Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - November 4, 1991, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free november desperate abuse victim seeks Justice Why has the Gal system failed woman asks Bald Santin staff reporter a Winnipeg woman pleaded with police on 12 occasions to Lay charges against her abusive a husband be fore she fled the City in who asked that her last name not be was so desperate for help she wrote Justice minister Jim please help me and my family live a Normal life and help us get our rights Why is it that the Legal system has failed me the incident is typical of police attitudes toward battered Pam Jackson Ive heard her Story director of clinics evolve a coun Selling service for abused women and Abus Jackson said it is almost common for women to be forced to leave the City be cause it becomes too dangerous for during separation and custody proceed Ings in january Pam obtained a re straining order against her prohibiting him from harassing or both ering the order instructs police to enforce As far As the police Are even if there is a restraining so Long As he Doest attack they wont come or charge Jackson she said the release last week of the Ped Lar report on wife abuse will Force Winnipeg police to change their procedure toward men who violate restraining Mccrae promised a get Tough policy on Vio Lence in the Home after lawyer Dorothy Ped Lars report on Domestic violence and the criminal Justice i absolutely expect the police from now on will charge in breaches of restraining or Jackson i also expect that if anyone hears the police do not they will be very loud in complaining about Pam said she was outraged to recently find Winnipeg police never charged her sex despite telling her they in anger and she first sent a letter of complaint in late september to the Winnipeg police chiefs two weeks she wrote to last Mccrae said he would ask his department to find Why police never charged her the police response was to assign an officer in its victim services Branch to investigate the Validity of her Menno executive Assis Tant to the police said a report has been but that he would not Dis cuss the Case with the news adding he planned to Contact the woman what follows is a chronology of in pains own detailing her torment at the hands of her it was the same list sent to Mccrae my son Tyler then two years old and i fled our Home and went to stay at Osborne House after being threatened by my now a husband that he was going to shoot 1987 Pam returns to work at she leaves at gets into her locks her door and finds the truck wont smash came my a husbands fist on my window and he is telling me you cant get fixed your truck so it wont i fled on the passenger Side and his two Broth ers were my a husband is Yelling in Gonna kill i got into the its building and these purity guards police showed up and told me to run along they hold my a husband for one the police also told me i should get a big Boyfriend and they questioned me As to whose Money bought that truck j called the District 6 police and spoke to a sergeant who assured me that police had charged and then released my a husband on 1988 Pam discovers All the windows on her naked outside her trapped by abuse victims Are often forced to flee to escape the Relief May be have been she was to have picked up some of her belongings from the Home still occupied by her she asks the police to charge the they 1988 received some Days three to four Calls per Day where some one would wait until i answered the phone and then hang police told me everyone gets these kinds of Calls there probably just wrong 7 i looked out my front window and my a husband was driving his truck across my front my son Tyler then three years old was with him As he had him for an Ove mite my a husband drove out of the Yard sliding sideways in his truck a with my son still with him Down Chancellor he returned to my Yard and Slid with his truck into the Back Yard and spun he pulled up to the door and starting Yelling obscenities at i remained Calm until my son was out of the truck and in my then i told my a husband to get off my property or i would Call the my sex who smelled quite strongly of Alco told me go but ill kill you in not afraid of the i called the police and they told me they were quite Busy but might be Able to Send someone Down no one showed july Tyler came Home from a visit with my a husband and announced my dad told me he has a Bullet for August Tyler spends a week with his pams her a husband picks up Tyler for a two hour be re turns several hours slurring his words and smelled strongly of alcohol August 13 1989 j received a Call from my father saying my a husband had called him and was slurring his words and said he was going to pick up i advised my father not to allow him to pick up Tyler and i would drive pick him my a husband showed up drunk at my a told him he was going to beat the shit out of him and took my he phone me in Winnipeg and told me he was Gonna blow head off and his meaning tylers head off too and also told me i was never going to see Tyler i contacted the local ramp and Laid the Man is convicted in october of utter ing threats relating to this he receives a Fine and is placed on one years any violation of the Proba Tion conditions should have resulted in his rearrest and August 1989 my a husband showed up at my Home in Winnipeg and told my father who was visiting me you better watch your Back old Man and told a Friend of mine hed really like to beat the shit out of never called had Given 1989 i left my Home with Tyler and my Goddaughter two years old for 20 minutes and when i returned my a husband was waiting in the Back he told me he was Gonna backhand i called police and they actually showed up Only to Tell me that because he was gone Al ready there was nothing they could that id have to talk to my on the advice of her Law Pam goes to the District 6 police Sta they advised me they would Lay charge 1989 sergeant Zacharias now Menno Zacharias executive Assis Tant to the chief of police called and advised me charges would be Laid and if i had any further problems to Call 1989 pams a husband phones her demanding to speak to her and picking a fight with her she Calls Zacharias and is told a car will be sent to the when her sex shows blocking tray never s Fie in front of her House and Yelling he is go ing to kill Pam Calls he Parks behind a convenience store across the Street and yells obscenities at her House for 30 minutes before finally 1989 Pam Calls District 6 and learns police arrived at the night before two hours after her 911 found nothing and an officer later Calls and says they will Lay Pam goes to her parked in her and finds both doors everything rom the Glove compartment and the console were emptied out onto the floor and nothing was believe that this was a message telling me that even my locked car want Pam leaves work at Midnight to find her car unlocked didst dare bother the police this is when i began making arrangements to move out of win March 1990 moved to a Rural commune Christmas 1990 my a husband whose probation expired 1990 is in stayed May my a husband is Here i Send Tyler s years old out of town and my self and my son five weeks old go to my a August my Girlfriend tells me she thought she saw my a husband in i again Send Tyler out of town and i take my 4monthold son and again we go to my a August on the Long weekend holi Pam and friends go to the local shop Ping mall where they Are confronted by her his Girlfriend and his my a husband to pics at me and says to Gonna Stab you with a screwdriver and he makes an upward motion with his Pam flees the shopping mall and contacts the local ramp for the second Lay charges against the must she die to be believed what follows is an edited version of the letter Pam sent to dear Mccrae 1 write you today out of utter contempt for the miscarriage of the attached you will find a copy of a letter sent to the Winnipeg chief of police and a copy of a restrain ing order which int Worth the paper it is 1 sincerely believe that our government could make More Money if they sold re straining orders in vending machines then every battered woman would have cos efficient Access to one and lord Only knows these court documents Are Only agag anyway i have been totally humiliated by the Winnipeg police department when trying to have mine As you should be Able to see for 1 am very Hurt and angry that time after time my a husband has not been penalized by our Legal system for the Ter ror and sheer torture that he has put me 1 still continue to live each and every Day this Way because Justice has not been car ried i wonder if i would be treated in the same manner if i did the things he has done Tome or is it because Lama woman or is it be cause the majority of our lawmakers and those who enforce our Laws Are men you say you want to Stop the violence against women and children and Are pre pared to spend millions to Send out a task Force across the county to find out where to keep your people where they Are spend your millions re educating and train ing your your police our society and our spend your millions on women women educating our children on violence against them and their families and penalties for the i am not alone in this Are a countless Many women in the same or worse most of them give up and its no wonder Why the deck is stacked against do you want your great grandchild Dren to have to suffer the Way i have i am very that our great Legal system continues to keep me a youre probably Reading this thinking that this is just another Bitchy must be her time of the month or ii it wont pass Ive cried All the tears i can cry and Ive picked up my Pride and Damn it its time Justice was i left Winnipeg because that is where my a husband jives and thought moving to bothering his probation from charges i Laid expired october of 1990 and guess almost every Long weekend he threatened me again on the september Long ramp Are laying it seems quite Odd that the ramp can Lay charges but the Winnipeg police do you have any idea what its like Duck ing Down when a car backfires do you have any idea what its like watching Over your shoulder and in the rear View Mirror All the time do you have any idea what its like not being Able to sleep at night because every time you hear a noise you run from window to window do you have any idea at All what its like to live this Way 1 do does my a husband have to kill me before our Legal system will believe me in Bozen Olijnyk Law courts reporter rather than waiting for cases to show up in the Crown attorneys want an Inte grated approach to Domestic the chief of prosecutions for Winnipeg family violence court theres a lot that has to be done before it family violence Ever hits the Lynn Stannard said speaking to a crime prevention conference organized by the Manitoba society of criminology to kick off crime prevention Stannard said counselling for both Abus ers and their victims is and added judges who handle these cases need to be More aware of the Cycle of violence that victims must this is so that they can provide sentences that Are but also take into consideration the limitations on the jus Tice systems ability to provide said the senior Crown attorney responsible for the Stannard made her comments just Days after the provincial government released its Long awaited report on Domestic Vio prepared by Winnipeg lawyer Dor Othy its 75 recommendations for toughening up the Justice system in areas of Domestic violence include laying charges in More making bail More difficult and increasing counselling she defined the Cycle of Domestic Vio Lence As a continual state of fix that vac Illanes Between an act of a honeymoon and then a buildup of tension that leads to further she said that once a woman Calls police and a charge has been the woman has a number of imm4diate concerns to Deal they have to decide where to what there going to do for the uprooting of she and because there is inadequate counsel Ling and resources to Deal with these practical it becomes a lot easier for women to accept the honeymoon stage and remain in a violent As a Stannard said counselling and resources Are needed to help women make informed decisions and to help them decide whether to testify in As Stannard said men who abuse their spouses Are in desperate need of Long term As Many of their actions Are based on Learned behaviour they picked up As children in their own Stannard said family violence court handled cases in the past who says its Winter despite the Bon chilling temperatures it was a Lovely Day for a stroll through the Garden yesterday for Saul who appears to be enjoying his visit to a Dis play of chrysanthemums inside the conservatory at Assiniboine Winnipeg lawyer receives plaque in Honor of 25 years of service a Winnipeg lawyer has been Hon ored for his 25 years of service to the learning disabilities association of 1 was just deeply moved by the Yude Henteleff said of a special plaque he the association with people has been Ive certainly gotten More from the organization than Ive Given to the organizations presi Dent during its first two years 1966 to 1968 in president of the learning disabilities association of said the groups help Chil Dren and adults with such disabilities As dyslexia improve their lives in any Way he said he acts As honorary coun Sel to both the Canadian and Mani Toba and the Only disappointment Ive had is that so Many children and adults still dont receive what there entitled to under Law including the charter of rights and hotel officials praised two Winnipeg hotel officials have won Silver plume sponsored applause a Salute to worthy accomplishment Glen Mackenzie by where Winnipeg Magazine and tourism George charter House hotel was named most supportive general while Shannon Norwood hotel dining room won in the guest services representative Cate pharmacist honoured a retired Portage la Prairie pharmacist has been named the Manitoba pharmaceutical associations pharmacist of the he is Orville who opened Locust drug Mart in 1972 and ran it until when he sold it to shoppers drug Mart and then stayed on for two More years with shoppers until his 1988 doctor elected to Post a Winnipeg physician has been elected Vic chairman of the Ameri can College of obstetricians and by ecologist Manitoba he is Carl a practice ing Affili ated with Boniface general hos Pital and Victoria general he was elected for a three year established in the College has members specializing in the health care of scholarship won a Winnipeg Ger has won an scholarship to continue her Christine Patricia a second year forestry student at the univer sity of new Brunswick in Frederic won an graduates ;