June 1 : Historic day for Canada...but not for NY TIMES or CNN
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Topic: News on News
Over 7 years ago , on December 13th 2002...CBS news reported on how
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Over 7 years before that on
March 17, 1995 the New York Times reported in an article entitled
on the differences in rape-shield laws in Canada and the U.S., these laws prevent defendants from using the past sexual history of victims in court.
The news item states how the hopes of the unfairly accused, the victims right not to re-victimized twice and the rights of the woman to have enough evidence to bear scrutinty .....all fell under the same protective umbrella of protection and yet but also how the case of one Bishop Hubert O'Connor of British Columbia, Canada, charged in 1992 and imprisoned in 1996 for sexually assaulting two teenage girls as principal of a boarding school (one of the 19 mentioned in the CBS article) became the catalyst for change as the defense fo the women argued all the way to the Supreme Court of Canada against the release of the women's confidential academic, employment, medical and psychological records for use in a lower-Court.
(Basically they wanted to have it thrown out, arguing that the Crown has not done its duty in releasing files to the defense. Hubert had insisted the sex was consensual.)
From what I can see here, for these the accused was never charged or punished.
I suspect that the confidentiality laws had something to do with.(PDF)
Its interesting that the confidentiality laws differ in the US, and how it appears that the case of two young girls who matured in life to face their sexual oppressor were poised on the precipice to change how files are dealt with.
Any why should they not be. The fact that CBS did not mention that the girls were "native indian" and attended a government funded "residential" school doesnt alter the facts of their case.
But this is Prince George, a town wanna be city where even Provincial Court Judges are particapatory in sexual and vicious assaults on native aboriginal girls.
" I admit it"
So its also interesting on how document shredding became the answer whereas in the U.S., (or at least in some parts of it) you would hold no such worries when talking to your confidante.
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At the time of this blog entry neither the New York Times nor the Cable News Network had any interest in coverage of this story
Although the Times did report in March 7, 2004 that
"No comprehensive study has yet measured the full damage wrought by the schools."
Looks like all that is about to change. So how about some reporting from the NY TIMES and CNN?
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note: former Judge William Ramsay is also dead.
In the saddest collorary to this troubling tale, his teenaged victim died in her early 20's suffering from complications from hepatitis.
Posted by mach1231
at 11:44 AM PDT
Updated: Sunday, June 1, 2008 2:43 PM PDT
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