IH medical officer arrested

[MAPearce]

Even if the crown has a 99% chance of losing, they still must set the matter before a judge.

Bull crap .. If you're as smart as you say you are , you'd know that .....

[gardengirl]

Mistakes are made.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overturne ... _in_Canada

[normaM]

sure, and there are times the victims don't report it figuring they will be the ones on Trial
SNIP
Majority of sexual assaults are not reported to police

According to the 2014 GSS, in that year, the majority (83%) of sexual assaults were not reported to police. In fact, only five percent of sexual assaults were reported.Footnote 4 In three studies completed by Justice Canada with survivors of sexual assault,Footnote 5 over two-thirds of those in the male sample (68%), and in the northern sample (67%), and 64% in the female sample did not report child sexual abuse/assaults to the police, nor did another individual report the abuse. The findings were similar for survivors of adult sexual abuse/assault. In the male sample, 70% stated that they did not report adult sexual abuse/assault, while 59% of those in the female sample and 56% of those in the northern sample did not report it. In the Justice Canada studies, the most frequently reported reasons for not reporting child sexual abuse and/or adult sexual abuse were: the participants thought that they would not be believed, they felt ashamed or embarrassed, they did not know they could report the abuse, and they had no family support.
https://www.justice.gc.ca/eng/rp-pr/jr/ ... apr01.html

[Trixster]

What if he's found Not Guilty? His reputation is tarnished and he will never work in his chosen career ever again!

[W105]

What if he's found Not Guilty? His reputation is tarnished and he will never work in his chosen career ever again!

^^ and what if he is found guilty , the victim will never be the same..again, the Crown only proceeds when there is an extremely good chance of a conviction

it's really not that hard to avoid being charged with sex crimes towards a minor ..especially when you are an educated adult..

and yeah Norma, so gross that the victim is being called a money grabber liar ...this is exactly why many victims never speak up

[roseridge]

What if he's found Not Guilty? His reputation is tarnished and he will never work in his chosen career ever again!

Regardless of being found guilty or not, once a person of high authority like him get charged with sex crimes with a minor, he will forever be branded a child molester, or pedophile. If found not guilty, he's pretty much looking at finding another country to live in, and if found guilty, upon his release from prison, he's probably looking at a legal name change, and moving to another distant community, and assuming a low profile. Usually, the evidence would have to be pretty strong to charge a high profile person.

[normaM]

^^^^ yeppers
I doubt strongly the charges just placed because someone said he did

[Trixster]

A man in Kamloops was found not guilty for touching his step daughter by a judge. Wonder how the crown prosecutor felt about that and will the kid along with her mother be charged for making false allegations?

[Fancy]

A man in Kamloops was found not guilty for touching his step daughter by a judge. Wonder how the crown prosecutor felt about that and will the kid along with her mother be charged for making false allegations?

Finding a person not guilty doesn't mean the act didn't happen.

B.C. Supreme Court Justice Sharon Matthews called the girl's story "compelling," but said the evidence left her with doubts about the man’s guilt — so she had to find him not guilty.

https://www.castanet.net/news/Kamloops/ ... rls-family

[Trixster]

Fancy you conviently left out the part about the childs mother and even false allegations can be *cough* compelling

[Fancy]

Fancy you conviently left out the part about the childs mother and even false allegations can be *cough* compelling

I didn't leave out anything - the link is there for everyone to read. My point stands.

[Trixster]

Fancy you conviently left out the part about the childs mother and even false allegations can be *cough* compelling

I didn't leave out anything - the link is there for everyone to read. My point stands.

Annnnd again another youth/woman gets off scot free for ruining a guys life!

[normaM]

You mean like all the MEN who get off scot free for ruining a woman's Life?
How do you know he didn't molest his step daughter? Surprising number of assaults by step dads against their step daughters

[Even Steven]

Roughly half of the posters in this topic will have to eat crow burgers once the truth comes out.

No matter what that is.

[77TA]

Roughly half of the posters in this topic will have to eat crow burgers once the truth comes out.

No matter what that is.

The only crow eating would be the ones assuming guilt in advance if he is found innocent.

There is no fault in waiting for the facts and legal outcome before passing judgment.