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Vancouver secondary
school teachers face
sexual offence charges
allegedly involving
female students.

By Anna Marie D'Angelo
News Reporter

These recent ‘charges
stem from _ incidents
alleged to have occurred in
the 1970s and [980s

John Alexander Bain,
53, of North Vancouver, is
presently suspended from
his Handsworth secondary
school teaching job.

Bain was charged on
Feb. 21 with three counts of gross indecency
and one count of indecent assault against more
than one student from 1976 to 1983.

A second man, retired Carson Graham sec-
ondary teacher. Kurt Maxmillian Hueftlein, 64,
appeared in North Vancouver provincial court

on Wednesday in connection with one count of -

gross indecency and two counts of ' sexual

NV DISTRICT 44 Board chair-
man Barb MactLeilan .... “it’s
sad to say these kind of
alleged incidents are material-
izing all over the place.”

touching while the accused
was in a position of trust.

The charges are connect-
ed with incidents that were
aNeged to have occurred
between Dec. 31, 1987, and
July 1, 1989, involving one
student.

Meanwhile, suspended
Sutherland secondary
teacher Daryl Wayne
Samson, 42, next appears in
the same court house on
March 27 in connection
with two counts of sexual
touching and one count of
sexual assault.

The charges are connect-
ed with incidents that are
alleged to have occurred on
Nov. 19, 1993, involving a
female student.

Said North Vancouver District 44 School
Board chairman Barbara MacLellan, “It’s sad
to say these kind of alleged incidents are mate-
rializing all over the place ... 1 don’t think that
the district is exceptional in that way.”

MacLellan confirmed that suspended teach-
ers facing the courts on criminal charges
receive full salaries.

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She added that accused people are e presumed
innocent until proven otherwise.

MacLellan said suspended teachers who are
convicted of offences and appeal the findings
are still to be employed by the school district
during the appeal process.

She said there is no provision to recover
salaries paid out during suspensions in cases in
which teachers are convicted of criminal
charges and fired from their jobs.

“It’s one of those expenses we have to bear,”
said MacLellan.

Bain was suspended from his teaching job
four months ago. Samson was suspended from
his job in December 1993.

North Vancouver teachers are paid an annu-
al salary of between $32,263 and $63,872,
according to a North Vancouver Teachers’
Association spokesman,