: pect awaits ' Vancouver high court early * next year, after ‘‘an agoniz- example. It’s been over a year now since. a 14-year-old North Shore girl, whose real name isn’t Janice, stood at a Keith Road bus stop thinking about the evening she was to spend with a couple in Vancouver. Before the bus arrived, a black van pulled up beside her. She was taken in the van. across town. But over in Vancouver, before she arrived at her destination, Janice was raped by the van driver. Her attacker, who weighed over 200 pounds, later was charged with \ rape and gross indecency by police. The scars and bruises on her neck, cheek, and lower parts of her body have healed. The loose teeth have been replaced, and she now _ attends school in a. small town some 40 miles away. Meanwhile, the rape sus- trial in a ing preliminary hearing’’ attended by Janice and her ‘ parents, who we will call Stan and Mary. “*I guess Janice has got over most of it now,’ says the mother in a North Shore : News interview. “‘The only. reason Janice decided to go~ ahead with it (press charges) >is she didn’t want it to . * happen to another girl.”’ 35 minutes from North Van. - How do parents react whe thelr child has been raped? What trauma, if any, do the victim and the parents undergo cxamgle “ arne® he courts? This case history fs one The mother, 44, in a light sleeveless blouse, talks free- ly. Her husband, 48, and a union leader, is tall, wearing a light blue cotton shirt. He lights up a cigarillo, and settles in a sofa to her right. He is silent for the moment. 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(112) 092-5087 RAPE VICTIV?S parents speaking with News Editor Bill Lam... “Despite the embarassing questions, the girl should press charges. »” [Anna Lem Photo) the mother, angrily. “‘We had requested that the hearing be closed, but | wasn't.”’ , The father interjects: ‘‘lt wasn’t a trial. It was a hearing to determine if there was sufficient evidence to bring him to trial.”’ Mary cuts in. ‘‘Janice had to describe how he got the - pants off her, and fondled her. He then tried to get her to have oral sex with him,’’ She also told them how he hit her, and threw her down in the van, the mother says. “She was not sure if he knocked. her out, but she remembered that he had his hands around her neck.” At the hearing Janice told . how all her friends and relatives knew about the - EVERBRITE HOMES . 1% miles south of Squamish. Choose from 30 variations of blueprints - all government approved - for a housing style” in a natural treed a setting bordering on Crown land. Site Office < incident. She gave them a description. of her attacker and of the van. About two months after the alleged rape, one relative spotted the van, and copied: down the licence number: The relative informed Janice’s father who in turn informed the Vancou- ver city. police. They traced the suspect and arrested him, Stan says. HUMILIATING Meanwhile, the mother remains tense. She rubs her hands together, drying . the perspiration off them. “it was awful,’’ she adds. The counsel for the defence began asking Janice ‘‘humil- iating questions,’”’ . cross examination, she says. **Right in front of everyone. I wouldn’t have believed it if I wasn’t there myself,’’. Mary explains. . Janice’s panties were exa- © mined by police pathologists, and traces of human semen ~ Split level: aT “Bungalow — & basement homes [with gov't. grant] - in his were found on them, the court was told. . Mary leans forward in her sofa, and begins with some examples of the questions by the defence lawyer. 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