another season of monthly meetings.

SEX CRIMES

Police ju st

oases iain *

NEWS photo Terry Peters
CPL. GARRY Sexsmith addresses the Citizens United for Saftey and Justice as they open

“scratching
the surface’

NORTH VANCOUVER may be

“‘the Sleepy

Hollow of the Lower Mainland’’ when it comes to
such violent crimes as murders, but Cpl. Garry
Sexsmith says RCMP here are just scratching the
surface when it comes to sex-related problems.

*‘We are receiving two to
five reports of offenses a
week and most victims are
under 12 years of age,’' Sex-
smith told a mecting of the
North Shore branch of the
Crtizens United for Safety
and Justice Tuesday night

Sexsmith, who handles in
vestigation of sex
ually-related crimes for the
RCMP herc, was the first
guest speaker of ai new
season for the
cuicens group

“Ht we're getting 30) per
cent of the incidents we're
lucky.’ hfe sand *’ I'm scared
suff of getting all the reports

we would have to. triple
the police force and = we
could deal with oothing clse
As itis, at only JO per cent, |
still find myself falling three
to four weeks behind ©

Sexsmith outhned progress
that ts being made in dealing
with the problems
improved relationships be
tween the pohee and agen
Q@es such as the Ministry of
Human Resoucres and Rape
Rehief to growing acceptance
Of the sexually related crimes
and child abusc as topics for
public discussion and
vuttined problems police and
the community face in deal

Brass Footy

from

By MARK HAMILTON

ing with the crimes

Probiems, he said, include
the unwillingness of adults
to beheve children who ac
cuse others of sexually
assauluung them, the feeling
of guilt and fear of authority
figures such as police among
abused children and a lack
of proficiency among police
at present at) queshoning
children

Those problems continuc
into. the legal areca’ where
there are difficulties in get
ting children accepted by the
courts as witnesses and into
the area of treatment
rchabihitabon

and

“When we get cases in the
courts finding = that
we're getting a fa tmal and
a fan shot trom the judges
on sentencing duc to com
munity groups such as yours
showing an taterest and put

we're

ting the pressure on Sex
smith said
“Mery btthe treatment ois

available for the offender or
the victim,’ he added
“There are some well
studied programs in the
United States but for
expert who fects

every
they are

great, there’s another who
says they do absolutely
nothing. Speaking as an in
dividual, | don’t think a sex
ual deviant can ever be
cured.”*

But the real problem, Sex.
smith said, ‘tis that people
who abuse children do not
go around with a large P on
their foreheads There is no
scarlet letter. It could be the
minister down the = s(reet,
Uncle George, o1 a teacher

Reporting suspected cases
child abuse — sexual of not
— is required by law, Sex
smith reminded the group,
adding that ‘‘1t's better to be
wrong on the side of the
child than not to report what
you suspect and have the

child continue to be vic
amused *"

Finally, in answer to ques
fons from the small au

dience on hand for the
meeting, Sexsmith said there
was a link between sexually
tclatcd climes and por
nography in almost a third
of all local cases

“We've been asking vic
tums about that for the past
two years and there is a
dcfinite hnk in 30 per cent of
the cases" Sexsmith = said
“tn PS per cent of those (0
per cent) pornography was
uscd in conjunction with the
assault But we have no way
of knowing how many
perpetrators use por
nography overall "'

All - Friday, September 14, 1984 - North Shore News

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