MAY 31, 1998

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New
health
board
named

Judy Smith
and Michael Becker

THE new North
Shore Health Region
Board. will meet for
the first time this
week.

Health minister Penny Priddy
announced the members of the
board on Friday:

@ Len Kelsey, who will chair the
group;
B Grant Spitz, Lions Gare
Hospital Foundation director
and a partner in The Caldwell
Partners executive placement
company;
@ Paulah Dauns, a former North
Shore Health Region Board
member and Vancouver regional
director of the Legal Service
ciety;
BM Michac] Hoole, former
Westmin Resour Lrd./
Gibraltar Mines Ltd. vice-presi
dent;
@ Elizabeth Kirkwood, a rer
nurse who worked at Lions Gate
and Vancouver General hospi-
tals, and a board member of the
North Shere Crisis Services
Suciet
B Maureen McKeon Holmes, a
health services and planning con-
suleant, and president of Norgate
Horse Sociery;
B Barbara Bretr, a social worker
and member of the B.C. Review
Board and former i
director for Family Services of
ater Vancouver;
B Bill Breeden, chief operating
officer, Ladner Downs, Barristers
& Solicitors;
@ Dr. Heather Kelleher, assistant
professor, mathematics educy
tion, curmeulum studies, Faculty
of Fducation, UBC,
@ Dr. Richard Lupton, rhe

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JASON Eom, 10, and Julian Ladouceur, 11, acted quickly earlier this month to find two young tots who had wandered off alone
while playing hide and seek near Mosquito Creek in North Vancouver. See story page 10.

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ishens jailed

Tale of repeated of sexual abuse precedes brothers’ sentencing

Robert Gaister
News Reporter robert@nsnews.com

A disturbing tale of the systemat-
ic sexual abuse of a young girl by
three adult brothers opened a
sentencing hearing on Thursday
that would later see their fates
decided.

The brothers’ crimes were outined in shocking

detail sathin a victim impact statement which defence
lawyers tried to prevent from being read in court.

But B.C. Suprenv: Court Madame Justice Janet
Sinclair Prowse disagreed with their arguments and
invited the vietim, now 22, to read the I -page doc-
ument.

Within minutes 0 td account.
the woman was interrupted by one of the defence
lawyers who chimed a portion of the statement wa
not pertinent because it referred to a brother nor tak-
ing partin the current case. While the judge disagreed
and aliowed the woman to cantinue, the brief inrer
ruption had a profound emotional impact on the
woran who tought back tears as she struggled to
regain her composure.

“Twas a child,” punctuated he ement on sev

ccasions as the woman recounted the personal

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hell that was her childhood.

“The sexual abuse I suffered at the hands of Fred,
Frank and Perry Evanshen happened when I was only
a child. Subsequently, I lost something verv dear. [
lost my virginity” stated the woman. “Today, ifsome-

ere to ask me when J lost my virginity, [would
not Know what to tell them.

“Frank Evanshen forced me to have oral sex with
him. Bur does that count as the time T lost my vir-
init? When was my first time? On that Sunday
morning in 1990, Perry Evanshen made me bleed tor
the first dime. Does thar count? When did I lose my

Does rape count? AIT know is Pwas born

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