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THE VOICE OF NORTH AND WEST VANCOUVER

December 22, 1985 News 985-2131. Classified 986-6222 Circulation 986-1337 438 Pages 25¢

FIRST DEGREE murder charges were laid
against a North Vancouver man in connection
with the death of three-year-old Genoa (Genni)

May of Sechelt.

Darren Andrew Henry
Kelly, 20, appeared in North
Vancouver provincial court
Friday afternoon, accused of
murdering Genni May after
she disappeared from her
Sechelt-area hotel room in
the early morning of Dec.

Kelly was arrested some-
where in the Lower

Mainland Friday morning,
but police would not con-
firm where.

Genni is believed to have
been taken from her bed at
about 4:45 a.m. while her
parents Slept in an adjoining
room.

Her body was found the
next day near Cliff Gilker
Park, just a few miles from
the motel. Her pink security
blanket, which she would
not sleep without, was found
just a few feet from the
body.

After the autopsy, police
confirmed foul play was in-
volved in Genni's death, but
would not release the cause
of death.

The Sunshine Coast Credit
Union and the Royal Bank
in Vancouver have accepted

over $30,000 to a reward
fund for information leading
to the arrest and conviction of
the killer,

Genni’s father Tom May
said Friday he was relieved a
suspect had been arrested.
He said he hoped for a
speedy trial because of the
emotional hardship a pro-
longed trial would impose on
his family.

Kelly is scheduled to ap-
pear again in North Van-
couver provincial court
Monday at 9:30 a.m.

Few other details about
the case have been released
by police.

“Certain aspects of the
investigation are still ongo-
ing and we will not be releas-
ing any further information
to ensure that future court
proceedings are not jeopar-
dized,"”, North Vancouver
RCMP Cpl. Don Jette said
Friday.

According to statements
made to the press by Genni’s
uncle, Roger May, the Mays
were staying in room 107, a

THE CURRENT North Shore red measlfes were reported.
epidemic, which began in West Vancouver sec-
ondary schools in early October, has shown no

signs of abating.

Dr. Eric MacBean, medi-
cal health officer for the
North Shore, said Friday
known cases of the disease

began at about the start of

the present school year —- in
September and October —-

Iness reared its speckled head

fime, approximately 160
cases were reported in the
Vancouver area, following a

The illness, MacBean said,
is not one to be taken light-
ly. Unlike the relatively in-
nocuous German measles,
which for school-age
children results in little more
than a red rash, red measles

can cause serious complica-

One in a thousdnd cases
can result in meningitis or
encephalitis, inflammation

” Vancouver ‘provincial’
_ court ‘Friday’ afternoon

ground-floor kitchen suite of
the motel.

The parents were sleeping
in one room of the two
bedrooms while their 12-
year-old son, Steven, slept in
the second. Genni was sleep-
ing on a fold-out couch.

May said the glass door
was open just a crack to Jet
in some fresh air when the
family retired. It was wide
open when the parents
discovered Genni missing.

He said the parents heard
Genni cry ‘Mommy, Mom-
my’ at about 4:45 a.m., but
did not respond because the
child had: been restless that
night with an earache.

“Someone came into our
room and took our child out
and murdered her,’’ said
Tom May in a statement
released last weekend.

Police have acknowledged
the similarity between the
May death and the July 26
Vancouver slaying of two-
year-old Arron Kaplan.

Police believe an intruder
entered the Kaplan’s home
and took the youngster out-
side. He was found in the
yard at 7 a.m. Three hours

‘later he died from head inju-
ries.

“DARREN . Andrew
‘Henry- Kelly, 20, of.
‘North . Vancouver “was
whisked . into... North

charged’ ‘with first .8
degree. murder in the:
Dec. 13, skaying of
-Genoa May.::.

battered and the body con-
sequently susceptible to
pneumonia and other more
serious illnesses.

DANGER POSED

Though he said cases of
encephalitis caused by red
measles were rare and that
he did not want to panic the

have multiplied rapidly over where it had not been reared ions,
: the past two weeks. for at least five years, accor- ERI . , public, MacBean pointed out
‘ Since reports of the illness ding to MacBean. At that SERIOUS ILLNESS “the thing to be aware of is

that red measles can be a
serious illness, especially for
children."'

Red measies, he said, pose

MacBean said 150 known midsummer’s red measle of the brain, MacBean said. ,
cases of red measles have outbreak. The last serious Because of what is an over- the most danger to children
been documented on the red measle outbreak whelming infection, red six-months to two-years-old,

North Shore.
It was in 1984 that the il-

previous to that in B.C. was
in 1979 when 1,801 cases

measles can also feave natu-
ral disease defence systems

See Measles
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