Why the Dewar Rape Ruling Is Truly Shocking
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/10 22 2011 / 03 volume 65 Why the DeWar rape ruling is truly shocking NEWS page 3 Tension aT The U of W Don't holD your breath for an easy resolution NEWS pages 2 & 5 COMMENTS page 9 Under pressUre local artist explores unDerWater photography With h2oohhh arts page 20 02 News The UniTer March 10, 2011 www.UniTer.ca LOOKING for listings? Cover image we can only assume that CaMPUS & COMMUNITY LISTINGS aND they're young and listen to Do you have what it takes VOLUNTEEr OPPOrTUNITIES page 6 a lot of Rage Against the MUSIC page 12, An image from H2Oohhh to be a model? FILM & LIT page 14, BY RODNEY BRAUN Machine. GaLLErIES & MUSEUMS pages 14 & 15, See story on page 20. 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Berthelette, clayton winter, alex Freedman, Shannon Sampert, Brian Gagnon, Kelly ross, caroline Fisher, Ben wickstrom and Fabian Suarez-amaya. For inquiries e-mail: [email protected] News 03 www.UniTer.ca March 10, 2011 The UniTer Rape survivor decries judge’s controversial decision Cindy Titus Sherri-Lee chiarot, a rape survivor, is outraged at the recent ruling by Justice robert Dewar. was my fault.” and as hurtful as it was to the complainant, experts claim judge It wasn’t until four years later, when she cannot be said to be only self-gratification. TranScript of raPe caSe ShOwS ignored precedent started attending college, that Chiarot real- It had the characteristics of a clumsy Don ThaT vicTiM FeareD for her LiFe ized the rape was never her fault. Juan. I don’t condone it, but it simply does established long before “I will forever have to live a life of dis- not fit the archetypal cases cited.” DUrinG aTTacK trust,” she said, adding that she finds it diffi- Among the “archetypal cases” cited was By reviewing the sentencing transcript of a contro- mandatory minimum cult to form lasting relationships and is still R v. Sandercock from the Alberta Court of versial decision by Manitoba court of Queen’s Bench sentencing plagued by emotional triggers, such as the Appeal in 1985. Justice robert Dewar in a Thompson rape case, The attacker’s name. Sandercock established three years of Uniter has learned that the crown submitted evi- Chiarot never took her attacker to court jail time as the “guideline” for serious sex- dence suggesting that the victim feared for her life because she had no physical evidence of the ual assault “assuming a mature accused with ethan Cabel during the violent and extensive attack. crime and did not want to relive the experi- previous good character and no criminal “your lordship did find on the facts that there was beat reporter ence, minute by minute, in a formal court record.” a comment from her asking if he planned to kill her,” of law. Rhodes was of previously good character said Sheila Seesahai, the crown prosecutor in the She believes that Justice Dewar has done a and had no criminal record, both of which case, adding that rhodes continued with his sexual Manitoba Court of Queen’s Bench Justice great disservice to Canadian women by fur- were considered by Justice Dewar in sen- assault even after the victim expressed physical pain. Robert Dewar’s decision to give Kenneth ther dissuading rape survivors from coming tencing. in sentencing rhodes to a two-year conditional Rhodes a conditional sentence for raping a forward. Allison Fenske, a lawyer at Winnipeg law sentence, Justice Dewar accepted the facts submit- woman in Thompson in 2006 has sparked “(His decision) takes everything the jus- firm Thompson Dorfman Sweatman LLP, ted by the crown. international controversy. tice system has done around rape back mul- believes that Dewar not only ignored cur- “i accept the evidence of the complainant (victim) His decision, whereby he characterized tiple years,” she said. rent practice but also evaded the Sandercock that when the accused laid the complainant down Rhodes as a “clumsy Don Juan” overcome precedent in granting Rhodes a lenient sen- Moving backward by the side of the road, he did not enquire whether by inviting circumstances, has prompted tence. she wished to continue,” said Justice Dewar in sen- his removal from any further sexual assault Justice Dewar sentenced Kenneth Rhodes “There is a long-established starting point tencing. cases, an appeal by the Crown, complaints to a two-year conditional sentence despite of a three-year minimum imprisonment “There was no similar enquiry after she com- to the Canadian Judicial Council and, most the Crown’s insistence that he deserved three for crimes of serious sexual assault and that plained of being hurt by his … penetration,” he added. recently, his removal from a Winnipeg man- years of jail time. Alberta precedent has been recognized by in the crown’s submission to the court, Seesa- slaughter case. As of 2007, three years in jail is the man- our own Manitoba Court of Appeal,” she hai described the extensive and violent nature of the However, it was the inclusion of the vic- datory minimum sentence legislated by Par- said.