No buyers yet for Cats Fram page 1 fo an estimated final cust of $463 million. Both boats already in the water, the Explorer and the Discovery, have experienced persistent mechanical difficulties. Bert Paul, director of Bowen-based Ferry CURE (Coalition of Users to Re-establish Equity), said it was appropriate that the vessels be sold and BC Ferries’ debt transferred, but expressed his amazement at ministeriat refusal to set up a public inquiry. “The two questions are, who's going to pay, and who is responsible?” said Paul. “If they had real integrity, they'd have a full public inquiry.” ; : __ Paul called the fast ferry episode “the largest financial fiasco in the history of the province — bar none,” adding that “(McPhail and Premier Ujjal Dosanjh) are trying to blame pre- vious decision-makers like Glen Clark, but they were there the whole time. The fact is, they failed to exercise duey of care.” The final Car will likely be completed by late spring. In the meantime, its sister ships will remain on the Horseshoe Bay- Nanaimo route to “showcase” them to potential buyers. _ Florida-based marine consulrant and broker Bob Ward pre- dicted the province would have difficulty selling the boats. He said there was a surplus of similar vessels available for sale on the world market: boats which, unlike the PacifiCats, per- form to their specifications. Ward said the Cats were “what we in the industry would call ‘turkeys.’ They don’t fly and I doubt if you could give them away to any knowledgeable buyer anywhere.” Bowen teen expelled From pane} The crimes took place at the West Vancouver middle school in Caulfeild, on a bus and near Bowen Island from October 1998 to March of last year. The three victims were abcut 14 years old and Grade 9 students at the time. The crimes included: sexually assaulting one of the girls az the school by straddling her and kissing her forehead while “moaning end groaning” and rocking against her near the school’s drama room. Another sexual assault involved the same type of behavior or “simulating sex” to another victim on the ferry. The assault with a weapon involved a sweater used in a strangling incident, a noose incident and holding a knife to the throat of a girl in another incident. The assaults included a spit ball incident, an egg throwing incident and an incident in the school’s girl’s washroom involving the “crack- ing” of a girl’s neck. North Vancouver provincial court Judge William Diebolt said the boy's behavior was “tormenting, degrading and dehu- manizing” to the victims. Diebolt said one of the victim’s testimony almost “brought tears to my eyes.” The judge noted that girl was “unable to go to school” after the incidents. The girl and her family “had to” move from their home. “They don’t even want you to know where. There was a big devastation to their life for what you did,” said Diebolt to the convicted youth. The judge briefly recapped some of the youth’s back- ground, noting two grade school teachers referring to his dis- ruptive manner, inappropriate behavior to gain attention and the need for him to work on self control. “You became a bully. The very thing that happened to you,” said Diebott. The convicted youth was expelled from school. He was taking high school correspondence courses. The judge imposed no-contact conditions with the victims which may prevent the youth from going to school in West Vancouver. The judge decided against ordering the youth to complete community work as the youth had a lot of school work. 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