John Challenges Hooking Laws

Radio Haney Vandalism, in one form or another. p6 Longtime businesses plan for future. p39 Jobless father of four wins $6.5 million in Lotto 6/49. THE NEWS See p5 www.mapleridgenews.com Friday, October 1, 2010 · Serving Maple Ridge & Pitt Meadows · est. 1978 · 604-467-1122 · 50¢ Child porn charges laid in rave rape None yet though related to sexual assault by Monisha Martins staff reporter Charges have been laid against a teenage boy accused of taking photographs of a sex assault at a Pitt Meadows rave. The 16-year-old boy made his fi rst appearance in Port Coquitlam Pro- vincial Court Wednesday morning on one count each of producing child pornography and distributing child pornography. He is accused of using his cell phone to photograph a 16-year-old girl being raped by several boys at a party held on a farm at 12993 Harris Road, Sept. 10, while a group of at least 12 people stood by and watched. The photographs were then posted on the Internet and distributed to hundreds of teens via Facebook. James Maclennan/THE NEWS Police described the photographs as “graphic” and “disgusting.” Fall harvest See Charges, p12 Workers at a Golden Eagle Cranberry Farm on 224 Street in Maple Ridge harvest cranberries after flooding a field on Tuesday. John challenges hooking laws Lawyer says Ontario hurt,” said Ray Chouinard, who who uses the services of prosti- lated prostitutes’ rights because is representing Leslie Blais, a tutes. it made their work more danger- ruling could help man who was arrested in an un- Blais was arrested in May 2006 ous. dercover sting targeting the sex in a sting conducted by the Ridge Chouinard said his client de- by Monisha Martins trade in downtown Maple Ridge Meadows RCMP. cided to fi ght the case because he staff reporter four years ago. The 45-year-old man tried to once worked in a downtown Van- Blais, a construction foreman, pick up a female RCMP offi cer couver restaurant frequented by believes prostitution laws con- who was posing as a prostitute. sex trade workers. The lawyer for a Maple Ridge tribute to the physical harm, He was subsequently charged “He saw all kinds of violence,” man challenging the constitu- abuse and murder of sex trade with communicating for the pur- Chouinard said. tionality of Canada’s solicitation workers and is challenging their poses of prostitution. “He saw women beaten nearly ong-gun and painful laws is applauding an Ontario constitutionality under of the Instead of pleading guilty or at- to death, johns being pulled out court decision that struck down Canadian Charter of Rights and tending “john school” like most of their car, beaten and robbed. It Lmemories for Shirley three major anti-prostitution Freedoms. of the other men arrested in the was just the Wild West. He’s try- Anderson. See story, p3 laws on Tuesday. It is the fi rst such challenge sting, Blais decided to challenge ing to put an end to it.” “It’s going to help. It cannot brought forward by a john, a man the solicitation law, saying it vio- See Prostitution, p11 Index Opinion 6 Radio Haney 6 Parenting 16 Home&gardening 19 Acts of Faith 35 Business 39 Scoreboard 42 Long-gun and painful memories Story by Phil Melnychuk Registry helps he carton of women’s safety pre-rolled The work of the people who Players try to help women escape T violent marriages is easier cigarette wrappers thanks to the Canadian sits on a tray next Firearms Registry. Because having access to to the TV, while fi rearms is the fi fth most- another plastic box important risk factor coun- sellors use when assessing contains more blank the potential for violence. wrappers in another When a woman leaves a violent relationship, police container on the are usually involved and they coffee table. can tell workers at Cythera Transition House Society Shirley Anderson knows whether the ex has access to she smokes too much and is about to try a third quit- guns, said society executive- smoking session. director Teresa Green. But she’s opened the sun- “I believe access to guns is deck door on her fi fth-fl oor one of the fi fth highest risk apartment on 224th Street in factors.” Maple Ridge and she’s lit a The top fi ve factors used candle for a visitor to make in assessing the danger a it more comfortable to listen woman is in: to her story. • abuser’s prior criminal “You know something?” record and previous domestic she says. “I never smoked until it incidents; happened. James Maclennan/THE NEWS • abuser’s substance abuse; “Never had a cigarette till Shirley Anderson keeps a photo on her youngest son’s last school photo in her apartment living room. • abuser’s mental health; after it happened.” • is the abuser actively look- It happened on a Grey Cup and took her down to the po- speak about any form of its hunting rifl es are for hunting detail a friend agreed on at ing for her and does he know weekend in Edmonton more lice station to tell her what dismantling. The issue was and not killing people and the funeral. the location of the transition than three decades ago, in happened. settled two weeks ago when for peaceful purposes only, But the marriage wasn’t house? November 1979. Her husband had taken his the Liberals and NDP com- Anderson says they can be perfect before that either. • access to weapons. After a struggling mar- .308 hunting rifl e, she thinks bined to keep the registry in turned against loved ones. She never loved him – only Often, because the woman riage, Shirley had fi nally left it was a Winchester, and shot place and defeat a Conserva- “We had fi rearms in the married him because she still loves her partner, or her husband for the third and killed their son, who was tive bill to disband it. house and he was using thought she could fi nd no and fi nal time the previous asleep on the chesterfi eld. For Anderson, registration them for hunting too, and one else, though he was a because she’s afraid for her March and she had taken Then he turned the rifl e on of rifl es is just a common look what happened. These, good provider. life, she won’t always tell her 17-year-old son Erwin himself. sense step that could reduce too, can kill people if you’re “The only thing that was police or staff if her abuser with her. She was tired of “It was done at 5 p.m.” the number of shootings and in the wrong state of mind.” good out of that marriage has a handgun or rifl e. So the the mental and physical While she wasn’t living in spare others what she went She points out that her hus- was my two children.” registry would provide that abuse from her husband and the house at the time, she through, although she rec- band had two hunting rifl es, One night, before she left information – assuming the tired of seeing her eldest son frequently stopped by to pick ognizes, it can’t stop all trag- a .22 and the .308. her husband, he had put one husband registered the gun. smacked around. up her son. Even the day of edies. “They both had scopes,” of his rifl es at their bedside “It is an important thing.” But she had left her young- the killing, she had called her The outcry against the she says. as a warning, but it never The registry seems to be er son Ricky, 6, who had just husband, asking if she could long-gun registry and the de- He used to hunt deer and dawned on her that he would working, Green added. started Grade 1, with her dad see Ricky. He refused. mands to have it dismantled moose around Whitecourt, use them against her son. in the west Edmonton bun- “Thank God we didn’t walk bother her. “It just appalled about an hour northwest of In fact, during the fi ve or Though she couldn’t imme- galow because the two were in and fi nd him,” she says. me.” Edmonton. six calls police made in re- diately cite sources, statistics close and dad never spent After the investigation, Ed- sponse to arguments in the show that domestic shoot- his wrath on his youngest. monton police even returned house, they were never once ings have dropped since the “This is my little guy. He the weapons to her, a move told there were rifl es in the registry was implemented was six years old when that “With no registry, they didn’t know about it.” that today still puzzles her. house. in 2001. picture was taken, that was According to a story in the “With no registry, they “There has been a drop when he was killed,” Shirley Shirley Anderson now defunct magazine Al- didn’t know about it.” down. The stats are down says as she hands over an ag- berta Report, her husband’s That was years before the with the registry.” ing photo of a tousle-haired serious problems started Canadian Firearms Registry People often argue that boy. after a fall from scaffolding was created in 2001. With the “He’s my little angel – blue- Despite the passage of 30 People argue that a gun on a construction site. That registry in place, police now a gun registry won’t eyed, blond-headed little an- years, the pain has never, registry doesn’t keep guns shattered his legs and in- would know before they even aff ect criminals who use gel.” left and Anderson, now us- out of the hands of crimi- creased his depression.

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