Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - April 9, 1984, Winnipeg, Manitoba Sexual assaults on women up sharply by Kevin Prokosh the number of women who have been sexually assaulted in Winnipeg has More than doubled during the first three months of 1984 compared with the same period last according to police acting crime George Clavelle said yesterday the police department is very concerned about the Sharp in crease in the incidence of sexual at tacks on City women this he said there appears to be no major reason Why 91 women already have been sexually assaulted this compared to 40 during the same Quarter last Clavelle said the most common stories police get from sexual assault victims Are that they had being hitch hiking or had accompanied a Man they had just met in a bar or at a party to their Home or his the lowest number of sexual attacks take place in the Winter police in 1983 there were 14 in 15 in february and 11 in but this year there were 1 women sexually assaulted in 42 if february and 32 last Many of the attacks have been a deaf woman was sexually assaulted for More than seven hours last month by two men who took turns pressing a knife to her Throat while the other had sexual three one aged 14 and two were charged in february after a woman was sexually assaulted and left in critical condition with severe head one woman had her head shaved and he Back burned with a cigarette lighter before she was sexually assaulted in its a pretty major increase but in Sharon coordinator of the sexual assault pro Gram at our statistics show that last year there was a 62percent increase in the number of reports made to us As com pared to Whiz kid foils computer Cloudy tonight 3 showers tomorrow 12 Winnipeg tree press april 1984 sets Moon rises sets 250 Home delivery 95705sft classified 9562330 second class mail registration number 0286 Liberal hopefuls split on pet Ocanada Sale up photo Dom Gerrard Winnipeg press Donald Johnston chats with a Young Liberal at a pager firms claim its plans phone user policy by Babcox paging company owners claim the Manitoba Telephone system is plan Ning a new phone user policy based on How Long subscribers stay its has applied to the Public utilities Board of Manitoba to charge two cents for each Call to paging services and eight cents per minute of phone line use by a person calling a the implications of what its is trying to do Are just Sid president of Winnipeg paging company vip communications we believe they Are using us to Experiment with new pricing policies which have much broader Imp Lica paging companies now pay the same monthly rate As other businesses and there is no per Call under the its charges for each Call and minute of phone line use would apply Only to paging but Ritter said its could extend them to cover any number of special phone line users from Home computer opera tors to open line radio but its spokesman Glenn Schnei Der said the charges Are necessary to cover the Cost of new paging services it wants the Board to the Telephone company is planning to introduce direct dial pagers and to expand another paging called Over dial both of which do not require an most paging services in Manitoba now work with live operators who take phone messages and relay them Over the air to direct dial allows a person to phone see pager Page 4 Liberal leadership by Gary Hunter two Federal Cabinet ministers vying for the leadership of the Liberal party split this weekend on the future of the Crow owned Oil Petrovan one wants to sell off Petro Canadas service stations and the other saying such a move would be economic development minister Donald Johnston cited Petro Canadas retail division As a Crown corporation that might be sold to private Enterprise to free up Public Money for education and investments in dead wrong employment minister John Roberts said i think Hes dead pet Ocanada was formed to allow the government to have a window on the Oil Industry and that requires a fully integrated company explore refining and both candidates made the comments during Campaign stops in Winnipeg during the Johnston had said he sell Petro Canadas assets in exploration and i think pet Ocanada is involved in too Many significant areas of exploration and development that Are of importance to the thrust of the National Energy a Montreal tax said he would favor a franchising of the service stations so they would remain under the pet Ocanada Best of both worlds that would be having the of both in the interest of the Canadian he Johnston said he would look to the possibility of Selling Eldorado min Tel Globe and i would be very glad to see Cana Dair i have concern with High risk manufacturing ventures without the discipline of the Bottom Johnston Roberts agreed with the desirability of Selling off the govern ments executive Jet business that has Cost taxpayers More than billion since being taken Over in the two men were in the province to meet potential delegates the june leadership constituency meetings to select Manitoba delegates begin this week with a meeting wednesday in Winni about 25 people showed up at a see liberals Page 4 court denies Mother Access to child by Pamela Fayerman a 2vryear Legal Wrangle Over the adoption of a Manitoba Indian girl by a no Indian couple has ended with a judge ruling the natural Mother cannot ask for Justice John Scollin of Mani Toba court of Queens Bench has shut the door on further efforts by Linda an ojibway language to gain Access adopted by Allan and Sandra the judge called Woods persistent court applications an abuse of the rights of the adoptive parents and said the who live near should not be subjected to further costly and intolerable disruption of their Day today living and interviewed the Racines said they were ecstatic about the judges ruling because it Means they May finally live As a family in its been a painful ordeal for All of the Strain on Leticia has been Racine we have no objection to Leticia making up her own mind when Shes older about who Shell want to live Allan Racine but for our Home is where Shes Hap Woods could not be reached for com her Vic said he comment until he had studied the the custody Battle began in 1982 when Woods attempted to abduct Leti Cia from the school she was attending and also from the Racine a judge in Brandon later granted Woods Access to the child for three hours a seven visits took place before another judge in Winnipeg granted the adoption to the Racines and dismissed Woods application for when the Case went to Manitoba court of the judges set aside the adoption and made the child a temporary Ward of the with physical custody to the last the supreme court of Canada reinstated the adoption by the Racines and did not allow Access by undaunted by the decision of the country highest Woods applied to the Queens Bench court for an order compelling psychiatric and so Cial worker reports on judge Scollin said no one doubts Woods affection for her but the effect of the supreme court Deci Sion is Tradeau teamwork prime minister Trudeau gets a helping hand from son while trying to list 40 Kilos at a weekend Amateur weightlifting exhibition in the Trudeau a fundraiser for the Eastern Ontario childrens Cas Erre abuse Case disciplinary action not recommended by ombudsman by Larry Hill Manitoba ombudsman has found that the childrens Aid society of East Ern Manitoba and one of its social workers erred by failing to investigate a report of serious child Gordon Earles heavily edited summary of a confidential re port to the Manitoba government says evidence tends to support the belief that the social worker received information firsthand re possible sexual abuse from a victimized child in March after a nine month study into the childrens Aid society inac Tion in the face of the reported abuse which continued for years and included the rape of an 11yearold girl and the buggery of her teenage Brothers by their Stepfather Earle has not re commended disciplinary others can make mistakes too and probably have in this sensitive area of child Earle said in a weekend Community services minister Muriel Smith said in an interview that she has accepted Earles report and plans to implement its opposition Community services critic Bud Sherman said Earle had been eminently fair to All parties con Sherman said Smith should conduct a Complete review of How Well her department and child welfare agencies protect Young Earle mistakes made obviously in the Case of those three kids nobody was moving nobody was moving at Smith also should Tell the childrens Aid the social worker and his supervisor that there were serious shortcomings in their Sherman there Are three walking tragedies out there As a result of he released the 11page sum Mary of Earles 60odd Page report says the minister should do much More to curb future mistreatment of one recommendation reads while one wants to be careful not to conjure up George Orwell spectre of big brother watching Over it May be when thinking of preventative measures with respect to child to consider a centralized and perhaps computerized coordinated source of information to which any Agency or professional could turn for an instant profile on a family in respect to the care of children in their some May argue this could invade individuals rights but the right of children to be free from abuse far outweighs any right to privacy that any individual May the report Earle wrote that the social worker Bob who was not named in the report had sufficient information to warrant a formal investigation of possible sexual abuse of the children in this police charged the Stepfather after hearing from a after convicting the Stepfather of nine sexual abuse county court judge George Lockwood sentenced him on 27 to 20 years in during last Summers judge Lockwood said he believed both boys testimony that they had complained to Boulet about being sexually the judge criticized Boulet for doing virtually nothing about the at the Boulet testified that one see provincial Page 4 gloomy View soviet Leader Konstantin Chernenko says the world situation is dangerous and not getting any out of it Winnipeg jets skated out of their season outclassed 41 by great goal ending and a Superior Oiler compensation chinese canadians who had to pay a head to get into Canada Are attempting to have the injustice recognized and i slight oversight the Federal conservatives cant say what their new tax policy lotto winning numbers 47 Bonus number 21 Index Ann 20 42 33 30 33 6 22 7 21 Jumble 37 41 21 25 sports record 32 17 to 41 i ;