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NEWS A2 The Vancouver Sun, Friday, June 9, 1989 "Second-clata mall, registration number 029" SUMMARY WORLD Sexual abuse survivors tell their all-too-common stories IN ONE OF the toughest tests any Kremlin leader has faced belore live television cameras, Mikhail Gorbachev has fended off a unprecedented array of chal NICOLE lenges to Communist party authority at the Congress of Pea pie Deputies. A5 CANADA THE NOP claims the federa resented his stepson and "used to beat him up a lot and would have killed him." And so Sheryl kept her guilty, trapped feelings inside. She became a caretaker, protecting her mother from the knowledge of what had happened and her half-brother from her father. By not talking about it, she felt she was holding the family together. Her silent suffering made her feel "withdrawn, inhibited, dirty, ashamed and different from other children." She was often depressed, and had enormous weight fluctuations caused by self-starvation and binge eating.

She dwelled on the idea of killing herself, took anti-depressants, and lived in the future so she wouldn't have to face yesterday and today. She is now 31 and in therapy. Sex is still "repulsive" to her. To this day, she hasn't told her parents or pressed charges against her brother. Except for a small circle of friends, the terrible knowledge that haunts her remains her silent secret.

Saturday: Jean, Claire, and Eleanor. First of two parts THEY ARE five: Sue, Sheryl, Jean, Claire and Eleanor. They share a common bond: They are all survivors. I have listened to Sue, Sheryl, Jean and Claire, and shared their pain. Eleanor is a stranger who sent me a letter signed only with her first name and last initial, in an envelope with no return address.

Eleanor writes that she has never told her family what she told me. Perhaps today she will. The B.C. health ministry reports that 1,200 sexually abused children received mental health services in 1988; two years earlier, the number stood at 480. Social Credit backbencher Grace McCarthy recently commented in the legislature that child sex offenders get off too lightly.

Her look at B.C. trial decisions in sexual assault cases between January 1984 and September 1988, showed the majority of offenders received either a suspended sentence or a sentence of two years or less. government plans to cut an esti mated $66 million from western regional development spending next year. A11 While stressing the independence of the judiciary, McCarthy referred to "the concern that I believe is out there in the community compassion for this tiny, defenceless, vulnerable child in many cases, an infant. I feel that this is very much a non-partisan situation.

I frankly believe that we have a responsibility in this house to bring that concern to the attention of the community. That's why we were elected; that's why we sit in this They are five. Here are two of their stories: At 14, Sue was raped by John Horace Oughton, the "paper bag rapist" who covered his young victims' eyes. Suspected of more than 170 sexual assaults and convicted of 14 separate offences, Oughton has been declared a dangerous sexual offender and is Sue began to fall apart emotionally: "I allowed myself to think about it. Up to that point, I had had no feelings about it and seemed to be functioning well." Unable to handle stress, she quit her job and remains unemployed.

Her marriage has suffered and she doesn't easily form trusting relationships. At 26 and after 18 months of therapy, she still sees "no end in sight." Sheryl's voice is quiet and shaky as she talks about the oldei half-brother who molested her under the covers when he thought she was sleeping. The abuse started when she was two, continuing for eight years until her brother left home. She didn't dare tell her mother, an alcoholic who alsd suffered sexual abuse as a child and who couldn't handle the trauma. She didn't dare tell her father, who PARTON BRITISH COLUMBIA THE LAWYER representing the operator of The Two Parrots Brew serving an indefinite jail term.

The case went to trial 10 years after Sue's rape: "He'd threatened to kill me if I reported it, and I'd lived with that fear all those years. He said he had to catch a bus after he raped me, and I have never been able to take a bus since." After Oughton's sentencing, Pub and Restaurant says his cli ent approached Premier Bill Vander Zalm to discuss the Coquitlampub.B3 GREATER VANCOUVER Body believed to be missing Richmond nurse's DEVELOPERS In parts of Kerris- dale and south Granville will be forced by a new city bylaw to con- sider the opinions of tenants who would be displaced. B2 BUSINESS NEW VSE CHAIRMAN Marty Reynolds sees brighter times ahead for the battered stock exchange. F1 THE FEDERAL government has staying with her because she was afraid to be alone. No suspect was ever apprehended, despite James making dozens of complaints to police about the continuing harassment and.

threats, Hack said. He said his daughter separated from her husband six years ago and has been divorced three years. James even changed her married surname Makepeace and moved to Richmond from Vancouver, hoping to elude the threats, he said. Hack said his daughter saw the face of the attacker once and said she didn't recognize the man or know why anyone would want to harm her. across the street from where the body was found, said a man lived in an old van parked behind the home, which had been empty for about two months.

"God knows what else is in there," she said, pointing to the overgrown vacant lot beside the house, which had "Devil" spray-painted on an inside wall. Hack said his daughter was terrorized beginning in 1983 when she was stabbed and strangled in Vancouver by an unknown assailant. He detailed other incidents. January, 1984: She was found unconscious after being choked, stabbed and injected with a drug outside her home in Vancouver; July, 1984: She was attacked at Wallace Park at the University of By NEAL HALL Sun Crime Reporter The father of a Richmond nurse missing for two weeks is convinced that a body found Thursday beside an abandoned house is his daughter's. "In my mind there is no doubt it's Cindy," said Otto Hack, the father of Cindy James, 44, who worked at Richmond General Hospital.

James, who would have celebrated her 45th birthday Monday, was last seen alive depositing her paycheque May 25 at 7:59 p.m. in a bank machine at Blundell and No. 2 Road. "The RCMP will make a positive identification tomorrow (Friday)," Hack, a retired Canadian forces pilot, said Thursday after arriving in B.C. and strangled with pantyhose.

The phone lines of her home were also cut that year; October, 1988: James was found unconscious outside her Richmond home near her car. She had been assaulted, strangled and injected with a drug; Dead cats were found in her yard on four occasions. They were choked to death and had threatening notes attached, telling her not to go to police; She received a series of threatening telephone calls and threatening notes were left on her car, warning her that family members would be in danger if she went to police; Last April, a window of her home was smashed, setting off a burglar alarm, while James' mother was cut off funds to a private company that was supposed to create jobs, saying the total number of lobs created was far under expectations. F2 SPORTS CINDY JAMES: lived in terror A BRILLIANT hockey career is coming to an end, goalie Grant Fuhr has announced. After eight seasons with the Edmonton Oilers, Fuhr said he was calling it quits because he didn't like things being said in the dressing room Improve Your Business with Mdbfer about him.

F7 ENTERTAINMENT Richmond from his Sidney home. After weeks of uncertainty, Hack said, he felt relieved that at least he knows what happened to his daughter. Richmond RCMP said an autopsy is scheduled for today. A member of a municipal works crew patching pavement found the body when he went into a bush area next to the vacant, vandalized house at 8111 Blundell, about 1.5 kilometres from where James was last seen. Another municipal worker, Don Vinish, said: VShe was blond, with her hands behind her back tied to her feet with a rope.

had on a pink top, brown slacks and shoes," he said. "Her face was damaged and it looked like she had been lying there for a week or two weeks." Columba Dewildt, who lives A LACK OF character definition for Robin Williams is the downfall of Dead Poets Society, a Peter Weir film that dares march to its own drummer In an era of seque-litis. C8 Imported, Fashionable White, Grey or Black Covered in Durable, scratch heat resistant MELAMINE TOMORROW Mine deaths I ruled as homicide A coroner's jury has ruled that two men killed in an explosion at a remote mine exploration camp north of Stewart on Feb. 2 were victims of homicide. Killed were Claude Weber, 46, of Richmond, who was a foreman, and Otto Sawatsky, 53, of Thunder Bay, who was a Canadian Mines Development supervisor.

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