talking politics, it’s no wonder Canadians are known for their manners.
Sixty per cent of Canadians say they haven’t discussed a political or societal issue face-to-face or over the phone even once in the past 12 months, according to a striking new study by Samara. And it’s not that those conversations have simply moved online, either.
Just 17 per cent of Canadians say they have shared political content via social media in the last year; 15 per cent blogged about a political issue; 30 per cent used email or instant messaging to talk politics; and 25 per cent participated in an online discussion group for such purposes.
"Politics is viewed as a dirty word – something that isn’t appropriate or that should be celebrated," said Alison Loat, Samara’s executive director. "But it’s through politics that we decide how we’re going to live together, how we shape laws, how we allocate billions of dollars of tax money. . . . It’s the process by which we build our country every day."
Samara, a charitable organization, commissioned the research last year in order to tilt the conversation about low voter turnout toward the underlying issue of poor political engagement between elections.
Nearly 2,300 adults nationwide, with an oversample of young Canadians (18 to 34), participated in the online survey. In it, people were asked whether they had recently been involved in 20 activities Samara considered vital to measuring political engagement.
In just three of those 20 pursuits did more than half of Canadians participate during the past year: joining a group (not necessarily a political one), volunteering, and signing a petition (58, 55 and 51 per cent, respectively). The least popular activities involved "formal" engagement: volunteering in an election, donating to a party or candidate, or joining a political party in the last five years (each drew a positive response of 10 per cent).
On average, Canadians pursued just one-quarter of the possible 20 activities. Only about 20 per cent of Canadians were considered partisans or "party people" (those who’ve been formally involved with a party or campaign).
Samara concludes that "if a healthy democracy requires active participation, then Canada is on pretty shaky ground."
"There isn’t a culture of ongoing discussion and debate around the political issues that shape our country," said Loat, hastening to add that apathy – so often fingered as the culprit for low voter turnout – isn’t the problem.
"There’s lots of evidence that people care about the issues around them. What they don’t do is connect that to politics."
To wit, 49 per cent of Canadians said they had boycotted a product in the last year, and 51 per cent signed a petition, but just 31 per cent contacted an elected official about an issue of concern.
Young people, whom Loat dubs the "canaries in the coal mine," were a good news-bad news story: Although they participated in most activities at the same rate or higher than those 35 and older, their formal engagement was lower by 11 to 34 per cent, depending on the activity.
Loat said people too often connect political involvement with pushing an agenda when, in fact, Samara’s polling suggests "party people" do much of democracy’s heavy lifting: volunteering with community groups, connecting with policymakers, talking to friends and family about issues that matter, and so on.
Starting Monday, Canadians will be asked to recognize such role models at everydaypoliticalcitizen.tumblr.com, an initiative designed to change the way people think about political participation.
"We celebrate volunteering and giving to charities . . . but we don’t equally emphasize how important it is to be an active participant in our democracy," said Loat. "If (engagement) numbers were higher between elections, we’d see a higher voter turnout as well."
mharris@postmedia.com
Twitter.com/popcultini
http://www.canada.com/Politics+dirty+word+Canadians+finds+study+engagement+between+elections/8627950/story.html
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Thank u Lord 4 Peter MacKay in Justice- ensuring Victims matter and justice and rehabilitation actually mean something..... without selling our souls pandering the monsters....
PAEDOPHILE HUNTING HERO OF CANADA ... is moving on.... darn it... AND 2DAY THANKFUL- PETER MAKAY HAS TAKEN THE REINS..... HELLL YEAH! NAIL THE BASTARDS.... HANG THEIR JUNK 2 THE JAILYARD WALL.../
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Vic Toews changed the world 4 the better in Canada- TOEWS MADE US VICTIMS COUNT .... and evil Paedophiles shook in their monster shoes..... and just 4 once... CANADA PUT A REAL HUMAN FACE ON CHILD/SEX TRAFFICKING..... we walked the talk.... millions and millions of victims... cheer 4 vic toews who stood up 4 us every day Canadians and 4 actual victims... instead of the evil trash that destroys the good in each and all of us.... God bless u Toews...seriously.... u walk with all us tarnished angels...
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ONE BILLION RISING-break chains of excuses n abuses- If Canadians can't protect r little girls n boys-how can we save Malalas and Nedas
http://nova0000scotia.blogspot.ca/2013/07/one-billion-rising-breaking-chains-of_11.html
ONE BILLION RISING- Breaking the chains- of excuses and abuses- If Canadians truly see no issue with raping grls in 2013- how can Canada protect Malalas and Nedas in the hard parts of the world?? UNITED NATIONS scoffs at girls and women- git on ur knees- WE R BETTER THAN THAT CANADA- right???? 4 REHTAEH, JENNA, COURTNEY, AMANDA, JAMIE FROM OTTAWA
http://nova0000scotia.blogspot.ca/2013/07/one-billion-rising-breaking-chains-of_11.html
#OpJustice4Rehtaeh Statement Anonymous / Rehtaeh Parsons
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Published on Apr 11, 2013
Anonymous engaged #OpJustice4Rehtaeh this morning in response to the suicide of Rehtaeh Parsons. Justice Minister Ross Landy says that it is important for Nova Scotians to have faith in their justice system. Mr. Landy, justice is in your hands.
Anonymous has confirmed the identities of two of the four alleged rapists. We are currently confirming a third and it is only a matter of time before the fourth is identified as well.
Our demands are simple: We want the N.S. RCMP to take immediate legal action against the individuals in question. We encourage you to act fast. If we were able to locate these boys within 2 hours, it will not be long before someone else finds them.
We do not approve of vigilante justice as the media claims. That would mean we approve of violent actions against these rapists at the hands of an unruly mob. What we want is justice. And That's your job. So do it.
The names of the rapists will be kept until it is apparent you have no intention of providing justice to Retaeh's family. Please be aware that there are other groups of Anons also attempting to uncover this information and they may not to wish to wait at all. Better act fast.
Be aware that we will be organizing large demonstrations outside of your headquarters. The rapists will be held accountable for their actions. You will be held accountable for your failure to act.
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Our little Canadians girls don't have a chance if this crap is still being passed around in 2013- HOW CAN CANADA MILITARY FIGHT 4 MALALAS AND NEDAS IN AFGHANISTAN.... if 36 Million Canadians believe in this bullshit and beans.... OR.... R POLLS ASKING THE WRONG PEOPLE?
... AND BY THE BY... how many boys get raped as well..??? by older men??? bet it's a lot!!!!
Violence Against Women in Canada statistics:
• 677,000 adults, mostly women, reported sexual assault in past five years
• 1.2 million reported intimate partner violence in past five years
• 70 per cent of women who reported spousal assault were working
• 71 per cent had college or university degrees
• 57 per cent who reported sexual assault were working
• 29 per cent were students
• One-third who reported sexual assault had household incomes of $100,000 or more
Source: Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
AND.... 4 REHTAEH PARSON, COURTNEY, AMANDA, JAMIE IN OTTAWA...
Victim blaming still exists in sexual assault cases: poll
By Rebecca Lau
PLAY VIDEO - WATCH THIS VIDEO... what a sick message
HALIFAX – Maritime organizations that work with victims of sexual violence say a culture of victim blaming still persists.
This comes after a new poll revealed one in five Canadians believe that women may provoke or encourage sexual assault by being drunk.
The survey also found 15 per cent of people thought women provoked sexual assault by flirting, while 11 per cent believed wearing a short skirt might encourage it.
"The message is… if she is going to behave in the way that she’s behaving, then you have a right to access her body, which is a very frightening message to be sending to our young boys," said Irene Smith, Executive Director of the Avalon Sexual Assault Centre in Halifax.
Smith said the consequences of this notion can also be dangerous.
Many of the women Avalon helps often express they feel society blames them for the assault.
"The consequence of that, of course, is some long-term psychological and emotional difficulties, including depression and isolating yourself and suicide," Smith told Global News.
The poll was conducted by the Canadian Women’s Foundation, a charity that supports women’s groups — including Avalon.
"Canadians must stop questioning and blaming sexual assault victims and start asking why some men rape women," Anu Dugal, from the Canadian Women’s Foundation, said in a release.
The idea of victim blaming in sexual violence cases was recently brought to the forefront by the death of Rehtaeh Parsons.
The Nova Scotia teen committed suicide after an alleged sexual assault.
Photos of the alleged assault were circulated in her school, and her parents have said she often expressed frustration no one believed her story.
"The fact that people can think that there is ever an instance where a person is provoking a sexual assault is profoundly troubling," said Jude Ashburn, an outreach co-ordinator with Dalhousie University’s South House Sexual and Gender Resource Centre.
"With the death of Rehtaeh Parsons, we’re all focusing on ‘How did we all as a culture fail her?’ and how do we continue to fail survivors of assault,’" Ashburn explained.
Ashburn said society must go beyond the findings of this poll – and continue discussions on how to educate youth about consent and sex.
"Get consent when someone’s sober," Ashburn said. "If you don’t have it, go away. Leave them alone."
http://globalnews.ca/news/705445/victim-blaming-still-exists-in-sexual-assault-cases-poll/
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CREEPY EVIL PAEDOPHILES- LET'S STAMP THEM OUT..... NOT in our Canada- we want an enquiry to fix this in Canada..... they better pray the law gets them.....or we will....MIND RAPERS/PHYSICAL TORTURE/SEXUAL ASSAULT ON BABIES-CHILDREN-TEENS AND YOUNGBLODS... this freak is walking among our children!
Child Abuse Commercial 2
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AND WHEN... the comments r better than the story
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Oh for God's sake take your bureaucratic flim flam and shove it. The girl was raped, by four boys who are still at large with big grins on their faces while the justice minister, the cops, the crown and the whole justice system and now the medical and psychiatry system has egg all over their faces, rotten eggs at that. What I smell here is just a long winded attempt to excuse everyone involved, not surprising because as it was aptly revealed the services that these persons tout are a kilometer long and a millimeter deep.
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Boy you got that down pat whomever you are. The pro's are circling the wagons because they know that they have dropped the ball. Maybe the government should drop a few dozen of them from the provincial pay list.
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We need an election and a new government dedicated to,amongst other things,a full and open inquiry into the Nova Scotia Home for Colored Children and this Parsons case.
What is the status of the police investigation into the alleged sexual assault that precipated the Parsons situation?
We don't require the facts at this time--just an assurance that it has'nt been swept under the rug again
Parsons case demands broad-based inquiry into care for youth at risk
July 9, 2013 - 5:04pm By JOHN C. LEBLANC
On June 25, Premier Darrell Dexter announced a review of Capital Health and IWK Health Centre policies with respect to the Rehtaeh Parsons case. This is one of the recommendations in the June 14 Pepler-Milton report to the Department of Education and Early Childhood Development. We can learn from the new review as well as the Pepler-Milton review, but will separate reports of separate ministries get to the issue of preventing youth suicide?
It is worth contrasting this incremental approach to Merlin Nunn’s 2005 commission to conduct a public inquiry into the death of Theresa McEvoy by a youth incorrectly released from custody. Nunn’s mandate and recommendations were to three separate departments: Justice, Community Services, and Education. The report contained 34 recommendations addressing youth justice administration, youth crime legislation and youth crime prevention. In 2007, the government accepted all recommendations and, as reflected in the November 2011 report of the Auditor General, substantial progress has been made on most of the recommendations.
Contrast this to the mandate given to Debra Pepler and Penny Milton, who were asked to review policies in a single department, the Department of Health and Wellness, and one school board, the Halifax Regional School Board. The Pepler-Milton review received dismissive and negative reactions in the Chronicle-Herald from Paul Bennett on June 18 and Marilla Stephenson on June 14. Ms. Stephenson claimed that the authors simply restated the obvious, e.g. "wait for it — reducing the silos among various government agencies," and claimed that "Much of it could have been written by a well-organized college student. Fluff, indeed." These are unfair and superficial dismissals of a report written by two well-qualified experts handed a very narrow mandate. Both Pepler and Milton have extensive experience with youth at risk and actively collaborate with organizations such as the Canadian Association of Principals and the Canadian Teachers’ Federation. Their report struck a balance between prevention of bullying, emotional trauma, and suicide, and how services for youth should respond to such problems. Their specific and general recommendations were based on evidence when it existed and their own considerable experience. If they had to restate the obvious ("reducing the silos"), it’s because these "silos" continue to hinder our ability to help young people like Ms. Parsons.
Unlike the Nunn Commission, the narrow mandate of this review cannot adequately address how government agencies should deal with youth at risk. Pepler and Milton should have had access to all people and documents in all government ministries with responsibilities for youth. By Sept. 30, we will have another report with a mandate limited to a single ministry, the Department of Health and Wellness. Will the reception again be negative because a report focussed on a single ministry cannot comment on how services for youth at risk should function? Where is the oversight? Will it be the premier or perhaps two or three ministers and their deputies who look over the individual reports and decide how individual ministries will act to prevent tragedies?
Neither report can address how to create an effective system of care for youth at risk. Mental and social problems among youth are complex and our responses to them have become complicated and distributed across four separate ministries (Education and Early Childhood Development, Health and Wellness, Community Services, and Justice) and many community organizations. At least three of these ministries and one community organization (Avalon Sexual Assault Centre) were involved in Ms. Parsons’ care.
The report cites examples of good but transient relationships formed with Ms. Parsons, some of which were ended by her and some by transferring to different schools; yet the burden was on Ms. Parsons and her parents to figure out how to navigate services available across ministries. Long-term effective relationships between a youth and a helpful adult, be it a social worker, guidance counsellor, psychologist, or psychiatrist, should not be terminated because of relocation or switch in services as long as the underlying problem persists. Relationships matter, especially between youth at risk and a caring adult.
Ms. Parsons’ circumstances were not uncommon and we will witness more youth who decide to take their own lives. Does not this recurring problem warrant an inquiry at least as broad-based as the Nunn Commission?
Nova Scotians need a broad and thorough look at how services should be structured for children and youth that goes beyond tweaking existing structures. The creation of an appropriately funded, seamless system of care for at risk youth will be the tribute that Rehtaeh Parsons deserves.
John C. LeBlanc is a physician in pediatrics, psychiatry, community health and epidemiology at Dalhousie University.
http://thechronicleherald.ca/opinion/1140798-parsons-case-demands-broad-based-inquiry-into-care-for-youth-at-risk
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ONE BILLION RISING- Breaking the Chains of abuse-girls-women-boys/CANADA- F**KING PAEDOPHILE HUNTING/POLYGOMY/poster HUMILIATES WOMEN- NOT MEN RAPISTS!!-Shame shame Canada-GOD BLESS ANONYMOUS -master paedophile hunters
http://nova0000scotia.blogspot.ca/2013/07/one-billion-rising-breaking-chains-of.html
ONE BILLION RISING- THE SHAME- THE SHAME- THE BAD- OUR CANADA-WHEN FREE SPEECH CROSSES THE LINE- CANADA'S SUPREME COURT HELD AGAINST A HOMOSEXUAL HATER.... AND SUPREME COURT CANADA SHOULD ALSO RULE ON THIS...
THIS IS NOT FREE SPEECH... THIS IS HATE AGAINST WOMEN...imho
POSTER SHOULD READ..... DON'T BE THAT GUY- WHO RAPES
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Dr. Cristina Stasia @ActionFlickDoc
Hey rape apologists, how about "Don't be THAT guy. Don't rape." #YEG #UofA #YEGdt #YEGsexism #rapeculture #rapemyths pic.twitter.com/S1zo02zsNH
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‘Don’t be that girl’ posters in Edmonton spark debate
By Patricia Kozicka Global News
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EDMONTON – Posters spreading a message that Edmonton police have been trying to fight for years with their "Don’t be that guy" campaign is generating mixed reviews, as well as a conversation in our city about sexual assault.
The Mens Rights Edmonton association is taking responsibility for the campaign. One of its members, who did not want to identify himself, says this poster campaign was intended to counter the "Don’t be that guy" campaign that he says made "rape into a gendered issue."
"We don’t blame victims for anything, we’re simply looking for an accurate discourse on the subject."
The subject was thrust into the spotlight on Tuesday afternoon, when a Women’s Studies instructor at the University of Alberta posted the following tweet:
"I think there are real barriers for women who have been sexually assaulted to come forward, and I think things like this cause more barriers, more hassles for women. Because it requires real courage to come forward," he told Global News.
Calgary Communities Against Sexual Abuse (CCASA) also responded to the campaign with a blog post, writing: "This poster which has mimicked itself after the "Don’t Be That Guy" Campaign has crossed a line by using incorrect information to try to make a point that is absolutely false, inaccurate and 100% incorrect."
"I think what their campaign is saying is that women lie about rape, about sexual assault to get back at a boyfriend," said Karen Smith, executive director of the Sexual Assault Centre of Edmonton. She cited national statistics as evidence that false reports don’t actually happen as often as some people may think.
"One to two percent of sexual assaults reported to the police would be false. And that would be the same for any other crime that would be reported to the police."
The same figure was also used by Acting Insp. Sean Armstrong of the Serious Crime Branch, which includes the Sexual Assault Section. Armstrong says that in the four and a half years he worked as a sexual assault detective, he came across only one false report.
"And I dealt with numerous files; many, many, many files. So they’re extremely rare."
But the group’s message is seeing its fair share of support, as well.
http://globalnews.ca/news/706030/dont-be-that-girl-posters-in-edmonton-spark-outrage/
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ONE BILLION RISING- breaking the chains of abuse against girls and women and little boys 2
Married to a monster: 'Life with Billy' and the story of Jane Hurshman
Life with Billy (TV 1994) Based on a true Story
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CANADA'S VICTIMS- IT'S TIME THE VICTIMS CAME FIRST...
Advocates at odds over victims' rights bill
Federal ombudsman for victims of crime has 30 recommendations for bill
Violence Against Women in Canada statistics:
• 677,000 adults, mostly women, reported sexual assault in past five years
• 1.2 million reported intimate partner violence in past five years
• 70 per cent of women who reported spousal assault were working
• 71 per cent had college or university degrees
• 57 per cent who reported sexual assault were working
• 29 per cent were students
• One-third who reported sexual assault had household incomes of $100,000 or more
Source: Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2013/07/10/pol-victims-rights-bill.html
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and.... the monsters who beat and abuse their women.... who have been able 2 hide behind the law 4 way 2 many years.... fix this sheeeet..
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Married to a monster: 'Life with Billy' and the story of Jane Hurshman
Darrell Squires
November 20, 2007, was the 25th anniversary of the groundbreaking "not guilty" verdict in Jane Hurshman's first-degree murder trial in Liverpool, N.S.
On its publication in 1986, Brian VallÉe's book "Life with Billy" publicized in detail Jane's hell-on-earth marriage to Billy Stafford. It was a story of abuse under the thumb of a violent psychopath and sexual sadist.
Republication of the book "Life with Billy" in 2008, in a special commemorative edition, brings together the subsequently published "Life after Billy," published in 1993 - a year after Jane's suicide, and "Life and Death with Billy," which combined the two previous books in a single volume.
The new edition gives the complete story of Jane's life and death.
Even though she eventually served time in prison for manslaughter, the initial verdict of "not guilty" in the murder trial of Jane Stafford (nÉe Hurshman) in 1982 was a pivotal decision that helped change Canadian law as it applies to battered women who kill their spouses.
The Nova Scotia Supreme Court ordered a new trial when the Crown successfully appealed the verdict, ruling that the evidence of Billy Stafford's brutality against Jane served only to create sympathy for the accused.
Another ruling of the appeal court rejected Jane's argument of self-defense, on the basis that her husband was asleep in his truck when she shot him - and was therefore of no immediate threat.
But these developments led in 1990 to the landmark Supreme Court of Canada ruling that a battered woman should be allowed to use a plea of self-defense for killing her abuser, even if an attack against her was not in progress or imminent. It also ruled that evidence of "battered wife syndrome" and evidence of the deceased's character were admissible in support of the self-defense plea.
As Brian VallÉe's account of her life makes clear, Jane Hurshman was a victim of many betrayals during her life.
Very little about "Life with Billy" makes for easy reading, and even professionals who work with victims of spousal abuse, and who are familiar with its horrors, are likely to find particular passages and descriptions difficult to absorb.
Billy Stafford brutalized not only Jane, but also their young children.
And even though Jane Hurshman's life ended tragically, it still carries a powerful message of hope - especially in light of Jane's career as an advocate on behalf of abused women.
Ask for this book at your public library.
Darrell Squires is assistant manager of Public Information and Library Resources Board, West Newfoundland-Labrador division. You can contact him at: dsquires@nlpl.ca or by phone at 634-7333.
http://www.thewesternstar.com/Opinion/Columnists/2009-10-17/article-1483208/Married-to-a-monster%3A-Life-with-Billy-and-the-story-of-Jane-Hurshman/1
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AND... MORE DISGRACE...
Violence against women: Canada needs federal strategy, report says
Lack of data, national policy thwarts progress to end violence against women, says report from Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.
Violence Against Women in Canada statistics:
• 677,000 adults, mostly women, reported sexual assault in past five years
• 1.2 million reported intimate partner violence in past five years
• 70 per cent of women who reported spousal assault were working
• 71 per cent had college or university degrees
• 57 per cent who reported sexual assault were working
• 29 per cent were students
• One-third who reported sexual assault had household incomes of $100,000 or more
Source: Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2013/07/11/violence_against_women_canada_needs_federal_strategy_report_says.html
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PAEDOPHILE/PAEDOPHILE/PAEDOPHILE
AND..... THE DISGRACE..THE DISGRACE OF PAEDOPHILE EVIL- WILLIAM FENWICK MACKINTOSH- again free 2 rape little boys of Canada, California and India...
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Crown’s workload, extradition delays blamed in MacIntosh case
July 10, 2013 - 3:30pm By DAVID JACKSON Provincial Reporter
UPDATED 8:59 p.m. Wednesday
Justice Minister Ross Landry apologized to Ernest Fenwick MacIntosh’s victims Wednesday as the Public Prosecution Service acknowledged it didn’t stay on top of the case like it should have.
Landry released the service’s review of the file and the reasons for the lengthy delay in bringing MacIntosh to trial. The review points to a heavy workload in the Port Hawkesbury Crown office and issues around the federal responsibilities for extradition and passport renewal.
The first complaint about the businessman molesting boys in the Port Hawkesbury area was made in 1995, but MacIntosh, by then working in India, didn’t go to trial until 2010. His convictions on 17 sexual offences were eventually overturned because of the delay.
"We know that the role we played in the delay is unacceptable, and we know that letting these courageous men down is unacceptable," said Martin Herschorn, director of the Public Prosecution Service.
The report says Richard MacKinnon, the only Crown attorney in Port Hawkesbury at the time, handled about 1,000 cases a year before a second prosecutor was added in 1997.
That was why followup with complainants and the lead RCMP investigator was slow, the report says.
It also describes the mysterious renewal of MacIntosh’s passport — twice — while a warrant was out for his arrest, the federal Justice Department’s strict requirements for extradition, and the delays in meeting those requirements.
"Nova Scotia is deeply sorry for what’s occurred here," Landry said.
"Nova Scotia is owning its part, and we expect the federal government to do the same."
Landry wrote to federal ministers Wednesday, asking for reviews of the International Assistance Group, a division of the federal Justice Department that handles the extradition process, and Passport Canada.
The case started in 1995 when Dale Sutherland told British Columbia RCMP that MacIntosh had sexually assaulted him in the 1970s in Nova Scotia. In December 1995, two charges were laid against MacIntosh, who had moved to California and then to India in 1994.
The RCMP issued a warrant for MacIntosh’s arrest in early 1996 and asked Canadian immigration and passport officials in late 1997 to red-flag MacIntosh, whose passport had just been renewed in May 1997.
The report says the passport office started an application to have it revoked, but the application was withdrawn in early 1998 for unknown reasons.
MacKinnon started talking to the International Assistance Group in August 1997 about extraditing MacIntosh. Herschorn, then the deputy director of the prosecution service, made a formal request a year later.
The extradition was slowed down on several fronts, the report says. An affidavit from Sutherland identifying MacIntosh was required, but Sutherland couldn’t pick him out of a photo lineup because of the poor quality of a photo of MacIntosh faxed to British Columbia. Officials didn’t get a better photo until May 2000.
As well, if someone is extradited, they can only be tried on charges laid by the time of the extradition.
As the International Assistance Group waited for identification information, more people came forward with complaints about MacIntosh, pushing the RCMP investigation into 2001. By then, the Mounties had laid 43 charges.
For the extradition, the International Assistance Group required an affidavit from each complainant, sworn before a judge, not a notary public. The report says the Crown started sending letters to the complainants, who lived as far away as Florida and B.C., in May 2002.
Meanwhile, MacIntosh’s passport was again renewed.
The Crown couldn’t reach four complainants. It sent along the other information to the International Assistance Group in June 2003 but didn’t hear back. The Crown contacted the IAG in May 2004 and was told an affidavit from the lead RCMP investigator would do, in the absence of paperwork from the four complainants who couldn’t be reached.
It took two years to get that affidavit completed. During that time, the investigator had been transferred out of province, and MacKinnon had taken a six-month leave.
The report also says it took 11 months for the government of India to act. And it details MacIntosh’s defence motions that held up his trial after he was brought back to Canada in 2007.
MacIntosh, 69, was eventually convicted on 17 counts from two trials in 2010. The Nova Scotia Court of Appeal overturned the convictions in December 2011, saying his charter rights had been violated because of the undue delay in going to trial.
The provincial Crown lost its appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada in April of this year.
Contacted in Alberta on Wednesday, Sutherland sounded immensely frustrated with the whole matter and said there are still missing details about the delays.
"Where do I go from here? I don’t know," he said. "I want answers. I think people should be held accountable, and I don’t think it should be just simply pointed at the prosecuting attorney because he didn’t do his job quick enough.
"Maybe he should have, but there’s some other people in higher positions that really need to be held accountable."
MacKinnon, appointed a provincial court judge in 2009, "was not in a position to comment at this time," said John Piccolo, a spokesman for the Nova Scotia judiciary.
Kenneth Haley, the chief Crown attorney for Cape Breton in the early years of the MacIntosh case, is now a Nova Scotia Supreme Court justice.
Liberal justice critic Michel Samson said having an agency review its own conduct isn’t good enough and there should be an independent inquiry.
"I think there’s more questions that need to be answered, and the only way to give satisfaction to Mr. MacIntosh’s victims, to the community and to all Nova Scotians is to have an independent party look at this," he said.
Progressive Conservative MLA Chris d’Entremont said a third-party review is warranted, given the complexity of the case and the multiple agencies involved.
The RCMP, which also released a report on its handling of the case, didn’t contribute to the delay, the province said.
Herschorn said the prosecution service is taking steps to prevent such delays in the future. They include having an electronic alert when cases haven’t returned to court for eight months, and making delayed cases a regular agenda item at Crown attorneys’ management meetings.
Carole Saindon, a spokeswoman with the federal Justice Department, said officials will review the report and the IAG will look at its processes.
http://thechronicleherald.ca/novascotia/1141090-crown-s-workload-extradition-delays-blamed-in-macintosh-case
AND.... PAEDOPHILE/PAEDOPHILES/PAEDOPHILES AND BLACK ON BLACK CHILD ABUSE...
NOVA SCOTIA HOME 4 COLOURED CHILDREN- opened 1921
Letters allowed into evidence in Home case
July 10, 2013 - 12:26pm EVA HOARE STAFF REPORTER
Residents’ lawyer says documents support bid for class-action suit against province
Lawyer Ray Wagner, who represents former residents of the Nova Scotia Home for Colored Children, speaks with media at the Law Courts in Halifax last month. Wagner and his clients received good news Wednesday when letters that could undermine the province’s case against a proposed class action involving the Home were allowed into evidence. (CHRISTIAN LAFORCE / Staff)
Letters that could undermine the province’s case against a proposed class action involving the Nova Scotia Home for Colored Children were allowed into evidence on Wednesday.
Justice Arthur LeBlanc made the ruling after lawyers for the province battled in Nova Scotia Supreme Court against their admission.
One letter in particular, from Peter McVey, the province’s lawyer on the case, appeared to directly connect Children’s Aid Societies to government. It said the societies were an "administrative arm" of government.
On the face of it, that seems to contradict the province’s long-held stance that it wasn’t linked to the societies, one of which ran the home, and therefore wasn’t liable for any abuses that allegedly happened there.
But LeBlanc decided to let that letter and another, which also states the province had an oversight role in the societies’ operation, into the court record.
"If these are admissions of fact, … then they are to be admitted for the truth of the admission," LeBlanc said, adding they’re "probative and are not prejudicial."
He said the letters would carry less weight if they were deemed "legal" admissions.
LeBlanc said he would reserve his decision on whether the letters would be labelled as findings of fact or legal admissions.
It wasn’t clear when that decision would come, but Ray Wagner, who represents the residents, said a ruling could be wrapped into the final certification decision or made on its own.
If the letters are deemed to be "fact," then they’ll have a "much more powerful impact" on his case, Wagner said. "We would argue the issue has been decided for all time."
McVey had wanted the letters barred, saying they weren’t relevant. He said his was written in 2011 and applied only to the present-day situation.
But Wagner disagreed, saying McVey’s missive was part of a string of letters that dealt with abuse going back decades.
McVey also said the information in the letters is contained in statutes already in the judge’s possession.
If the case could be argued on such statutes, Wagner, on rebuttal, said his team has already met the criteria for certification.
"We’ve accomplished our goals (from) what we’ve heard today," he said.
Catherine Lunn, the other provincial lawyer on the case, contended that the law states the province has legal immunity from being sued for anything that happened before Nov. 1, 1951. As a result, she argued the time frame for the proposed class action should be limited to between 1951 and the late 1980s.
Right now, the time frame extends from 1921 to 1990.
Lunn said Nova Scotia is one of the few provinces that didn’t adopt a British-made workaround that allowed people to sue the Crown via a "right of petition."
Outside court, Wagner said the action, which involves two clients who were at the home before the 1950s, could still proceed on other grounds, such as a breach of fiduciary duty.
And, in some cases, the alleged abuse spanned from before 1951 into the 1950s, meaning it’s still eligible, he said.
Because the case is so diverse, with residents alleging abuse at the hands of other residents, Lunn said there is a "conflict." As a result, she said it shouldn’t be allowed to proceed.
Lunn also appeared to lament the amount of time a class action could take.
"I’ve had a researcher working for almost two years at the archives (on) document production," Lunn told LeBlanc.
She suggested a few "test cases" should go forward instead.
LeBlanc wondered how the length of a class action would differ from the amount of time Wagner has said the 56 concurrent individual home cases would take to wend their way through the court system.
Wagner has previously said he would be at least 114 years old before the individual home cases ended and a class action is the most efficient way to proceed.
On alleged underfunding at the orphanage, McVey said politicians made "economic" decisions when turning down some financial requests, and discrimination had nothing to do with it.
In many cases, the home’s board secured more money after asking government for it, he said, adding that per diem rates went up from 1977 through to 1979.
"Is this evidence of underfunding, of discrimination, as alleged?" the provincial lawyer asked.
The case resumes today and runs through Friday.
http://thechronicleherald.ca/novascotia/1141055-letters-allowed-into-evidence-in-home-case
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Actually it nails it.... back then this would have been huge!- PAEDOPHILE MONSTERS WHO STEAL THE SOULS OF OUR BABIES
CREEPY CHILD ABUSE tv Commercial 1975
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XL2-YFE6ww
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AND.... POLYGAMY... EVIL POLYGAMY..... RAPING LITTLE GIRLS AND THROWING LITTLE BOYS OUT ON THE STREET...
Canada: All forms of polygamy, and some informal multiple sexual relationships, are illegal by Section 293 of the Criminal Code of Canada. Bigamy is banned by Section 290.
and..
Canada's polygamy laws upheld by B.C. Supreme Court
'I have concluded that this case is essentially about harm.'— B.C. Chief Justice Robert Bauman
CBC News Last Updated: Nov 23, 2011 8:13 PM PT
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/story/2011/11/23/bc-polygamy-ruling-supreme-court.html
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THEN LET'S REMEMBER LIFE WITH BILLY- THAT NIGHTMARE WOMEN HAVE BEEN FIGHTING 4 YERS- wanna get ur rocks off- vomit.... this shld do 4 the perverts...of pain
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CHILD ABUSE- mind rape-physical torture-sexual assault
Child Abuse Prevention Commercial
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odL7EwkYYi8
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CHILD ABUSE- mind rape-physical torture-sexual assault
EVIL-EVIL-EVIL- nothing funny about this...
Funniest sexual abuse ad EVER
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fj4ak2WpLFM
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New Film Tackles Child Abuse
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpppfsyhspc
"Only On The Web:" Tom Arnold discusses being molested as a child. Gillian Jacobs, Evan Ross, and director Damian Harris, also weigh in on their new film "Gardens Of The Night," which opens Nov. 7th.
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NOVA SCOTIA HOME 4 COLOURED CHILDREN- OPENED 1921
PROPOSED NSHCC PANEL
Still waiting for answers
YOU can’t blame former residents of the Nova Scotia Home for Colored Children for being skeptical about the NDP government’s proposal this week to investigate — via an undefined "independent panel" — their allegations of past chronic neglect and physical and sexual abuse at the facility.
For as much as government officials say the panel will have teeth and a mandate to dig for truth, whether through testimony or government documents, none of that will be confirmed until the proposed body’s terms of reference, powers and personnel are known.
We’ve long called on government to put in place a public judicial inquiry to get to the bottom of what happened, find out who knew, and determine the reasons why more wasn’t done at the time to stop any neglect or abuse.
The government is right that a judicial inquiry isn’t the only way to get the answers needed. But until the details of what’s being proposed are released, we can’t endorse an alternative.
Government officials told our editorial board this week, for example, that one model now being studied is the federal truth and reconciliation commission on residential schools. We note, however, that commission has no powers to compel testimony or subpoena documents and operates under strict restrictions regarding the naming of individuals.
Provincial officials have also said they’re trying to tread a path that does what’s needed and has the widespread support of the African-Nova Scotian community.
But as Tony Smith and Tracey Dorrington-Skinner, both former residents of the Home, aptly noted Tuesday, that community has competing interests.
If former residents of the Home who’ve alleged abuses are not satisfied with what government ultimately proposes, the province will run the risk of appearing to put mollifying the community ahead of getting answers, ugly as they may be.
The province won’t put a timetable on when details of the independent panel will be finalized. It’s a complex matter, and certainly must be done right. But for those who’ve spent years hoping to find justice, including readers who’ve been following our stories of these horrific allegations for more than a year, this is taking far too long, leading many to question motives.
(edits@herald.ca)
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Trafficking of Children in the United States: Documentary Film
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXlvObVuKeE
COMMENT:
Have you ever been molested? Do you understand that the act itself is not what causes the long term effects. It is the mental trauma not the physical that causes irreparable long term damage. How do I know this? I was molested for several years and abused in many ways sexually and mentally, the physical heals, the mind doesn't. Whether a child is 1 year or 10 years the act is the same intent of? mental abuse. I think death is too easy for these pricks. They need to be tortured over years.
COMMENT:
Sexual touching of a child - in any way - should be punished with equal severity. The distinguishing of levels of severity will only allow a pedophile to continue molesting children. Pedophilia is not a curable condition and does not deserve to be marginalized especially for the victims
Published on Jun 30, 2012
Trafficking of children is a form of human trafficking and is defined as the "recruitment, transportation, transfer, harboring, and/or receipt" of a child for the purpose of exploitation. Though statistics regarding the magnitude of child trafficking are difficult to obtain, the International Labour Organization estimates that 1.2 million children are trafficked each year. The trafficking of children has been internationally recognized as a major human rights violation, one that exists in every region of the world. Yet, it is only within the past decade that the prevalence and ramifications of this practice have risen to international prominence, due to a dramatic increase in research and public action. A variety of potential solutions have accordingly been suggested and implemented, which can be categorized as four types of action: broad protection, prevention, law enforcement, and victim assistance. Major international documents regarding child trafficking include the 1989 U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child, the 1999 I.L.O. Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention, and the 2000 U.N. Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, especially Women and Children.
Commercial sexual exploitation of children (CSEC) constitutes a form of coercion and violence against children and amounts to forced labour and a contemporary form of slavery.
A declaration of the World Congress against Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children, held in Stockholm in 1996, defined CSEC as: 'sexual abuse by the adult and remuneration in cash or kind to the child or a third person or persons. The child is treated as a sexual object and as a commercial object.'
CSEC includes the prostitution of children, child pornography, child sex tourism and other forms of transactional sex where a child engages in sexual activities to have key needs fulfilled, such as food, shelter or access to education. It includes forms of transactional sex where the sexual abuse of children is not stopped or reported by household members, due to benefits derived by the household from the perpetrator. CSEC also potentially includes arranged marriages involving children under the age of 18 years, where the child has not freely consented to marriage and where the child is sexually abused.
Prostitution of children under the age of 18 years, child pornography and the (often related) sale and trafficking of children are often considered to be crimes of violence against children. They are considered to be forms of economic exploitation akin to forced labour or slavery. Such children often suffer irreparable damage to their physical and mental health. They face early pregnancy and risk sexually transmitted diseases, particularly AIDS. They are often inadequately protected by the law and may be treated as criminals.
Child trafficking and CSEC sometimes overlap. On the one hand, children who are trafficked are often trafficked for the purposes of CSEC. However, not all trafficked children are trafficked for these purposes. Further, even if some of the children trafficked for other forms of work are subsequently sexually abused at work, this does not necessarily constitute CSEC. On the other hand, according to the U.S. Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000, the definition of Severe Forms of Trafficking in Persons includes any commercial sex act performed by a person under the age of 18. This means that any minor who is commercially sexually exploited is defined as a trafficking victim, whether or not movement has taken place. CSEC is also part of, but distinct from, child abuse, or even child sexual abuse. Child rape, for example, will not usually constitute CSEC. Neither will domestic violence.
Although CSEC is considered as child labour, and indeed one of the worst forms of child labor, in terms of international conventions, in legislation, policy and programmatic terms, CSEC is often treated as a form of child abuse or a crime.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_tr...
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PAEDOPHILE ALERT/PAEDOPHILE ALERT-ewwwwww
Toronto teacher faces 42 sex-related charges
Man taught core French at Inglewood Heights Public School
CBC News
Last Updated: Mar 28, 2013 12:57 PM ET
A Toronto elementary school teacher has been charged with 42 different sex-related charges, some involving students, police say.
Police say the 53-year-old teacher at Inglewood Heights Public School, near Sheppard Avenue and Kennedy Road, turned himself in this morning.
"It's alleged that between September of 2012 and March of 2013 several students reported being sexually assaulted, [or] having comments made to them," said Const. Wendy Drummond of the Toronto police.
Police won't say how many students have come forward with allegations.
"We have the crisis response team at the school today, and they will continue to be there as long as needed to support the students and the staff," David Johnston, with TDSB, said Thursday at a news conference.
The accused has been charged with 16 counts of sexual assault, 12 counts of sexual exploitation and 14 counts of assault, police say.
He appeared in court Wednesday morning.
The 53-year-old taught core French at Inglewood to students in Grades 4 to 6.
Grant Bowers, a lawyer with the TDSB, confirmed that the accused is at home, suspended with pay.
Officials from the TDSB confirmed Thursday at a news conference that within the past few years the accused has worked at several other Toronto schools, including:
Humberwood Downs Junior Middle Academy
Derrydowns Public School
Chester Le Junior Public School
Gateway Public School
The Toronto District School Board sent home a note with students on Wednesday, saying "pending outcome of this matter a supply teacher has been retained" while the accused remains on suspension.
The school plans to have its own meeting with parents on Tuesday, to review procedures and respond to any questions they may have.
"The primary purpose of that meeting is to reassure parents that we are giving their children support and giving them ways that they can support them at home," said Bowers.
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Police warn London, ON residents of pedophile in wheelchair
LONDON, ON - Police have released the identity of a 300-lb. pedophile in a wheelchair who plans to move to London.
Despite his size and disability, Robert Bell, 57, has been convicted of molesting children 15 times and is considered a high risk to re-offend, police said. He has just been released from Warkworth penitentiary, where he completed a 14-year sentence.
His victims, across Canada, were all between the ages of 2 and 12. Bell has followed a pattern - gaining the trust of compassionate single mothers who try to help him and then betraying that trust, police said.
"We generally don't release the identity of sex offenders because we have to protect the safety of everybody, but because a psychological assessment has determined he has a high risk of sexual re-offending, we feel its important to notify the public this convicted offender is coming to London," said London Police Const. Ken Steeves.
http://www.sunnewsnetwork.ca/sunnews/canada/archives/2013/03/20130327-135238.html
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SHELDON KENNEDY- CHILD ABUSE SURVIVOR- who had the guts to tell Canada what happened to a boy who loved hockey.... and the monster that destroyed a piece of his youth 4-EV-A
To prevent sex abuse, empower the bystander
Sheldon Kennedy, Respect Group Inc.
Sheldon Kennedy, Respect Group Inc.
The following testimony was delivered on Tuesday to the U.S. Congressional Subcommittee on Children and Families by Sheldon Kennedy, the co-founder of Respect Group Inc.
For many Canadians, hockey is everything. It is our passion, our culture and our national pride. Like most boys growing up on the Prairies, I dreamed of playing in the National Hockey League and, luckily for me, that dream came true. I played for the Detroit Red Wings, the Boston Bruins and the Calgary Flames.
But it’s not my dream that I’m best known for — it’s my nightmare. As a junior hockey player, I suffered years of sexual abuse and harassment at the hands of my coach, Graham James.
Despite the nature of the abuse, the hurt I experienced and the fact I knew what was being done to me was wrong, it took me over 10 years to come forward to the authorities. Why didn’t I say anything? This is the question that I asked myself again, and again and again. It’s the question I know everyone else was asking. And it’s the question that plagues the millions of sexual abuse victims around the world.
Even though I wrote a whole book on the subject, the answer is quite simple: Because I didn’t think anyone would believe me. In my case, my abuser was named the International Hockey Man of the Year. In Canada, that gave him almost God-like status. Sound familiar?
The man who preyed on me took advantage of his position as a coach to look for children who were especially vulnerable (single parent households, families with drinking problems, boys who needed a father figure, etc.). These kids — and often their parents too — looked up to him as a hero. This was someone who could make their dreams come true and he used that trust to hurt them. This imbalance of power and authority creates a deeper problem and it’s the one that I think this subcommittee has to deal with head-on if you truly want to prevent child abuse.
In every case of child abuse — certainly in my own — there are people who had a "gut feeling" that something was wrong but didn’t do anything about it. Their attitude was, "I don’t want to get involved," "it’s not my problem," "he couldn’t possibly be doing that" or "the authorities will take care of it."
And that’s what pedophiles and predators are counting on. They are counting on the public’s ignorance or — worse yet — their indifference. That’s what keeps child abusers in business. And that is what you have to address.
From my experience, a child who is being abused has to tell — on average — seven people before their story is taken seriously. Seven. That is completely unacceptable.
When my story became public in 1997, there were people who refused to believe it. Many were angry that I had exposed an ugly side of their beloved sport.
Fortunately, Hockey Canada responded seriously to my situation and made abuse-prevention education mandatory for their 70,000 coaches. And this is the positive message that I want to leave you with this morning.
Seven years ago, I co-founded Respect Group Inc., in partnership with the Canadian Red Cross and its internationally recognized experts in the prevention of child abuse.
Together, we launched an online training program for sport leaders called "Respect in Sport." It focuses on educating all adult youth leaders on abuse, bullying and harassment prevention including a sound understanding of your legal and moral responsibilities.
Our belief at Respect Group is that we may never fully eliminate child abuse, but by empowering the 99% of well-intentioned adults working with our youth, we can greatly reduce it. I am proud to say that, through Respect in Sport, we have already certified over 150,000 youth leaders, which represents a high percentage of all Canadian coaches.
Many sport and youth-serving organizations have mandated the Respect in Sport program, and the list continues to grow: Hockey Canada, Gymnastics Canada, the Province of Manitoba, school boards and some early adopters here in the United States, including USA Triathlon and USRowing. In addition, organizations such as Hockey Canada and Gymnastics Canada have implemented our Respect in Sport program designed specifically for parents.
We also are seeing proactive initiatives by the Canadian government to combat child maltreatment — not just tougher legislation and minimum sentences for perpetrators — but a federal approach to prevention education that spans the ministries that touch our most vulnerable youth.
We have learned that social change takes time and has to occur at both the grass-roots level and from the government on down. I am pleased to say that is exactly what is happening in Canada, and I hope it’s what will happen here in the United States, too.
Over the years, through my work at Respect Group, I’ve learned that:
•Educating the good people — the well-intentioned 99% of our population — is our best defence to prevent abuse;
•Training must be mandatory to ensure full compliance and reduce liability;
•The education has to be simple and consistent;
•All forms of abuse leave the same emotional scars, so training has to be comprehensive;
•Education is best delivered online to ensure consistency, safety of the learner, convenience and the greatest reach; and finally,
•Training must be ongoing, it’s not a one-time thing.
Too often, society’s response to child abuse is to focus on punishing the criminal. If the teacher, priest or coach is sent to jail for a long time, then we feel that we’ve done our jobs as citizens or as politicians. Punishing the bad guys makes us feel good, but it does not fully solve the problem. You need to give all adults working with youth, and all parents, the tools to recognize and respond to abuse when it first arises.
I am under no illusion that such an approach will fully eliminate child abuse, but I do know that mandatory education creates a platform within all organizations for that conversation to happen. Empower the bystanders and you’ll be taking an important first step in breaking the silence on child abuse.
Visit Respect Group Inc. to learn more about Sheldon Kennedy’s work.
Learn more about Canadian Red Cross’ violence prevention work through its program entitled RespectED: Violence & Abuse Prevention.
SHELDON KENNEDY- 4 CHILD ABUSE SURVIVORS- CANADA RED CROSS
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AND THOSE SUFFERING FROM ABUSIVE PARENTS ESPECIALLY.... DRINKING AND DRUGGING ABUSE...... PLEASE KNOW WE LOVE U SO MUCH....and walked this talk like so many of billy currington's tarnished angels...... thinking if we were just a little more perfect.... the adults who own us.... would perhaps love us just a little better.... and protect us from mind rape deliberate cruelty, physical torture.... and sexual abuse....... because children and youth are truly God's innocents here on earth.....
For each an every youngblood.... please know millions and millions of us love and support you.... you are NOT throwaway toys or trashdrops.... each and every one of you is a treasure as individual and as beautiful as a raindrop with the sun sparkling on it so beautifuly it takes our breath away...... each and every one of you are 'would be' artists, musicians, poets, scientists, inventors, spiritual guiders, history and keepers of the written word... so many things... all things... and we love you... admire you.... please don't give up on us.... we need you terribly. Thank you Jimmy Wayne.... and all your friends along the way..... lonliness and hoplessness and despair knows no race, colour, creed or orientiation... it's just a soul stealer..... let's take back our world ... and our beautiful youngbloods.... each and every one...
IT'S NOT WHERE YOU'VE BEEN- IT'S WHERE YOU'RE GOING
Jimmy Wayne.mov (Please help homeless kids and youngbloods- USA 1.7 Million (much higher/Canada hundreds of thousands and so on)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0mOjYAllQo
CLASSIFIED TEACHES US ALL A LESSON WITH THIS INCREDIBLE SONG..... OF THE FACT.... THAT LIFE WORKS .... IF U WORK IT....and all the bullshit and beans that get dumped on u.... raise up baby...... you can overcome and empower yourself ....oh yes u can....
...BY THE BY... our David Myles.... Canada's Lyle Lovett and Buddy Holly ....also wraped up in Canada's Flag joins Classified...proving that a brilliant song and brilliant voices... and imagination.....can truly inspire....
Classified - The Day Doesn't Die
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZH3VXyIWL8
Billy Currington's life... and his country music debut "Walk A little Straighter Daddy..... says more about it all... and touched children and youngbloods from ALNON etc. than any song or video... it's the truth music... raw... real and righteous... and billy currington nails it.... with a song... he started writing this song that stole our hearts.... and broke them... at 12 years of age...
Boy have I been there.... on both sides of the table.... this simple stunning song and that 'voice'... and that billy currington with the southern soul that only can be born to you.... Georgia's backwoods country boy.... told it like it is.... for all the youngbloods.... who know real and raw... and the truth song.... Billy Currington will always have tarnished angels like him.... for fans..... because we walked.... his talk.... and lived to tell the tale....
Billy Currington- WALK A LITTLE STRAIGHTER DADDY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1no7Or9BeI
COMMENT: (from the mouths of babes)
grew up with an abusive step father, an alcoholic mother who went out every other night to drink and i would watch my younger siblings....sure it was hard but i learned what not to be...and just having graduated high school with my mother not attending my graduation...i know what kind of father i want to be and ill be there for every damn football game, ballerina lesson, or whatever my kids want to do...because i now know what it takes to be a good man learning from the mistake of my parents :)
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Jerry Sandusky denies shower sex with young boy in controversial interview on NBC
Associated Press and Genaro C. Armas and Mark Scolforo, National Post Staff | 13/03/25 | Last Updated: 13/03/25 11:01 AM ET
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — Jerry Sandusky said in interview excerpts broadcast Monday that a key witness against him misinterpreted him showering with a young boy in Penn State football team facilities more than a decade ago.
Sandusky told documentary filmmaker John Ziegler, in recordings played on NBC’s "Today" show, that he does not understand how Mike McQueary concluded "that sex was going on" when he witnessed Sandusky showering with a boy in 2001.
The boy, identified as Victim 2 in court records, was not a witness at trial. A team of civil lawyers has said they are representing Victim 2 and posted online audio recordings of voicemails purportedly from Sandusky and left for the boy.
"That would have been the last thing I would have thought about," Sandusky said during what Ziegler described as 3 1/2 hours of interviews. "I would have thought maybe fooling around or something like that."
McQueary, a graduate assistant in 2001, testified at trial that he heard "skin-on-skin smacking sound" and had no doubt he was witnessing anal sex.
But appearing on Today on Monday, Ziegler told NBC’s Matt Lauer he found some of the evidence at the Sandusky trial to be problematic, especially the McQueary testimony.
"Do you believe Jerry Sandusky is a pedophile and he is guilty of the things he was accused of?" Lauer asked.
"I have no doubt Jerry Sandusky was guilty of many of the things, if not all the things he was accused of, but I do believe there were due process problems with the trial," Ziegler responded.
"I don’t know that Mike McQueary is lying by the way," he added. "I think a large part of what happened here is over ten years, your memory changes and then when a prosecution is desperate for a witness they might twist your arm a little bit."
Ziegler continued to go on about Victim 2, adding that he found information that "shed a new light" on the incident McQueary witnessed.
Maybe I tested boundaries. Maybe I shouldn’t have showered with them. Yeah, I tickled them. I looked at them as being probably younger than even some of them were
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"[Victim 2] very publicly, and I have the documentation to prove this, in his own name, said that the accusers of Jerry Sandusky are not to be believed, and that Jerry Sandusky was the greatest thing that ever happened to him," he said.
NBC’s decision to air the interview conducted by Ziegler came under fire last week when it was reported he called the case against Sandusky "remarkably weak." Even more telling: The Paterno family does not want to be associated with Ziegler, who is making a documentary called "The Framing of Joe Paterno." They issued a statement about the Sandusky interview on Monday.
"The release of the audio recording of Jerry Sandusky is a sad and unfortunate development. Sandusky had the opportunity to speak, under oath, during his trial and he chose not to do so. Releasing a recording at this time, nearly a year after he was found guilty on 45 counts, is transparently self-serving and yet another insult to the victims and anyone who cares about the truth in this tragic story," the statement from attorney Wick Sollers said.
"The Paterno family would prefer to remain silent on this matter, but they feel it is important to make it clear that they had no role in obtaining or releasing this recording. Moreover, they believe that any attempt to use this recording as a defense of Joe Paterno is misguided and inappropriate."
In a transcript posted online, Ziegler said he asked Sandusky whether McQueary was wrong when he said they made eye contact during that incident.
"I don’t know that he’s lying," Sandusky replied. "I think that he would be uncertain about it and he may have said that I thought that I saw him. But he wouldn’t have known that. How could he have known that?"
McQueary’s father, John McQueary, declined comment, and there was no answer at McQueary’s lawyer’s office early Monday. Mike McQueary has filed a defamation and whistleblower lawsuit against Penn State over how he was treated after Sandusky’s arrest.
If he absolutely thought I was, I’d say no. If he had a suspicion, I don’t know the answer to that
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Sandusky also told Ziegler he was not sure whether head coach Joe Paterno, who was fired after Sandusky’s November 2011 arrest, would have let him keep coaching if he suspected Sandusky was a pedophile. Sandusky was investigated by university police for a separate shower incident in 1998, but remained one of Paterno’s top assistants through 1999.
"If he absolutely thought I was, I’d say no," Sandusky said. "If he had a suspicion, I don’t know the answer to that."
When Ziegler asked Sandusky whether he would admit touching some of the boys inappropriately, Sandusky responded that he didn’t do it, according to the transcript posted on www.framingpaterno.com .
"Yeah, I hugged them," Sandusky said, according to Ziegler. "Maybe I tested boundaries. Maybe I shouldn’t have showered with them. Yeah, I tickled them. I looked at them as being probably younger than even some of them were. But I didn’t do any of these horrible acts and abuse these young people. I didn’t violate them. I didn’t harm them."
Ziegler, who is working on a defence of Paterno, said the interviews were conducted during three sessions, and told the AP on Monday that additional excerpts will be posted online over the coming days. He also has exchanged correspondence with Sandusky that he does not intend to release.
Wick Sollers, a Paterno family lawyer, said in a statement released Sunday that Sandusky had an opportunity to testify at trial but "chose not to do so."
Penn State issued a statement that said Sandusky’s latest remarks "continue to open wounds for his victims, and the victims of child sexual abuse everywhere."
Sandusky, 69, is serving a 30- to 60-year prison sentence after being convicted last year of 45 counts of child sexual abuse. He maintains his innocence and is pursuing appeals.
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UNITED KINGDOM
Sex Attack Victim Speaks Out After 28 Years
A woman who stayed silent after being abused aged 10 speaks out to help convict her attacker and says others should do the same.
10:20pm UK, Monday 25 March 2013
Helen Alexander
Video: 'I was scared my mum would tell me off, I thought it was my fault'
A woman who was sexually assaulted 28-years ago has told Sky News why she waived her right to anonymity to speak out about her ordeal.
Now 38, Helen Alexander was 10 when a neighbour lured her to his home and dragged her into his front room as she walked home from school in Worcester.
Almost three decades after the attack, she has now finally seen the man responsible, Darren Purchase, jailed.
She said: "One day I was coming home from school and I saw a friend of my brothers standing on his doorstep.
Darren PurchaseDarren Purchase was jailed for 25 years for a series of sexual assaults
"He grabbed my arm and dragged me into his house and pushed me onto the sofa. In a sick way he was trying to reassure me as he pulled my tights down and sexually assaulted me.
"He was a very big guy. He was like a giant and I couldn't fight him off. But I had an opportunity to escape as he was on one knee. I managed to run out screaming saying I was going to tell my mum.
"But I was scared my mum would tell me off. I was scared it was my fault. At the time I didn't tell an adult, I just told a friend."
She was eventually contacted by police investigating attacks committed by Purchase, who began offending when he was 13-years-old.
Now 44, he was arrested after one of his victims discovered he was still spending time around children and contacted police in the hope it would stop him attacking anyone else.
Purchase has been locked up for 25 years on 18 counts of sexual assault on seven female victims and one male victim which were committed between 1984 and 2011.
Sentencing Purchase, Judge Robert Jucker said: "You worked your way into (your victims') affections by plying them with food and cigarettes.
"This is a remarkable catalogue of sexual offending by any standards."
Ms Alexander spoke of the relief she felt as she saw Purchase being sentenced at Worcester Crown Court and she explained why she took the decision to reach out to other victims.
"I've been diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), I've had panic attacks and I don't trust people.
John CameronJohn Cameron, NSPCC: 'Historically victims have not been listened to'
"I have difficulties in relationships and I've been having therapy just to get through the court case, but I'd recommend anyone else to do the same.
"I would like any person whether male or female, children or adult, if anything has happened to them, to think 'this person did it, this person came through this'.
"I'm still alive today even though I've had thoughts that have been darker. I just want someone to know there is a police force there to help you, there are people that can help you."
John Cameron, head of child protection at the NSPCC, told Sky News it is often difficult for victims to come forward years after.
He said: "You can imagine what it's like giving evidence in court then publicly coming forward and talking to the whole nation about traumatic things that happened to them as a child.
"For Helen to speak out means that others who have been victims of abuse and who are currently victims will be inspired by her behaviour and have the courage to come forward.
"This will mean we can investigate these concerns and make sure anyone who presents a risk to children are brought to justice.
"We know historically that people have not been listened to or taken seriously and there has been a struggle to get these investigations undertaken.
"I hope that post-Savile, and with Helen coming forward, there will be a major sea change taking place and victims will be listened to."
http://news.sky.com/story/1069598/sex-attack-victim-speaks-out-after-28-years
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SHELDON KENNEDY- CHILD ABUSE SURVIVOR- who had the guts to tell Canada what happened to a boy who loved hockey.... and the monster that destroyed a piece of his youth 4-EV-A
To prevent sex abuse, empower the bystander
Sheldon Kennedy, Respect Group Inc.
Sheldon Kennedy, Respect Group Inc.
The following testimony was delivered on Tuesday to the U.S. Congressional Subcommittee on Children and Families by Sheldon Kennedy, the co-founder of Respect Group Inc.
For many Canadians, hockey is everything. It is our passion, our culture and our national pride. Like most boys growing up on the Prairies, I dreamed of playing in the National Hockey League and, luckily for me, that dream came true. I played for the Detroit Red Wings, the Boston Bruins and the Calgary Flames.
But it’s not my dream that I’m best known for — it’s my nightmare. As a junior hockey player, I suffered years of sexual abuse and harassment at the hands of my coach, Graham James.
Despite the nature of the abuse, the hurt I experienced and the fact I knew what was being done to me was wrong, it took me over 10 years to come forward to the authorities. Why didn’t I say anything? This is the question that I asked myself again, and again and again. It’s the question I know everyone else was asking. And it’s the question that plagues the millions of sexual abuse victims around the world.
Even though I wrote a whole book on the subject, the answer is quite simple: Because I didn’t think anyone would believe me. In my case, my abuser was named the International Hockey Man of the Year. In Canada, that gave him almost God-like status. Sound familiar?
The man who preyed on me took advantage of his position as a coach to look for children who were especially vulnerable (single parent households, families with drinking problems, boys who needed a father figure, etc.). These kids — and often their parents too — looked up to him as a hero. This was someone who could make their dreams come true and he used that trust to hurt them. This imbalance of power and authority creates a deeper problem and it’s the one that I think this subcommittee has to deal with head-on if you truly want to prevent child abuse.
In every case of child abuse — certainly in my own — there are people who had a "gut feeling" that something was wrong but didn’t do anything about it. Their attitude was, "I don’t want to get involved," "it’s not my problem," "he couldn’t possibly be doing that" or "the authorities will take care of it."
And that’s what pedophiles and predators are counting on. They are counting on the public’s ignorance or — worse yet — their indifference. That’s what keeps child abusers in business. And that is what you have to address.
From my experience, a child who is being abused has to tell — on average — seven people before their story is taken seriously. Seven. That is completely unacceptable.
When my story became public in 1997, there were people who refused to believe it. Many were angry that I had exposed an ugly side of their beloved sport.
Fortunately, Hockey Canada responded seriously to my situation and made abuse-prevention education mandatory for their 70,000 coaches. And this is the positive message that I want to leave you with this morning.
Seven years ago, I co-founded Respect Group Inc., in partnership with the Canadian Red Cross and its internationally recognized experts in the prevention of child abuse.
Together, we launched an online training program for sport leaders called "Respect in Sport." It focuses on educating all adult youth leaders on abuse, bullying and harassment prevention including a sound understanding of your legal and moral responsibilities.
Our belief at Respect Group is that we may never fully eliminate child abuse, but by empowering the 99% of well-intentioned adults working with our youth, we can greatly reduce it. I am proud to say that, through Respect in Sport, we have already certified over 150,000 youth leaders, which represents a high percentage of all Canadian coaches.
Many sport and youth-serving organizations have mandated the Respect in Sport program, and the list continues to grow: Hockey Canada, Gymnastics Canada, the Province of Manitoba, school boards and some early adopters here in the United States, including USA Triathlon and USRowing. In addition, organizations such as Hockey Canada and Gymnastics Canada have implemented our Respect in Sport program designed specifically for parents.
We also are seeing proactive initiatives by the Canadian government to combat child maltreatment — not just tougher legislation and minimum sentences for perpetrators — but a federal approach to prevention education that spans the ministries that touch our most vulnerable youth.
We have learned that social change takes time and has to occur at both the grass-roots level and from the government on down. I am pleased to say that is exactly what is happening in Canada, and I hope it’s what will happen here in the United States, too.
Over the years, through my work at Respect Group, I’ve learned that:
•Educating the good people — the well-intentioned 99% of our population — is our best defence to prevent abuse;
•Training must be mandatory to ensure full compliance and reduce liability;
•The education has to be simple and consistent;
•All forms of abuse leave the same emotional scars, so training has to be comprehensive;
•Education is best delivered online to ensure consistency, safety of the learner, convenience and the greatest reach; and finally,
•Training must be ongoing, it’s not a one-time thing.
Too often, society’s response to child abuse is to focus on punishing the criminal. If the teacher, priest or coach is sent to jail for a long time, then we feel that we’ve done our jobs as citizens or as politicians. Punishing the bad guys makes us feel good, but it does not fully solve the problem. You need to give all adults working with youth, and all parents, the tools to recognize and respond to abuse when it first arises.
I am under no illusion that such an approach will fully eliminate child abuse, but I do know that mandatory education creates a platform within all organizations for that conversation to happen. Empower the bystanders and you’ll be taking an important first step in breaking the silence on child abuse.
Visit Respect Group Inc. to learn more about Sheldon Kennedy’s work.
Learn more about Canadian Red Cross’ violence prevention work through its program entitled RespectED: Violence & Abuse Prevention.
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Jehovah's Witness Church Elders Covered Up Sex Abuse By Paedophile
UNITED KINGDOM
Sky Tyne and Wear
By Kevin Donald
Jehovah's Witness church elders covered up a child sex scandal in their congregation and refused to co-operate with the police.
Ministerial servant Gordon Leighton admitted sexually abusing a child when he was confronted with allegations before elders at his church.
But during the official police investigation the 53-year-old, who hit the headlines in the 1990s when his wife Yvonne, 28, died after refusing a blood transfusion after childbirth on religious grounds, denied any illegal wrongdoing.
When detectives asked elders Simon Preyser, Harry Logan and David Scott to make statements about the confession, all three refused and said what they had heard was confidential.
Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:57 AM
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Former Teacher Stephen Budd Can Soon Face Child Porn Charges
FLORIDA
CBS 12
WEST PALM BEACH - A former private school teacher in West Palm Beach who was arrested on sex charges involving two girls could soon face charges of possession of child pornography.
Authorities say they found images on Stephen Budd's hard drive which contained 41 images of child pornography and 19 videos containing more than two-hours of sexual abuse.
The 51 year old was arrested in April for allegedly offering two girls in his class candy in exchange for sex acts.
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Catholic Church Abuse: New York Cardinal Attempted To Protect $130 Million From Victims of Sexual Abuse
UNITED STATES
Latin Post
By Stefan Lopez (s.lopez@latinpost.com)
The Catholic church has long been scrutinized for its inability to keep sexual predators out of its midst. Now, it is coming to light that one prominent cardinal from New York did very little to protect several children from a sexually deranged priest but had little problem shielding tens of millions of dollars from
It has been alleged that Cardinal Timothy Dolan was aware of the sexual improprieties made by one of the Church's priests. He then advised the Vatican that it would be wise to move funds from easily-accesible accounts to much more secretive ones.
"Cardinal Dolan's moves involving church assets have come under particular scrutiny. Lawyers for the victims said the documents would prove that he transferred $130 million from the church's books -- about $55 million in a cemetery account, and $75 million in an investment account -- to shield the money from abuse victims," noted the New York Times.
The news has come out after numerous claims against the Catholic Church against one of its priests, the Reverend John O'Brien. Dolan was allegedly aware of his transgressions around 2003. New documents that have been requested in the plaintiff's case against the Catholic Church confirm those allegations.
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Free legal advice for abuse inquiry
AUSTRALIA
The Australian
ANYONE thinking about speaking to the royal commission into child sex abuse can now get free legal advice.
Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus on Tuesday launched Knowmore, a free national legal advice line for people interested in providing information to the commission.
Mr Dreyfus said the government will spend $18 million over four years on the service as part of a $62 million fund for legal advice related to the commission.
"A great deal of work has already gone into the setting up of this legal advisory service and it's now up and running," he told reporters in Sydney.
Run by the National Association of Community Legal Centres, it received 18 phone calls in its first three days last week.
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Pedofilia, «l'ex prete ha pianificato le accuse alla Curia per vendetta»
ROME
Corriere della Sera
ROMA - Ci sarebbero diversi testimoni pronti a giurare quanto fossero pianificate a tavolino le denunce dell'ex sacerdote Patrizio Poggi, il cui scopo era screditare le alte sfere della Curia con accuse di pedofilia e prostituzione minorile. Il tutto per ottenere la restituzione dello stato clericale dopo aver scontato cinque anni per una storia di sesso con minorenni. È questo il contenuto dei verbali che lunedì mattina il procuratore aggiunto Maria Monteleone ha messo a disposizione del tribunale del riesame, che si è riservato di decidere sul ricorso dell'ex sacerdote contro l'ordinanza di custodia cautelare in carcere del 28 giugno scorso per calunnia.
CALUNNIE PIANIFICATE A TAVOLINO - La procura, dal suo punto di vista, ha insistito: Poggi (che non era in aula) deve rimanere in carcere perchè la sua attività calunniosa è stata estesa più di quanto si possa immaginare e studiata da tempo nei dettagli, alimentata da quel risentimento personale nutrito nei confronti di chi ha impedito il suo ritorno all'abito talare.
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william fenwick mackintosh
Alleged pedophile ran free
For nearly 11 years, a Canadian charged with sexually abusing young boys was free to prey on children overseas while Canadian authorities dragged their feet on his extradition from India.
Police escort alleged pedophile Fenwick Macintosh from his home in the New Delhi suburb of Gurgaon on May 18 of this year. "I don't understand why he was able to get a new passport, or why we weren't asked to arrest him sooner," says New Delhi Police Insp. Awanish Dvivedi.
NEW DELHI–For nearly 11 years, a Canadian charged with sexually abusing young boys was free to prey on children overseas while Canadian authorities dragged their feet on his extradition from India.
Now, after being banned from two Indian schools, and more than three decades after allegedly committing his first offences in Canada, the accused pedophile may finally be on the verge of extradition from India.
But Ernest Fenwick MacIntosh's case raises serious questions about Canada's commitment to pursuing fugitives who hide on foreign soil, wreaking havoc with the lives of possible victims. Officials with the federal justice department and the Nova Scotia prosecution service blame one another for the decade-long delay, but can provide no clear explanation for why this case fell through the cracks.
Indeed, the federal Passport Office renewed MacIntosh's Canadian passport in 2002, at the very time Canadian police and justice officials were considering how to have him extradited. Without a passport, MacIntosh would have been compelled to leave India.
"I don't understand why he was able to get a new passport, or why we weren't asked to arrest him sooner," says New Delhi Police Insp. Awanish Dvivedi.
"It appears to me the whole system in Canada was asleep."
RCMP first charged MacIntosh in 1995 after one Nova Scotia man alleged he was abused as a young boy. But it wasn't until last year that Canadian authorities asked India to arrest the 63-year-old bachelor and send him back to face trial.
During that time, MacIntosh lived in New Delhi's best neighbourhoods and travelled overseas as a high-flying manager for major electronics companies.
While he lived in India and on several prior visits, MacIntosh befriended dozens of young boys he met through churches, schools and casual encounters on the street.
Two former students of Gandhi Ashram, – a school in northeastern India run by a Canadian priest – now say MacIntosh took them to area hotels where he fondled them or coerced them into performing oral sex. An outwardly devout Roman Catholic, MacIntosh was one of many foreign visitors who came to Darjeeling during the mid 1980s to witness firsthand Father Ed McGuire's fledgling effort to feed and educate the area's poorest children.
One of the students says he was just 11 when MacIntosh first invited him to stay at his hotel as a "special treat." Now 31, he recounts waking that night to find MacIntosh touching and putting his mouth on his private parts. There were subsequent stays, he says, when MacIntosh showered with him and coaxed him to provide oral sex.
"He would take me to his room, molest me and the next morning we would go to mass," he says.
"It seems crazy to me now, but back then it was normal because I didn't know any better."
The alleged offences in Canada date back to the 1970s, when MacIntosh ran his own electronics company in Port Hawkesbury, Nova Scotia.
After MacIntosh was charged, police tracked him down in India and phoned in August 1996 to see if he'd come back to Canada to face trial. MacIntosh refused, so the RCMP asked the federal government to revoke his passport in the hope that Indian authorities would then deport him.
Under federal regulations, a passport can be revoked or refused to anyone wanted on an indictable offence. But when Canadian authorities tried to take away his passport in September 1997, MacIntosh fought the move in Federal Court. The judge was not impressed by the government's evidence and ordered another hearing. Before that happened, federal lawyers abandoned the case.
MacIntosh kept his Canadian passport, obtained another in 2002 and continued to travel frequently on business and pleasure to Britain, the Netherlands, Bangladesh, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Sri Lanka. By 1998, police and government lawyers in Nova Scotia realized they needed a new strategy to get MacIntosh back to Canada.
A spokesperson for Nova Scotia's prosecution service says in August that year a formal extradition request was sent to Justice Canada. But Chris Hansen says lawyers with the federal department asked lots of questions before they would agree to proceed.
As the RCMP dug for answers, she says they found eight more boys who alleged MacIntosh had sexually abused them.
"There was a lot of back and forth," Hansen says. "It took a little while."
By December 2001 – some two and half years after Nova Scotia requested
MacIntosh's extradition – the charges were finalized and warrants were issued. There were now 43 counts of indecent assault or gross indecency stretching over a seven-year period and involving young males from Halifax and several small communities in eastern Nova Scotia and Cape Breton.
Then, for reasons that neither Nova Scotia nor the federal government will explain, there was a further delay of five and a half years before an extradition request was sent to Indian authorities last July.
"The process is the responsibility of the federal government," Hansen says. "We can request, but it's their decision about when to act."
But Tom Beveridge, who oversees extraditions at Justice Canada, suggests incompetence by lawyers and police back in Nova Scotia is the reason the case took so long to complete.
"We get sent stuff all the time that's not good enough and we have to send it back till it's done right," Beveridge says.
While the wheels of justice ground slowly in Canada, MacIntosh was still working deals with India's business elite by day and spending evenings with schoolboys. Abinash Bindra rented MacIntosh the ground floor of his family's New Delhi home for two years in the mid 1990s, before suggesting the Canadian should move elsewhere.
"There were always young boys coming over for ice cream and meals." Bindra says. "We'd see him caressing these kids the way a parent might. It made us very uncomfortable."
Despite his generous donations to Gandhi Ashram, former staff members say MacIntosh was banished from the school in 1999, after allegations he assaulted a student he'd taken on an overnight trek in the nearby mountains.
Balam Garung, the school's administrator at the time, says a dozen boys went on the trip, but a 13-year-old returned a day later than the others after spending the night at MacIntosh's hotel. A few weeks later, Garung says, the youth told him MacIntosh had fondled him.
Contacted by phone, the accuser – now 20 years old and studying at a college in Darjeeling – again says MacIntosh sexually molested him. Indrajit Singh, the school's science teacher at the time, recalls the angry confrontation that followed the alleged incident.
"MacIntosh was swearing and denying he'd done anything wrong," Singh says. "Father McGuire was telling him to go and never come back."
While MacIntosh was no longer welcome at Gandhi Ashram, he remained a regular visitor to another area school, Dr. Graham's Homes. The school says MacIntosh paid $5,000 to fund one boy's fees and donated another $2,500 for repairs to a dormitory.
In his May 2001 report, the principal wrote that MacIntosh also "gave some of our boys a holiday."
But Michael Robertson, chair of the board at Dr. Graham's Homes, says MacIntosh was banned from the campus in 2004 after staff learned of the allegations he faced in Canada.
When MacIntosh tried to attend a church service at the school last year, Robertson says security officers escorted him off the premises.
"He came bearing the credentials of an international businessman and we trusted him. We find it sad that he was allowed to openly travel the world for so many years while these charges were pending."
A legal scholar at the University of British Columbia says the apparent foot-dragging in MacIntosh's case could prompt a judge in Canada to dismiss the charges.
"It's usually only one or two years from when charges are laid and the file is sent to a foreign government," says Garry Botting. "The victims have a right to speedy justice, but so does the accused."
Since his arrest, MacIntosh has been denied bail, although he's allowed out of New Delhi's infamous Tihar Jail during business hours under guard to wrap up his affairs.
Through his lawyer, MacIntosh refused a request for an interview. Harvinder Singh Phoolka says his client is not contesting his extradition and thinks an Indian judge may order him returned to Canada after his next court appearance in early June. If MacIntosh is indeed extradited, he will leave behind many unanswered questions. Police in New Delhi wonder about the photos of young boys they found in his apartment. In several, the youths are sitting on his lap. In one, they say, a boy is lying asleep on a bed. Text messages they say were stored on his cellphone show MacIntosh's involvement with unsuspecting youths continued right up until the eve of his arrest.
"Don't you forget I love you," he writes to a 14-year-old boy.
"I am in Delhi and missing you," reads a message sent to a 15-year-old he met on the street and invited back to his hotel room.
To another youth, he types three suggestive messages in the space of 11 minutes: "For banana, I will come to get you. For banana, I am free any time."
"If you find it and it is remembering me and ready, tell me and I will come."
Matt McClure is a Canadian freelance journalist based in India.
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Here's another:
http://www.metronews.ca/halifax/canada/article/582840--nova-scotia-man-guilty-of-1970s-sex-crimes-against-boys
MacIntosh beaten in sheriff's van after bail denied
Ernest Fenwick (Fen) MacIntosh walked out of the Sydney Justice Centre, after being released on bail in April 2008, in this Post file photo.
Published on August 13th, 2010
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Nova Scotia man guilty of 1970s sex crimes against boys
PORT HAWKESBURY, N.S. - A former Nova Scotia businessman has been convicted of 13 sex crimes against boys in the 1970s.
Ernest Fenwick MacIntosh had faced a total of 26 charges of indecent assault and gross indecency involving three complainants.
The charges against the 67-year-old MacIntosh go back 15 years in a case that required prosecutors to extradite him from India.
Three complainants testified earlier this month that MacIntosh repeatedly fondled and performed oral sex on them when they were between 11 and 14 years old.
They alleged the incidents occurred in the 1970s in various locations around northeastern Nova Scotia.
During his testimony, MacIntosh admitted performing oral sex on two of the complainants but said they were older than the age of consent at the time and that it was consensual.
Nova Scotia Supreme Court Justice Simon MacDonald called MacIntosh's actions "repugnant" and ordered him to be held in custody pending a future sentencing hearing.
In delivering his verdict Tuesday, MacDonald said he found the evidence of the first complainant credible but had difficulty with some of the evidence provided by the second complainant.
During the trial, the now middle-aged complainants testified they were severely traumatized by their sexual encounters with MacIntosh, and did not come forward for years out of fear and embarrassment.
The first complainant told the court he believed there had been more than 100 incidents of fondling or oral sex, saying the encounters were "routine."
He originally brought forward allegations of repeated sexual fondling and oral sex to RCMP in British Columbia in 1995. About a year later, MacIntosh was charged.
But by then he had left Canada to set up a business and residence in India.
The Mountie who investigated the complaint said he first called MacIntosh in New Delhi in January 1996 to tell him there was a warrant for his arrest.
MacIntosh claimed the phone went dead before he heard of the warrant, and — though he said he was "curious" — he never called back. In 1997, he was told his passport wasn't being renewed due to the criminal charges.
Extradition proceedings started in 1997 but were marred by delays. New allegations of abuse came forward in 1999. Prosecutors halted the extradition as police checked into those allegations.
MacIntosh was extradited to Canada in June 2007.
Defence lawyers had applied for a stay before the Nova Scotia Supreme Court, saying MacIntosh's right to a fair trial had been damaged by "abhorrent" delays. The court refused the application, concluding that MacIntosh was responsible for the delays because he didn't voluntarily return to Canada to face the charges.
The trial is the first of two MacIntosh is facing on a total of 36 charges of indecent assault and gross indecency.
Update: MacIntosh beaten in sheriff's van after bail denied Ernest Fenwick (Fen) MacIntosh walked out of the Sydney Justice Centre, after being released on bail in April 2008, in this Post file photo.
Published on August 13th, 2010
Published on August 13th, 2010
Police say the man alleges he was assaulted by another prisoner while in the back of a sheriff’s van.
The incident happened around 6:30 p.m. Thursday.
Police say the investigation is in its preliminary stages and they still have to interview several more witnesses.
A report in the Halifax Chronicle Herald quotes an unidentified inmate at the jail as saying the victim of the assault was convicted sex offender Ernest Fenwick MacIntosh.
A source confirmed the victim was MacIntosh, whose bid for bail was dismissed by a Nova Scotia Court of Appeal judge in Halifax earlier in the day.
This doesn't even make up for the pain he caused in one incident on a victim.... nonetheless .... TAKE THAT YOU HORRIBLE LITTLE OVERSIZED LEPRECHAUN-PEDOPHILE
http://www.capebretonpost.com/News/Local/2010-08-13/article-1672242/MacIntosh-beaten-in-sheriffs-van-after-bail-denied/1
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JUST FOUND - JUST FOUND - ARTHUR FEDWICK MACKINTOSH..... EVIL NOVA SCOTIA BOY RAPER
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Ernest Fenwick MacIntosh - Pedophile - Nova Scotia
« on: October 03, 2010, 10:06:53 PM »
I'm left speechless. And yet I don't know why I am so surprised and shocked. I should be used to this farce of Law Enforcement by now.
By CBC News, cbc.ca, Updated: October 3, 2010 7:52 PM
N.S. pedophile case deserves inquiry: group
Warning: This story contains graphic details from court testimony.
An organization that fights international child exploitation is demanding a public inquiry into why a pedophile was allowed to live in India for years while he was wanted on a Canada-wide warrant.
Rosalind Prober, co-founder of Beyond Borders, said Ernest Fenwick MacIntosh's case is a failure of the Canadian justice system.
"This case is so far off the radar screen in terms of incompetence by so many people that there has to be more done to find out what went wrong," she told CBC News.
Only a public inquiry will show who should be held accountable, Prober said.
MacIntosh was sentenced on Tuesday to four years in prison for sexually abusing two boys in Port Hawkesbury, N.S., in the 1970s, and faces three more accusers in March.
However, 12 years passed from the time the first victim came forward, in 1995, and when the RCMP extradited MacIntosh from India in 2007 to face the 36 charges laid against him.
MacIntosh's passport was renewed twice in that time, despite a Canada-wide warrant for his arrest.
Victim molested 100 times
One of MacIntosh's victims, whose identity is protected by a court order but who is referred to in court documents as D.S., told CBC News many mistakes were made along the way.
"There's no doubt in my mind whatsoever that he could have been brought home much sooner," D.S. said.
During the trial he testified he was sexually assaulted about 100 times in the early 1970s, starting when he was about nine and continuing until he was 12 or 13. MacIntosh, a friend of the family, would take D.S. on hunting trips and other outings, rubbing the boy's crotch and performing oral sex on him, D.S. said.
D.S. moved on with his life, but said he decided to come forward in 1995 because his wife works in child protection and he realized MacIntosh might be abusing other boys. He approached the RCMP in British Columbia., where he now lives.
By the time D.S. came forward, MacIntosh was working in India for California Microwave, an international supplier of microwave radios and telecommunications satellites.
He needed a passport to do his job, and got two renewals despite the warrant issued in 1996.
Gar Pardy, the director-general of Canada's Consular Affairs Bureau from 1992 to 2003, said he was made aware of MacIntosh's warrant, not by the RCMP but by D.S. himself.
Pardy said he contacted RCMP in Nova Scotia, and then the passport office became involved. MacIntosh was put on a passport control list and government embassies and high commissions overseas were warned about him in the fall of 1996.
"It is incumbent upon all our offices overseas when they receive an application for a passport or a renewal of a passport that they check to see whether the applicant is included on the passport control list," Pardy said. "Unfortunately, that did not happen and our office in New Delhi did issue a new passport to Mr. MacIntosh."
The passport was issued in May 1997, he said.
When Pardy's office learned that the passport had been issued, it asked Passport Canada to consider a revocation order to reclaim the passport, and the passport office obliged.
MacIntosh appealed the revocation and won. In his ruling, the judge noted that the Crown did not bring forward a copy of the arrest warrant.
"Why that kind of information did not go to the federal court judge? I'm bewildered because it was so basic to the issuance of the revocation order," Pardy said.
'Nobody was following the case'
In 2002, the passport was renewed again, "which suggests to me that certainly nobody was following the case in the Department of Justice with any degree of intensity," Pardy said.
Passport Canada turned down CBC's request for any information related to MacIntosh.
D.S. also told CBC News that MacIntosh had an apartment in Montreal and flew in and out of Canada freely despite the warrant. A cousin of D.S.'s ran into MacIntosh at an airport in Paris and, not realizing the charges against him, got his telephone number.
When D.S. learned about the encounter, he gave the RCMP MacIntosh's Montreal phone number.
D.S. followed up with the RCMP a week later, only to learn that the police had left a message for MacIntosh with somebody who answered the phone, asking him to call the RCMP. By the time the police went to his apartment, he had fled, D.S. says.
"What a bunch of dunces!," D.S. said. "I just started realizing that, you know, our system is a farce."
The RCMP always had the opportunity to extradite MacIntosh, but the case was delayed further because three years after the extradition process started, the Department of Justice informed the Crown that when somebody is extradited they can only face the charges for which they were extradited.
But by August 2001, eight more men had come forward with accusations against MacIntosh.
Delay 'quite disturbing'
Diane McGraw, the Crown prosecutor who recently took charge of the case, said part of the reason for the delay was that this was the first time the Canadian government had sought extradition of an individual from India, "so there was a bit of a learning curve as well in terms of what documentation India required [and] what form that documentation had to take."
Many of the complainants were also scattered across Canada, she said.
Pardy doesn't believe that justifies the multi-year delay. He says the long wait is "quite disturbing" and said it was fortunate the delay didn't force the judge to throw the charges out.
D.S. says he believes the only reason the case gained any traction was because he approached Conservative cabinet minister Peter MacKay of Nova Scotia, who asked the province's attorney general to extradite MacIntosh back to Canada.
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Re: Ernest Fenwick MacIntosh - Pedophile - Nova Scotia
« Reply #1 on: October 03, 2010, 11:38:33 PM »
Sleuth; this jerk only got 4 years, but he's heading back to court in February I believe it is, not sure, but he's being hit with a whole bunch more charges. I have to check that out. I know I put him on the Pedophiles in Nova Scotia thread. Guess I need to update that he only got "a slap on the hand", however, it might end up he'll be going to court for years to come. He's under lock and key right now, but credit for time served. I can't see him ever get out when he faces the new list of charges.
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Worse than ignorance...... is indifference.
Re: Ernest Fenwick MacIntosh - Pedophile - Nova Scotia
« Reply #2 on: June 12, 2011, 08:12:16 PM »
Update on case: (he makes my skin crawl)
http://949thecape.com/news_story.php?newsID=6768
MacIntosh appeal
By Greg MacLean. Last updated: 2011-06-09 09:18:50
THE APPEAL COURT OF NOVA SCOTIA HAS RESERVED ITS DECISION AFTER HEARING ARGUMENTS ON THE CONVICTION LAST JULY
OF A STRAIT AREA BUSINESSMAN ON 13 OF 26 SEX CHARGES.
THE COUNTS AGAINST ERNEST FENWICK MACINTOSH INCLUDED INDECENT ASSAULT AND GROSS INDECENCY. HIS LAWYER,
BRIAN CASEY, WANTS THE CONVICTIONS OVERTURNED, ARGUING THE TRIAL JUDGE GAVE TOO MUCH WEIGHT TO THE
COMPLAINANTS TESTIMONY. CASEY ALSO QUESTIONED THEIR CREDIBILITY. THE CROWN SAID THE TRIAL JUDGE FOUND
THE COMPLAINTANTS IN THE CONVICTIONS CREDIBLE, BUT DID NOT FEEL THE SAME WAY ABOUT MACINTOSH. THREE
COMPLAINANTS WERE INVOLVED, AND THE JUDGE REJECTED THE TESTIMONY OF ONE OF THEM, DISMISSING THE CHARGES
IN HIS CASE.
LAST MONTH MACINTOSH WAS SENTENCED TO 18 MONTHS IN A SEPERATE CASE ALSO INVOLVING BOYS IN THE 1970'S.
HE PLANS TO APPEAL THAT ONE AS WELL.
(I wish they'd throw him in jail and then throw away the key.)
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« Reply #3 on: June 13, 2011, 11:13:26 AM »
He is now released pending appeal and I hope that have taken his passport from him.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/story/2011/06/13/ns-macintosh-appeal-release.html
MacIntosh released pending 2nd appeal
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Ernest Fenwick MacIntosh has been released from jail while he prepares an appeal on a second set of convictions for sexually abusing boys in the 1970s.
The Nova Scotia Court of Appeal agreed to release the 68-year-old on Monday.
He must remain under house arrest and abide by a strict set of conditions, such as having no contact with anyone under the age of 14.
MacIntosh was convicted of sex crimes against young boys in eastern Nova Scotia in two separate trials.
He was sentenced to four years in jail after he was convicted on 13 counts of gross indecency and indecent assault last July. He was given two years' credit for time already spent in custody.
MacIntosh sought an appeal, arguing that there was conflicting testimony about a date. In October, a court agreed to release him from jail ahead of a second trial on similar charges.
In January, MacIntosh was found guilty on another two counts each of gross indecency and indecent assault. He was sentenced to 18 months in jail with no credit for time served.
RCMP in Nova Scotia received the complaints about the former Port Hawkesbury businessman more than 15 years ago.
MacIntosh was arrested in 2007 in India, where he worked as a telecommunications specialist for 13 years. He was extradited to Canada two months later.
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« Reply #4 on: August 08, 2011, 06:23:22 PM »
I am at the end of my roap here! I am a tennent in an apt building at 159 albro lake rd, dartmouth, nova scotia canada and on july 15 ,2011 the owner and property manager mover this creep into this building! I am told that by law they were supposed to notify all of us that they intended to move this sub human life form in and they did not! More-over several of us have asked point blank and we were All lied to! Today after much research i have uncovered the truth and now they are not denying! he has paid rent till end of january 2012 when he goes back to jail i am told! we the ppl of this building are very upset and we want to no what we can do about this and the fact that they not only Didnt inform us but really dont care! I am also told that i have every legal right to post this info all about the neighbourhood! I do not no the law on this but i do no that you can post stuff on posts as long as its not a lie! I am just sick and madded than hell! I am told he has restrictions but i am superintendent here (or was because they have fired me for speaking out) (also illegal im sure) and i was told to install an internet connection in this creeps bedroom because he likes to use his computer in his bedroom! I am wondering how he can have use of a computer in the first place! Also this sub human life form is going to Montreal soon ! how is this possible? as we all no <Montreal is our countries capital when it comes to illegal sex trade... why is no one on this!! please help me i am sick and shaking and having a very hard time dealing with this!
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« Reply #5 on: August 08, 2011, 07:30:01 PM »
Wendy; if I were you, I would send this story to (The Coast news source out of Dalhousie) .... also the Chronicle, and the Ottawa Citizen. These media aren't afraid to run this story. The have shown us so. I do believe we are heading into a new realm of "reporting" as it's suppose to be.
You will find much more under the Nova Scotia Pedophiles thread.
http://www.unsolvedcanada.ca/index.php?topic=2612.0
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« Reply #6 on: August 08, 2011, 11:59:38 PM »
I'm so sorry you have to put with this. I am not sure they don't build these creeps a town all for themselves to live in.
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« Reply #7 on: August 09, 2011, 09:26:29 AM »
wendy-jo,
I am with lostinganer on this one...CALL the media and bring attention to it. Tell them your story.
This guy is a danger to have around and it always seems that he gets away with what he is doing.
I can't believe he is allowed internet connection, I thought he wasn't allowed access to internet?
If he is moving to Montreal then the Media in that area should have a heads up that he may be going to there also.
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« Reply #8 on: August 11, 2011, 06:43:08 AM »
he is not moving to montreal is is going for a short visit! he was just missing from monday afternoon till wednesday so maybe he already went! I no cops were looking for him then! but in the meantime the property manager called cops on ME!!!! because i said the neighbourg have a Right to no! cops trying to scare me by shouting Liability at me and I told cop to get bent!! now they pissed at me! this is getting totally rediculas! they are harrassing me with my tax dollars instead to the Real criminals! and lets not forget that this subhuman life form is an electronic?electrical engineere! he is expert in microwave technology and im quite sure he has knowledge to continue his disgusting habits totally under the wire so to speak! i am still Sick , it is taking a major toll on me and my health!! i need this resolved or at least some answers on the legality of posting his address!
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« Reply #9 on: August 11, 2011, 10:57:34 AM »
Actually, Wendy-jo, you never once used his name....and you posted the address YOU were superintendant at ... (just so happens that the pervie also lives there). Another thing, I think you could rightfully fight for your position as superintendant back.....I'm sure your boss broke some kind of law on firing you for speaking out with your concerns that people weren't notified.
My thinking is children deserve far more freedom that this dog. Wonder how these very cops would like it if they had a pervie in their apt. bldg. or next door?
I'd be wondering if your boss is normal....
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« Reply #10 on: August 14, 2011, 06:41:41 AM »
DRS - Sadly our justice system continues to make victims out of the victims and shelter the offenders. In this type of crime, quite often the victim does not come forward or push forward to seek justice not just for him/herself but also other victims. I know that it is not easy to sit in a courtroom and relive such moments and the defence lawyers who make it the victims fault again and again. I commend your determination and passion to see that the guilty get what he deserves. It takes a very strong and brave person to do this. I can only hope that other victims of child abuse/molestation etc, can draw inspiration from you and take a stand against their tormentor and help get these pedo's off the street and behind bars. We all have a responsibility to keep "our" children safe.
There are some lawyers that will take a percentage of your financial win in a civil suit, often requiring just a small retainer. I am from the other side of the country so I am not able to toss any names out to you.
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« Reply #11 on: August 14, 2011, 11:46:16 AM »
How did Fen MacIntosh keep his passport?
Published on May 26, 2011
Nancy King forthe Cape Breton Post
Ernest Fenwick MacIntosh gets into his lawyer’s car following a court appearance in Port Hawkesbury last year. Nancy King - Cape Breton Post
Published on May 26, 2011
Published on May 26, 2011
Nancy King Court documents shock sexual-assault victim, former consular head
PORT HAWKESBURY — For years, a man who was sexually abused as a child by Ernest Fenwick MacIntosh had one nagging question: How was his abuser able to freely travel abroad for years despite facing a Canada-wide arrest warrant and being charged with indictable offences at home?
Topics : Passport Canada , Cape Breton Post , Department of Justice , India , Canada , Port Hawkesbury RCMP
The Cape Breton Post has obtained federal court documents that answer that question, but raise a host of others in the process.
MacIntosh moved to India in 1994, a year before a complaint was filed against him with Port Hawkesbury RCMP. In 1997, after two charges were laid against him, MacIntosh’s name was placed on a passport control list which was supposed to ensure his passport would not be renewed. Despite that, he received a new passport on May 22, 1997, which has been blamed on a breakdown in communications. Passport Canada then proceeded to revoke the passport and MacIntosh filed an application for a judicial review of that decision in an effort to quash it.
In interviews since MacIntosh was extradited from India to face a few dozen sexual assault-related charges in 2007, the initial complainant, who can only be identified as DRS, has asked why a scheduled May 26, 1998 hearing to deal with the judicial review never took place. He’s asked the question of numerous officials in the intervening years, never receiving an answer.
The Cape Breton Post has obtained documents filed with the federal court in the course of the application. The trail ends on April 20, 1998, with a simple one-page notice of discontinuance containing only a few sentences.
"The applicant (MacIntosh) hereby withdraws his application for judicial review, without costs payable to either party.
"The respondent (the Attorney General of Canada) hereby consents to the applicant withdrawing his application for judicial review, without costs payable to either party."
The document was signed by MacIntosh’s lawyer, Ronald Lunau, and Department of Justice lawyer Anne Turley.
Neither DRS nor Gar Pardy, Canada’s former head of consular affairs and the person who requested that MacIntosh lose his Canadian passport, knew anything about the withdrawal of the application with the federal Crown’s consent until seeing the document obtained by the Post.
"When I really understood what that meant, I went, ‘holy shit,’" DRS says.
No subsequent application was ever filed by MacIntosh with the federal court. Because the matter was withdrawn with the Crown’s consent, the only court decision ever issued in the matter was an interim order dated Jan. 21, 1998 staying the revoking of the passport, allowing MacIntosh to remain in India and travel internationally.
"I have never seen that document before," Pardy says. "The earlier one, the court decision which sort of told the Crown, the Department of Justice lawyers or the government lawyers they had to go back and produce more evidence here, that was the last one I saw ... that puts a complete new cast on all of this.
"Normally I would know about that. That’s the kind of thing, because you’re following the case, but nobody passed that decision on to us at all over at Foreign Affairs."
The federal Department of Justice has refused to say why the Crown consented to MacIntosh withdrawing his application and whether it was at the request of Passport Canada. It also won’t say why the Crown never submitted to the courts documentation confirming the arrest warrant and criminal charges, despite a federal court justice giving it time to do so. In both instances, the department cited solicitor-client privilege. The client, in this case, was Passport Canada.
There are no court transcripts in the matter because it never made it to a formal hearing — there is only evidence that was filed with the federal courts as part of the application process.
In his originating notice of motion dated Dec. 22, 1997, MacIntosh claimed the decision to revoke his passport was invalid because it infringed upon his charter rights, and the passport office abused its discretion by misinterpreting sections of the Canadian Passport Order.
His lawyers said Passport Canada also failed to observe procedural fairness by failing to provide MacIntosh with copies of all materials available to it in reaching a decision.
They noted he needed his passport for his employment as a telecommunications specialist based in India which required travel throughout Asia, and to meet the day-to-day necessities of living in a foreign country. MacIntosh then requested copies of all documents that Passport Canada had relating to the decision to revoke the passport.
The Post has obtained a copy of a fax from Sgt. H.J. Ullock of Port Hawkesbury RCMP to Neville Wells, manager of the passport office in Ottawa dated Dec. 3, 1997 which included a copy of the Canada-wide arrest warrant and which noted MacIntosh faced one count each of indecent assault and gross indecency, confirming that Passport Canada did eventually get the documents.
"(DRS) has been dogging this one over the years and it has always puzzled me what was going on and then suddenly to see this and to see the Crown basically agreeing to his having a passport, because that’s the effect of what the Crown did," Pardy says.
Pardy says he has no other explanation for the Crown consenting to MacIntosh withdrawing his application other than "they buggered it up."
For almost the next decade, MacIntosh remained free to travel, and he subsequently received a new passport in 2002. Pardy noted there were media reports of allegations that MacIntosh had abused children in India at the time of his extradition. No charges have been laid against MacIntosh in India. He has also denied committing any crimes in Canada, saying he had consensual encounters with some complainants, when they were above the age of consent, and denying any sexual contact with others. At two trials, MacIntosh was convicted of 17 counts of indecent assault and gross indecency, and his appeal of some of those convictions, is to be heard June 8. He had two unrelated but similar convictions in the early 1980s.
"When we made the arrangements with the passport office, I wrote them a letter, a straightforward letter saying, ‘OK, let’s revoke the passport,’ they did what they had to do and then when it moved over into the federal court, that’s when things came unstuck," Pardy says. "Whether someone in the Department of Justice, that’s where the answer is if there is a real answer to this other than just lethargy or mistakes involved on the part of the lawyers involved in the Department of Justice."
Almost 15 years have passed, Pardy notes, and no answers have been forthcoming. He says he wants to try to get a human rights organization involved in the matter now, in an effort to boost its profile and to try to get some answers as to why this transpired.
"It’s a puzzle," he says.
On May 12, the Cape Breton Post submitted by email a list of questions to Passport Canada regarding the MacIntosh matter. They included:
Did Passport Canada ask the Crown to consent to MacIntosh withdrawing his application for a judicial review or agree with that decision, and if so, why?
Was there any other subsequent effort to revoke MacIntosh’s passport?
Did Passport Canada pass along to the Crown documentation that it had received confirming that MacIntosh was facing a Canadawide arrest warrant and two criminal charges? If not, why?
Several emails were exchanged over the next 12 days, as the Post sought updates on where its request for the information stood.
On Tuesday, the Post received a response from Passport Canada spokesperson Béatrice Fénelon. In it, Fénelon said due to privacy legislation the agency cannot comment on individual cases, passports or applications for passports.
The Post had also asked whether there have been any changes to the passport revocation process since the MacIntosh matter, in situations where a Canadian is facing criminal charges or an arrest warrant.
Fénelon wrote that since 2004-05, Passport Canada has taken measures to improve its ability to refuse and revoke passports. She noted they include obtaining access to the Canadian Police Information Centre database. They’ve also entered into an agreement with Correctional Services Canada to collect information on federal offenders and parolees, and reach out to federal, provincial and municipal law enforcement agencies.
The Post then asked what role, if any, the MacIntosh case played in those changes. Fénelon said the changes were part of a broader move toward increased security following the events of Sept. 11, 2001.
DRS doggedly pursued MacIntosh’s extradition and prosecution for years, and admits that due to mounting frustrations he hasn’t always taken a diplomatic approach.
"I’ve had this damn torch in my hand for years, and I’m getting a little tired," he says.
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Re: Ernest Fenwick MacIntosh - Pedophile - Nova Scotia
« Reply #12 on: August 14, 2011, 11:52:34 AM »
Lord you catch on quick LOL
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« Reply #13 on: August 15, 2011, 12:36:30 AM »
Here is one of the best articles regarding Fenwick MacIntosh (AKA Fruity Fen) molesting little boys overseas.
http://www.thestar.com/News/article/220940
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« Reply #14 on: August 15, 2011, 01:25:51 AM »
NEW DELHI–After nearly 11 years of delay and government fumbles, a Canadian man charged with sexually abusing young boys is finally being extradited to face trial.
Escorted by a trio of RCMP officers, Ernest Fenwick MacIntosh boarded a flight from India late yesterday and was expected to arrive in Canada today. A police spokesperson says the 63-year-old could make a court appearance in Nova Scotia as early as tomorrow."Once he's back on Canadian soil we'll read him his rights and handcuff him," said RCMP Cpl. Al Affleck.
MacIntosh's forced journey is the latest stage in a decade-long saga in which Canadian authorities dragged their feet, leaving the accused pedophile free to roam overseas.
RCMP first charged MacIntosh in 1995 after a former Nova Scotia man alleged he was abused as a young boy. But it wasn't until last year that Canada asked India to arrest the bearded bachelor and send him back.
Officers who arrived in New Delhi on the weekend to escort MacIntosh to Canada faced the prospect of a further delay after an Indian judge ruled the accused should undergo tests to ensure he was fit to travel.
According to his lawyer, MacIntosh has leukemia and has lost weight during his two-month incarceration in New DelhiSharat Kapoor says his client decided to leave now and seek medical attention in Canada.
For one of MacIntosh's alleged victims, news of his extradition was small solace after years of frustration.
"There's been a lot of tears and sleepless nights wondering whether this day would ever come," he said. "This is the first day in a long while when I can say I have any faith at all in our criminal justice system," he said.
The charges in Canada date to the 1970s and involve eight men who say they were fondled or forced to engage in oral sex as young boys. In some cases, the alleged victims say they were first plied with alcohol.Officials with the federal justice department and the Nova Scotia prosecution service blame one another for the delays, but can provide no clear explanation as to why the case fell through the cracks.
While the file languished on lawyers' desks in Ottawa and Halifax, MacIntosh twice renewed his Canadian passport despite regulations that should have allowed authorities to refuse or revoke the his travel document.
A sales manager with major electronics firms, MacIntosh continued to live in New Delhi's finest neighbourhoods and travel frequently for business and pleasure.
Since moving to India in 1994 and during several prior visits, MacIntosh befriended dozens of boys he met through churches, schools and casual encounters.
As revealed in the Sunday Star, two former students of Gandhi Ashram – a school in northeast India run by a Canadian priest – now say MacIntosh took them to area hotels and abused them. Banished from the campus in 1999 after the allegations of abuse surfaced, MacIntosh continued to frequent another Darjeeling school, contributing money for one boy's tuition and taking a group of male students on a holiday.
"Don't you forget I love you" says a message he apparently sent to a 14-year-old mere hours before officers came knocking at MacIntosh's apartment door.
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Her Majesty the Queen v. Ernest Fenwick MacIntosh (Supreme Court of Canada)
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34650
Her Majesty the Queen v. Ernest Fenwick MacIntosh
(Nova Scotia) (Criminal) (By Leave)
(Publication ban in case)
Keywords
Canadian charter – criminal – Right to be tried within a reasonable time (s. 11(b)), Extradition.
Summary
Case summaries are prepared by the Office of the Registrar of the Supreme Court of Canada (Law Branch) for information purposes only.
Charter of Rights and Freedoms Right to be tried within a reasonable time Extradition Section 11(b) of the Charter Whether Court of Appeal erred by imposing a stay and quashing convictions Whether trial judge misapprehended evidence Whether trial judge failed to consider collusion Whether trial judge erred with respect to credibility.
In January 1995, police received the first of many complaints of indecent assault and gross indecency alleged to have been committed by the respondent in the 1970s. The last complainant came forward in 2001. As the respondent had moved to India for work in 1994, the Crown undertook the process to have him extradited. Proceedings were started in September 1997 and a formal request for extradition was forwarded in July 2006. India agreed to the extradition on May 26, 2007. The respondent applied for a stay of proceedings on the basis that his rights under s. 11(b) of the Charter to be tried within a reasonable time had been infringed. This motion was dismissed. As some of the charges in the Indictment were severed, there were two separate trials before a judge alone. The respondent was convicted of some charges and acquitted of others. His appeal to the Court of Appeal of Nova Scotia was allowed. The convictions were quashed and the proceedings on all charges were stayed.
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EDITORIAL: Independent look at Fen MacIntosh case needed
July 11, 2013 - 4:53pm By THE CHRONICLE HERALD
Nova Scotia Justice Minister Ross Landry, left, and Martin Herschorn, director of public prosecutions, field questions after releasing a report into the case of Ernest Fenwick MacIntosh in Halifax on Wednesday. (ANDREW VAUGHAN / The Canadian Press)
Nothing in this week’s report by the Nova Scotia public prosecution service on what went wrong in their too-long prosecution of Ernest Fenwick MacIntosh was ever going to change a basic injustice.
Beginning in 1995, nine men came forward, no doubt with great difficulty, to say they’d been sexually assaulted as children long ago in Cape Breton. But due to numerous procedural delays over the years, they’ve been forever denied resolution of those allegations within our justice system. That is, and will remain, inexcusable.
What can and must be done now, however, is taking steps to ensure the unnecessary delays that led to the quashing of all charges and convictions in Mr. MacIntosh’s case are exposed and remedied.
In that light, this week’s report by Martin Herschorn, director of the public prosecution service, provides one small part — but by no means all — of what’s required.
In one sense, Mr. Herschorn’s report provides no great surprises. Nova Scotia Crown prosecutors’ heavy workloads, an issue we’ve written about for years, combined with inefficient case management, led to various delays and inattention to crucial details. System-wide, there was a lack of sufficient oversight over delayed cases or ones involving special circumstances, such as extradition requests.
We welcome the report’s common sense recommendations for tackling those problems, including better tracking and use of resources to deal with excessive delays.
Nova Scotia Attorney General Ross Landry says this report "owns up" to this province’s role in this fiasco and now Ottawa must now do the same.
The majority of the time between the laying of the final batch of charges against Mr. MacIntosh in 2001 and his first trial beginning in 2010 — a period of nine years — was eaten up by various delays in trying to extradite the former businessman from India, where he’d lived since 1994.
As Mr. Herschorn’s report lays out, both the Canadian passport office and federal Department of Justice section dealing with extraditions, the International Assistance Group (IAG), played significant roles in the delays that led to Mr. MacIntosh not being brought back to Canada until mid-2007.
Why did the IAG’s requirements seemingly change over time? Why did the passport office stop the revocation process of Mr. MacIntosh’s passport, as well as fail to inform the Crown prosecutor in Nova Scotia?
Thus far, there’s been little heard from Ottawa, other than that the Department of Justice is reviewing the Nova Scotia report, and that the IAG is reviewing its processes. That’s not nearly good enough.
As we suggested in April, the province should appoint an independent jurist to examine everything that happened in this case and make recommendations to both governments on how to avoid another such miscarriage of justice.
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SPECIAL REPORT: Courts ‘jammed’ in N.S.
February 24, 2013 - 5:16am By STEVE BRUCE Court Reporter
Veteran lawyer Joel Pink says better communication between defence lawyers and Crown attorneys would help speed up criminal cases in Nova Scotia courts. (PETER PARSONS / Staff)
Nova Scotia’s criminal court system is the second-slowest in the country, the most recent statistics show.
In 2010-11, the median amount of time for a case to make its way through the adult courts in this province was 141 days, well above the national median of 118 days.
Only Quebec was worse, at 191 days.
Statistics Canada’s annual report on adult crime also reveals that despite a 2.4 per cent drop in the volume of cases in Nova Scotia from 2009-10, the median processing time was five days longer.
The figures buttress a prominent Halifax criminal lawyer’s opinion that it takes too long for many cases to be dealt with.
"The courts, I feel, are jammed," said Joel Pink, who’s been defending clients for 43 years.
Pink said it takes eight months to a year to get a one- or two-day criminal matter heard in some provincial courtrooms in the Halifax area and at least two years for a case to reach trial in Nova Scotia Supreme Court, even if the accused is in custody.
"That’s not right," Pink said of the delay.
"It’s not right, number one, to the accused who has to serve his remand time. And it’s not fair to the victims or their families, who want to put the matter behind them."
Asked if the situation is reaching a crisis point, Pink replied, "It’s getting there. I’m very concerned that our whole system is going to crack."
Under Canadian law, everyone charged with a criminal offence is entitled to the presumption of innocence and has the fundamental right to be tried in a timely manner.
"What happens after you enter a not guilty plea is where, I think, the system is letting us down — or letting society down," Pink said.
Halifax prosecutor Rick Woodburn, president of the Canadian Association of Crown Counsel, said thousands of criminal charges have been thrown out in other provinces in recent years because of unconstitutional delays in getting to trial.
SEE ALSO: NDP on the case of clogged court system, Landry says
Woodburn fears a similar flood of delay applications is inevitable in Nova Scotia if things don’t change.
"There hasn’t been an increase in the amount of judges and staff and courtrooms in proportion to the increase in population and the amount of cases that have been going through the courts," the Crown attorney said. "That’s generally true across the country and it holds true in Nova Scotia.
"The provincial justice minister himself has said in the news that there has been a substantial increase in the complexity and amount of cases in the last five years, and we believe that to be true."
Woodburn, who’s also president of the Nova Scotia Crown Attorneys Association, said "there’s no one single thing that can fix this."
"There’s no quick fix from our point of view," he said. "If you wanted to start, you have to look at expanding the entire structure, not just one part of it.
"It’s no good to add judges if you don’t have more Crown attorneys to prosecute the cases. It’s no good to have new judges without new courtrooms. It’s no good to have new judges without new sheriffs and court clerks and more lawyers for legal aid.
"If you want to know why that hasn’t been done, count up how much money a year that is right there."
While Pink would welcome more courtrooms and the accompanying resources, he’d first like to see better use made of what’s already there.
"We have to fine-tune first," Pink said.
"We can call for more judges, we can call for more Crown attorneys, which would help, but there still have to be internal changes within the system."
Poor communication between Crown and defence lawyers leads to too many adjournments or trials falling through at the last minute, leaving valuable court time unused, Pink said. "And I’m including myself in that."
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The veteran lawyer is calling for the appointment of court co-ordinators to manage cases at the provincial court level.
"Shortly after an accused pleads not guilty, the court co-ordinator would be in touch with both the Crown and the defence to see how the matter can be resolved, if at all possible," he explained. "And two months before the trial date, they would call the lawyer and say, ‘Is your case still going ahead?’
"I firmly believe we need court co-ordinators within the system to start bringing the parties together. You can’t leave it to the judges, because they don’t have the time to do it."
Pink said that over the past few years, he has seen some positive changes in the Nova Scotia court system. He pointed to the introduction of pretrial conferences in provincial and Supreme courts, resolution conferences in Supreme Court, the launch of the provincial mental health court in Dartmouth and a pilot project for a domestic violence court in Sydney.
He’d eventually like to see a domestic violence court in the Halifax area, as well as a drug court.
"You look at the number of cases in provincial court that are drug-related," Pink said. "I know that sometimes there are hard-nosed criminal drug addicts who, it doesn’t matter what you do, are not going to get any help. But I know there are a lot of first-time offenders who have drug issues who, if they had the resources to help them, it would probably prevent them from going back into the system."
In the meantime, Pink said, speeding up the process "all boils down to communication."
"If lawyers are going to not start preparation of their cases until the night before court, then of course there can be no communication. Lawyers have to learn to be involved in case management. If you take on a file, you have to be prepared to review the material and promptly advise your client.
"If you can’t give the service to the client, don’t take the case. It’s as simple as that.
"We’re all to blame for this. We all resolve cases at the last moment. Sometimes the Crown can’t get instructions, sometimes we as lawyers can’t get instructions from our clients. But if there was someone who could force us to meet more often, I think a lot of the (problems) would be resolved."
Woodburn said court delays are discussed at almost every meeting of the national Crown counsel group.
"I can say that, generally, across the country there is a shortage of front-line prosecutors," Woodburn said.
"For us, workload has become the big issue. They’re asking us to do more with less every day, and it’s stretching our abilities to the maximum right across the country.
"Sooner or later, I’m not afraid to say, we’re going to make a mistake and there’s going to be an inquiry because of it. It’s only a matter of time. You can only stretch this resource so far."
Woodburn said there’s a reason Crown attorneys sometimes aren’t able to look at a file until the day before the case is due back in court.
"It’s not because we’re all sitting around drinking martinis," he said. "We don’t have the opportunity to pay attention to our files the way we should. Anywhere across the country, they all say the same thing — that we don’t have the ability to look at our files the way we should, and we don’t have the ability to prep the files the way we should."
Pink recalls that when he was a junior lawyer in the early 1970s, Crown attorneys would show up for arraignment court with files under their arms.
"Now we see Crown attorneys coming into court on arraignment days with transfer boxes of files," he said. "And not just one box, but sometimes two or three.
"How can you come into arraignment court with 150 files? How can you possibly be prepared?"
Pink and Woodburn both said they have already seen additional strain on the court system from the Harper government’s amendments to the Criminal Code imposing mandatory minimum jail sentences for certain gun-related, sexual, child pornography and drug offences.
"This ties the hands of Crown attorneys and judges when it comes to sentencing individuals," Woodburn said. "That, of course, is going to cause delays because more people are going to want trials.
"Accused people are less likely to plead guilty when they know for sure that they’re going to be going to jail. That causes huge issues as far as workload for us and, once again, weighing down a justice system which is already overburdened."
Pink said the mandatory minimums will encourage some accused to try to "use" the system and get their trials delayed as long as possible, knowing that "witnesses’ memories fade and witnesses disappear."
Woodburn said people like to blame defence lawyers and prosecutors whenever a case gets adjourned.
"But it’s hard to lay blame on any one facet of the justice system," he said. "It’s a systemic issue that needs to be fixed with resources, training and personnel.
"As it stands, our justice system is like a building in the middle of nowhere with no roads to it."
(sbruce@herald.ca)
ROSTER OF DELAYS
Here are some high-profile cases that have been before the courts for quite a while:
R. vs. Michael Derrick Robicheau — Robicheau brutally attacked a clerk at an Ultra-mar gas station in Dartmouth in August 2007. He was found guilty of five charges, including attempted murder and sexual assault, in June 2011. A dangerous-offender hearing is scheduled for June in Dartmouth provincial court.
R. vs. Jonathan William Ellis, Troy Allan Osbourne, Wendy Evelyn Drake and Robert Edward Moore — Police seized $1.2 million worth of marijuana during a raid in Eastern Passage in November 2009 and charged five people with possession for the purpose of trafficking. David Paul Hartlen pleaded guilty and received a conditional sentence last year, but these four are still awaiting trial in Nova Scotia Supreme Court in Halifax. A date has yet to be set.
R. vs. Ryan William Leeds — Leeds is charged with manslaughter in the January 2010 death of Nathanel Welsh after an altercation at a New Year’s party in north-end Halifax. His trial got underway last month in Supreme Court and sat for five days before it was adjourned until October after the Crown attorney became ill.
R. vs. Demarco Smith — Smith is charged with second-degree murder in the February 2010 stabbing death of Casey Downey at a house in North Preston. Smith’s trial will begin in October in Supreme Court.
R. vs. Nicholas Edward White — White is accused of second-degree murder in the November 2010 death of Joseph Walker at the apartment building where both men lived on Cobequid Road in Lower Sackville. His trial is scheduled for September in Supreme Court.
R. vs. Cody Alexander Muise — Muise is charged with first-degree murder in the December 2010 shooting death of Brandon Hatcher in Halifax. His trial will begin in April in Supreme Court.
R. vs. Trevor Zinck — The Dartmouth North MLA and three former politicians were charged in February 2011 after an RCMP investigation into the legislature’s expense scandal. Zinck’s trial on charges of theft, fraud and breach of trust will be held in June in Supreme Court. Dave Wilson and Richard Hurlburt pleaded guilty and were sentenced last year. Russell MacKinnon will stand trial in Supreme Court next month on charges of uttering forged documents, fraud and breach of trust.
R. vs. Sam Saade — The Halifax Regional Police constable was charged in April 2011 with breach of trust, uttering threats and intimidating a justice system participant, all in connection with a friend’s arrest for drunk driving in June 2010. Saade will appear in Supreme Court next month to set dates for his trial.
http://thechronicleherald.ca/novascotia/766058-special-report-courts-jammed-in-ns
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Time for a public inquiry into the Fenwick MacIntosh case
by Stephen Kimber on December 1
One hopes Nova Scotia’s prosecution service will find compelling legal grounds to appeal last week’s Nova Scotia Court of Appeal decision overturning Fenwick MacIntosh’s conviction for sexually abusing children.
The accusations are too serious and the legal issues too important not to appeal.
But whatever the outcome of the legal process—and, indeed, without waiting for its results—Ottawa needs to launch a public inquiry into what went so horribly wrong in this case. To make sure it doesn’t happen again.
The allegations against MacIntosh date back to Port Hawkesbury in the 1970s but the complainants—some as young as 10 at the time of the incidents—understandably didn’t come forward until the mid-1990s.
The RCMP formally began investigating in January 1995, five months after MacIntosh left Nova Scotia for a job in India. It’s not clear whether his departure was related to those accusations then-bubbling in the community.
In December 1995, the RCMP filed the first charges against MacIntosh.
Even though they knew he was in India, it took the Mounties a year and a half to alert Canada Customs to watch for him, and Passport Canada another year to notify MacIntosh it intended to revoke his passport, which would have made it difficult for him to work and live in India.
But a federal court judge then "temporarily" overturned Passport Canada’s decision, in part because no one but MacIntosh presented evidence at his hearing. Where was the RCMP? And why didn’t Ottawa follow up on what was supposed to be just a temporary court order?
In April 1998, Nova Scotia’s Director of Public Prosecutions asked Ottawa to ask India to send MacIntosh back to Canada for trial.
At that point, the case disappeared into yet another diplomatic and bureaucratic black hole. It took Ottawa more than five years to prepare its extradition request and another three to deliver the request the 11,000 km from Ottawa to New Delhi. Why?
While all of this was not going on, there are reports MacIntosh got his passport renewed three times and traveled on at least two occasions between India and Montreal.
An inquiry? Absolutely. Regardless of what happens with the court case, there are larger questions we need answers to. Before something similar happens again.
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http://beyondborders.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/bb-newsletter-fall07-final.pdf
Ensuring Global Justice for Children
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Issue No. 11 Fall 2007
CHILD SEX TOURISM - THE GLOBAL SPOTLIGHT ON CANADA
Will Canada’s Child Sex Tourism Legislation Survive a Constitutional Challenge?
The Third World Congress on the Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children will be held in
Brazil in 2008. The Canadian justice system will be in the global spotlight due to four cases
which activists for children the world over are monitoring.
Kenneth Klassen
- A 56-year-old Burnaby British Columbia man faces 35 charges under federal
child sex tourism laws. Klassen’s charges include sexual interference, sexual touching, procuring
and making child pornography. It is alleged the 35 offences were committed in Cambodia,
Colombia and the Philippines between 1998 and 2002. Klassen has launched a constitutional
challenge to Canada’s child sex tourism legislation slated for July 2008. Members of the Beyond
Borders legal team will intervene to save the legislation.
Christopher Neil
- Neil, from British Columbia, was arrested in October 2007 in Thailand
ending an intensive international manhunt. Neil abruptly left his teaching job in South Korea
and flew to Thailand after Interpol digitally unscrambled 200 images of a pedophilia suspect
sexually abusing Asian children. After those images aired, police say three Thai youths came
forward alleging they were paid to perform oral sex. At the time, the boys were 9, 13 and 14.
Neil’s family is asking Canadian officials to bring Neil home to face charges in Canada.
Beyond
Borders disagrees.
Ernest Fenwick MacIntosh
- After years and years of Canadian government fumbling and
disinterest, accused child sexual abuser, Ernest Fenwick MacIntosh was extradited from India in
June 2007 to stand trial in Canada in connection with 43 charges of indecent assault involving 8
boys under 14 at the time. The charges go back to the 1970s in Nova Scotia, Canada. MacIntosh’s
Canadian victims have suffered years of frustration as incredibly, while MacIntosh’s extradition
file languished on the desks of federal justice officials and Nova Scotia prosecutions, the Canadian
government was renewing his passport so he could stay abroad. Presently two boys in India are
claiming he took them to hotels and abused them. His trial on the Canadian charges begins in
December.
Orville Frank Mader
- In October 2007 an arrest warrant was issued by Thai police in the case
of Orville Frank Mader. Mader faces allegations he participated in the abuse of an eight-year-old
Thai boy who was kidnapped from a shopping mall. Thai police are investigating allegations he
may have abused at least three other boys. Mader had been teaching English overseas at various
places in southeast Asia. In a strategic move, Mader fled home to Canada. He was arrested on
an immigration warrant and granted bail in Canada posting a $1000.00 surety. Although Thai
authorities are making conflicting statements regarding the extradition of Mader back to Thailand,
it is Beyond Borders view that he should be sent back to face the allegations in the country
where the alleged child victim(s)live
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Posted by Kathy Shaw at 8:02 AM
Jehovah's Witness leaders ...
UNITED KINGDOM
Daily Mail
Jehovah's Witness leaders ordered to give evidence in sex scandal trial after claiming they had a 'duty to God not to breach confidence'
By ANNA EDWARDS
Church elders refused to comment on a child abuse scandal because they had a 'duty to God' to keep the sex attacker's confession a secret, a court heard.
Jehovah Witness ministerial servant Gordon Leighton admitted sexually abusing a child when he was confronted with allegations before elders at his church,Newcastle Crown Court heard.
But during the official police investigation the 53-year-old, who hit the headlines in the 1990s when his wife Yvonne, 28, died after refusing a blood transfusion after childbirth on religious grounds, denied any illegal wrongdoing.
When detectives asked elders Simon Preyser, Harry Logan and David Scott to make statements about the confession, all three refused and said what they had heard was confidential.
The elders knew about the admissions for three years, but refused to cooperate with the criminal investigation, the court heard.
Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:59 AM
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Yeshiva College principal delayed acting...
AUSTRALIA
NEWS.com.au
Yeshiva College principal delayed acting on teacher David Kramer who has molested students, County Court told
Shannon Deery
From: Herald Sun
July 17, 2013
THE principal of a Jewish college refused to report a teacher who admitted molesting students to police because he was concerned for his welfare, a court has heard.
Rabbi David Kramer, 52, pleaded guilty to molesting four young boys while teaching at ultra-orthodox Yeshiva College in the 1990s before fleeing to the US where he was jailed for further offending.
A County Court plea hearing heard today the father of two victims made a formal complaint to then principal Rabbi Abraham Glick who refused to take immediate action.
"The accused admitted touching some of the children but claimed that it was initiated by the complainants," prosecutor Brett Sonnet told the court.
"Rabbi Glick advised (the victim’s father) that he did not intend to immediately suspend the accused from teaching because he was concerned for his welfare."
Posted by Kathy Shaw at 8:40 AM
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Mira Sorvino Gives Empassioned Speech Against Child Sex Trafficking During
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MOVIE- HUMAN TRAFFICKING
Human Trafficking Movie Part 1
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Human Trafficking is a television mini-series about an agent going undercover to stop an organization from trafficking people, and shows the struggles of three trafficked women. It premiered in the United States on Lifetime Television on October 24, 2005 and later aired on CityTV in several major Canadian markets. It starred Mira Sorvino, Donald Sutherland , Rémy Girard and Robert Carlyle.
Human Trafficking Movie Part 2
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Human Trafficking Movie Part FINAL
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