Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 2, 1997, Winnipeg, Manitoba
Ft4 Winnipeg free october 1997 Wayne Lowacki Winnipeg free press and Lewis Tell their stories at news child prostitution entrapment detailed by Kim Guttormson staff reporter groups of school children sat Cross legged on the lunch room floor at the us while in the next room former child prostitutes explained How easily that life can entrap i came from a Middle class fam ily that loved me very Megan Lewis before talking about How she spent her 13th summer turning tricks in Vancouver Gas town Dis i worked for 11 Lewis and Cherry Kingsley Are organizing an International Summit on the sexual exploitation of Chil to be held next March in Vic they Are in Winnipeg to talk to children working the streets and to choose two to attend the Summit and offer their personal stories and Solu yesterday they met with the offi Cial Side of Winnipeg representatives from social agencies and child find Manitoba and last night and tonight walk the talking to the youths them this year in police have charged 13 girls under the age of 18 with communicating for the purpose of while 73 adults and 43 Johns were last year 19 youths were 70 adults and 72 but Kingsley Points out that most adult prostitutes started when they were under Esti mates of the number of children working Winnipeg streets at any one time Range from a few Hundred to More than Laura Donatelli is the program manager of Street which is helping Kingsley and Lewis get their bearings in the its a step in the right direction to listen to the individuals she its a very Complex with very deep Treyve really been Kingsley said of the focus the courage the Young people show in she began working in Vancouver when she was for a Man who was the first person to be Nice to she left that life six years ago when she was after being raped at gun the Summit has received funding from Federal including foreign affairs and the Canadian International development i cant believe we have this that people would actually sponsor us to have a Kings Ley Mother of slain woman fights to keep Man in jail parole hearings Are a horrible ordeal for Parent by David Square h with reliving the flight she heard he daughter had been beaten to for the fourth year if a she is preparing the written reasons that she opposes parole for Gareth Wayne Robinson used to be Laguras he married her 22yearold in november of eight months he bludgeoned Cynthia to death with the claw end of a me confessed to that slaying and another the 1984 stabbing of 26yearold Elizabeth Polanski was stabbed More than 50 times with Kitchen knife and a pocket Robinsons confession was part of a plea bargain that reduced his charges from second degree murder to he was sentenced to two concurrent terms of life imprisonment with a seven year wait before he could apply for his sentencing hearing was the last time manuf a saw him in the his eyes were cold and and he showed absolutely no she if Robinson exercised his right to a parole Board Mapra had to draw up her reasons for opposing his it was a horrible she i t i believe in capital punishment this Man admitted to killing my daughter and another woman in cold Why is he still alive Robinsons parole was turned he applied again in Magura had to oppose his and he applied in 1996 for the third again Magura restated her Robin son is a multiple killer who has shown no crime victims have no Magura and the system is so cruel it must be 1 believe in capital she this Man admitted to killing my daughter and another woman in cold Why is he still alive this Robinsons hearing is scheduled for this of he exercises his right to have it will be his his parole officer told Magura that Robinson May waive his right this but she cant be so Shes preparing Howard the Reform my who represents said he is about to file a private members Bill concerning yearly parole the Reform party feels it is cruel to require the families of crime victims to file a statement of rejection ii at yearly parole Hilstrom Martin manager of executive information systems for the Federal government in said there Are currently deters in Federal penitentiaries and 484 Are eligible for he said most apply for parole every Hilstrom said the initial statement of objection filed at the time of conviction should be sufficient evidence for the parole Board to make a Deci bad boys bring out Good in Peg Well behaved stones fans rolled without mayhem police by Doug Nairne police reporter the bad boys of Rock and Roll played to Well behaved fans in Winnipeg tuesday other than a few two drug arrests and a handful of noise com the rolling stones concert was a no event for1 Overall it was a very quiet Carl there were no major incidents to speak even the people who were arrested during the concert were decidedly showing that the stones fans Are rolling along in years and along with the band during the Vic division officers arrested two men for posses Sion of marijuana one aged 43 and the other a total of 13 joints were the men will appear in court on police detained three people under the intoxicated persons detention act after they passed out from drinking too residents of the area around the Winnipeg stadium called in four noise complaints in response to the booming sound system powering the stones Shier said the callers were All apparently unaware of the concert and seemed to accept it once the source of the loud music was in there were 70 police on duty for the 32 of them hired by the concert promoters on special duty to provide the remaining officers were working in traffic control and As plainclothes vice officers in the there was a Large police presence at the but there were peo ple so we consider the response to be Shier police say reports on a local radio station yesterday that As Many As 80 cars belonging to concert goers were broken into during the performance Are Shier said Only about two dozen thefts of All types were reported in All of Winnipeg in the 12hour period after the and Only a fraction of those would have been from car break he said that As of yesterday after there were no reports of cars being broken into at the concert a caller to the radio station said she had her car broken into while she attended the concert and a ring was officers bag Hunters for surplus ducks i 1 Loveseat Cham it ottoman 2998 look at it picked with All the style and Quality youd Eageat frown a perfect Way Complete any Teather chair available in 16 to Teigner Colon to suit any cocktail table jew end table 129 table 169 use n Mitt 6 s by Holly Moncrieff for the free press three Duck Hunters face big fines and possible jail sentences for alleged Over Hunting near the Douglas Johnson and Michael Blaeser from Minnesota and James Grierson from Florida were charged by environment Canada wildlife enforcement offi cers after a routine Check of their Hunting area turned up eight abandoned ring neck officers found edible tons of ducks in trash bags with other garbage and fire arms that were improperly Blaeser blamed late Din Ner we thought we were going to have but they came too and when they they we rent hungry for he we cleaned too Many of them and we prob ably have cleaned that it was a mistake on our since migratory Birds have to have at least one fully feathered Wing for identification to be trans ported across the Canadian the Hunters decided to throw out the left Over meat rather than get caught with Blaeser we had these breasted ducks and nothing to do with i feel kind of bad about what he the untouched eight ducks at the Hunting site that tipped off environment Canada investigators we rent said we picked up our limit and there were other ducks there that we didst know we looked around and didn7t find any More of l wildlife enforcement up Ordi Nator Joe Buker said the Hunters shot 32 Birds eight Over their Legal if the Hunters could face fines of every Duck abandoned or a suspension of their Hunting and a possible term for the unsafe storage of said Dave Mancini from the Pis the Hunters released on a Cash Bond and Are scheduled to appear in provincial court in the Pas in s t i i i the one i i multiple t doctors making houss Caus How hot faqs services by a fisc
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