Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - April 27, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba Horror humiliation of secret sin leave scars that never fade by Maureen Brosnahan and Greg Bannister in the last four years reports of incest and sexual abuse involving Chil Dren in Winnipeg have tripled. There were 36 cases of incest and sexual abuse reported to City police last year up from 11 in 1977. But these Are Only the documented cases. No one knows the real extent of the problem. A number of years ago there weren t any cases of sexual said Brenda Gravenor a social worker at children s Hospital. We did t look for it and there was t chid abuse part two but when it is uncovered there s pain embarrassment and often broken families. The scars last and the wounds do not heal easily. Not Long ago Louise 35, not her real name discovered that her husband had been sexually abusing their 14-year-old daughter for the last seven years. I was shocked and said the Mother of two girls. I could not believe my husband had done it. Never in my wildest dreams could i imagine that would happen. Still in my mind i know it s True but it is so hard to Louise first Learned of the relation ship a few months ago when her Daugh Ter confided in a relative who con Vinced the girl to Tell her Mother. We both started to cry. We were shocked. We could not believe it began when the girl was seven. Her father would Call her into the bedroom when no one was Home. At first it was just to scratch his Back then he began having her undress for him and made her watch while he would masturbate. By the time she was 10, her father was forcing her to engage in Oral sex. Like Many other cases of sexual abuse involving family members the Young girl was warned this was a big secret. She kept that secret for seven years. Sometimes Louise wishes she had never discovered the secret. Spice that night her family has split has had to take a full time Job and has faced hours with counsellors police and others. The pressure became so great she took an overdose of pills. Sometimes i could t even think she said. It s like being two or three people at the same time. I Don t hate she said of her husband. We were married 16 years. It s hard to say you Don t love him Louise s Case is typical of Many that Are now coming to Light said Gravenor who spends More than half her time on sexual abuse cases. Of the 36 sexual abuse cases investigated by police last year 27 people were charged with sex offences against children. Already in the first three months of 1981, police have investigated 15 sexual abuse cases in the City and have charged 11 people. We Don t need to look to other cities for said . Dave Allen of the child abuse unit. What we re read ing is happening Here in Winnipeg. We be had some real Young he said. We be had very Young babies with gonorrhoea and we be never been Able to establish where it came children s Hospital gynaecologist or. Lorna Grant sees about five cases a month of children involved in sexual see Hurt Page 4 Cloudy tonight 3 sunny tomorrow 1 1 Winnipeg free press monday april 27, 1981 109no Sun rises . Sets . Moon rises . Sets . Final 200 for Home delivery 957-0550 or 942-2161 classified 956-2330 Giscard confronts old enemy by Hal Piper the Baltimore Sun Paris president Valery Giscard d Estwing and socialist Leader Francois Mitterrand led first round voting yesterday and advanced to a Runoff elec Tion in two weeks to determine the presidency of France. Their meeting will be a rematch of 1974, when Giscard won his first seven year term in the Elysee Palace by less than two per cent of the votes cast polls suggest the results could be As close again this time and some polls have shown Mitterrand narrowly in the Lead. Yesterday s first round vote however showed weaknesses in both front runners. Giscard polled 28.9 per cent some four Points Short of his first round showing seven years ago. The result was interpreted widely As Lack of enthusiasm for the tall patrician 55 year old president. Must get Chirac bloc to win a new term Giscard will have to pick up As a bloc the votes Given to the mayor of Paris Jacques Chirac who presented himself As a non Gisclar Dian alternative to left Wing Rule and exceeded Early expectations by Garner ing 17.6 per cent of the vote. Chirac once a Giscard ally who broke angrily with the president in 1976, coyly refused to endorse Giscard last night. He said he would announce his recommendation today for the Sec Ond round vote. Mitterrand 64, has lost two previous bids for the presidency. After winning 26.2 per cent of the vote yesterday his task in the Runoff election is exactly that faced by Giscard to win the undivided support of a divided voting bloc. France s political left is split Between socialist and communist and the communist Leader Georges Marchais is smarting from his party s worst Post War electoral showing per cent yesterday. French election analysts said a socialist presidency underscoring the communists position As outsiders on the French political left May be the last thing Marchais wants. The communist Leader blamed his showing the first time his party fell below 20 per cent in a National elec Tion on the sordid manoeuvres of president Giscard whom he accused of playing Ping Pong with Mitterrand. His party will meet this week to decide How to instruct its supporters for the second round vote. Jim free press flying like an Eagle Ami Kotler 10, had his Eagle Kite soaring yesterday As he and Many others enjoyed Kite Day held by City Rouge Parks and recreation Branch at fort Rouge Leisure Centre. Court to determine Canada s destiny by Michael Doyle Winnipeg free press Ottawa Canada s new Constitution which will determine much of the country s future direction will be placed in the hands of nine men Tomor Row. Whether the nine justices of the supreme court of Canada will accept or reject the Federal plan to Patriate the 1867 British North America act and entrench a charter of rights is far from certain. The court will address itself to three questions d whether the Patria Tion Resolution will affect Federal provincial relations and How. D whether there is a constitutional convention requiring provincial con sent before changes Are made to the British North America act. D whether provincial consent is needed to Amend the Constitution. Prime minister Trudeau says he will drop the proposal if the justices Rule against him. On the other hand several premiers have said they will ignore the court ruling if it goes in Trudeau s favor but the reality is that the Constitution will then become a shoo in during final votes in the Canadian and British parliaments. The nine justices Are As mixed up a combination of conflicting roots Ideo Logies and personalities As the country itself. Six were appointed by prime minis Ter Trudeau one was chosen by former prime minister Joe Clark and two by former prime minister John Diefenbaker. But among the six appointed by tru Deau three Are from the West and one Quebec Justice is both new and consid ered a swing voter. The court itself has been conserva Tive in most judgments contrasting sharply with . Courts. But on major Federal provincial cases it has most often come Down on the Federal Side. The liberals have defended this re sult by pointing out that the supreme court has generally ruling on specifics of the British North America act which was designed to favor a Strong Federal government. This time they re going to decide whether the new Federal proposal is Legal and there is debate in judicial circles about whether the court must keep itself to the narrow Legal question or take into account the general Situa Tion of the country and its various conflicting forces. And then there is self interest. The justices have had the constitutional debate which some politicians say is a purely political Issue dropped on their Doorstep for what will clearly be a painful if historic Deci Sion. Some justices May resent this. And if the constitutional plan is finally passed the very Power and influence the reality of the court will have changed. The supreme court will Sud Denly become much More powerful As it is called upon to Rule on a myriad of expected cases. Like american courts a court ruling see court Page 4 police arrest Irish faster s supporters Belfast a police arrested 20 prominent supporters of Ira hunger striker Bobby Sands Early today after a Day of rioting in Belfast yesterday. Sinn fein the Irish Republican army s political front said those arrested were senior members of the National a Block committee which is organizing a Campaign backing Sands crusade for political prisoner status for Ira convicts. A police spokesman confirmed the arrests but would Only say the detainees were being questioned about their the sinn fein spokesman said Tom Cahill the. Committee chairman and leaders of committees in Lurgan Armagh and county Londonderry were among those arrested. Sands in the 58th Day of his hunger strike was reported sinking toward death. His weight was reported to have dropped to 95 pounds from 155. Spokes men for the Irish Republican army said he nearly died saturday night after a heart attack but refused medi Cal help. A British source said Sands was in extreme slipping in and out of consciousness. Sight hearing impaired he appears to be sinking quite said the source. His eyesight and hearing Are seriously Sands family said prison authorities have advised them to stay by the Telephone. Family members visited him yesterday and said he was extremely the National a Block Cor Smittee the group whose leaders were arrested overnight appealed yesterday to Irish prime. Minister Charles Haughey to intervene on behalf of the 27-year-old guerrilla who was elected this month to the British parliament after campaigning from his prison Hospital bed. The committee said it believed the Irish Leader could Force prime minister Margaret Thatcher to agree to the demand of Sands and three other Hun Ger strikers in the Maze by threatening to expel Britain s ambassador to the Irish Republic Leonard Figg. Appeals to Haughey another Appeal to Haughey came from Owen Carron who managed the election Campaign that won Sands a seat in the British parliament on april 9. He also called on the prime minister to demand of Thatcher that she Grant the prisoners demands. Sands will be dead if Charles Haughey delays any Carron there was no immediate response from Haughey who was reported under increasing pressure from his own Cabi net to take some personal initiative. He said during the weekend that urgent efforts to solve the crisis should continue. Sands is serving a 14-year term for gun Law violations arising from a shoot out with police. The status of political prisoner would allow him and the others to Wear their own clothes instead of prison uniforms exempt them from prison work and associate freely among themselves within the prison. Woman president no help in pensions the Manitoba Chambers of com Merce yesterday elected its first woman president and then passed a Resolution calling for smaller pensions for women. Rita Roeland an Imperial life Assurance co. Of Canada underwriter was elected president without opposition. She had been first vice president. But yesterday afternoon the organization unanimously adopted a Winni Peg chamber of Commerce recommendation opposing equal annuity payments for men and women be cause of the inherent discrimination that would be Gerry Reimer Winnipeg chamber president said because women live longer they would receive More than a Man from a pension plan. It also Means it would Cost an employer More Money if the employer paid into the plan. The recommendation passed without further debate. Roeland 35, said in an interview she did not vote on the matter because she is president and would abide by the wishes of the major Ity. However she said she would have opposed the recommendation because a retired woman s Cost of living is no less than a Man s. Roeland said she does not expect the fact that groups such As the Manitoba club and Carleton club do not admit women will pose a problem for her because i have never found being a woman a hardship in i Don t care if they Don t want me. There Are other clubs that do admit in a luncheon speech yesterday Roeland said the Manitoba Chambers plan to launch a major Campaign against vandalism similar to the Winnipeg chamber s Campaign against shoplifting. She said the problem exists every where and there seems to be no deter rent Force. Businessmen should t confine their activities to reporting damage to their insurance company because All that Means is that insurance premiums will Rise she said. Roeland of he Des Chenes is a graduate of Gordon Bell High school and has taken economics and political studies courses at the University of Manitoba. 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