“Anna Marie D'Angelo

News Repor ter
: dangelo@usnews. com

woman testified on
Monday she was s forced at
age 13.to ‘perform oral sex
“ona West. Vancouver man
: “because he said she needed |.

‘sex education.

“He said hé wanted me to tea an
how to be a good fover from, him.
He wanted men to come and thank :
chim for the lover (Cd. be, testified:
the 2 2-year-old woman, :

Her identity is banned from pub-
Jig tion by court order. :
The woman was testifying during
a B.C. Supreme Court trial in which
Franklin): Evanshen,) now 49, is
charged with se ctrally assaulting the
complainant berween 1987) and
1991, when she was 1] to about 15
rs old. Evanshen is also. charged
“with obstructing justice in 1990.
harge nshen’s’ brother. Perry, 38, is
xually: assaulting the’

: Franklin Evanshen

Perry fives in Clarestioim, Alberta.
The Evanshen: brothers pleaded
guilty tothe charges. oe
Ao third -Evanshen | brether,
Frederick 257, pleaded guilty to sev-
ally assaulting the ovoung girl
Frederick (Evanshen’ was (fined
$1,000 on beb. @ for the” sexual
assault. A related charge of obstruct:
ing justice was dropped.
~ On Monday in? B.C. Supreme
Court, Franklinand:- Perry E Saoshen,
dressed in'dark business suits, satin
the prisoner's bow and listened to the
woman. give “Utestimany . before
Madam Justice Janet Sinclair Prowse.
The sexual assaults complainant
testified that Frederick Evanshen, her
mother’s sometimes bovtriend, was

“in business. in the Vancouver area

selling heating machines.:
The woman testified that when.

she was in Grade 8, she babysat reg-

ularly for Franklin Evanshen, a stock

“promoter, and his wife Molly. The

couple lived in the Cypress: Park area

_of West. Vancouver.

The ° complainant testified ' that
first’ sexually

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assaulted her wher she was] bo She
said that she was later forced to per:
ior. oral sev in- Franklin Evaashea’s
sear wheit he drove her, home after
babysitting, She testitied the sexual
assaults inthe ‘ear! occurred weekly.
for about a year. : ‘
“hvery time J resisted, he .said

this was my edacation,” sie testified.
In graphic detail, she discussed
way Franklin Evanshen instruct-

the

ed her ta perform oral sex in the care”

“Lremember being abused: many
times in many places,” she said.

When asked to give specific infor-
mation about the sites of the assaults,

she said: “IE did-nor look around. 1

had my face in somebody's fap.”
Before “an’ incident, she told

Franklin. Fvanshen that her mother”

- said he was one ofther favorite peo-
ple.

“Lwonder if she'd say that if she
knew Twas molesting her daughter,”
othe) emotional woman’ said - was
Franklin Evanshen’s reply. .

In another. incident,
- Franklin Evanshen paid her only $12

for seven hour rs of babysitting when

she said -

he usually gave her $20.

“You didn’t do for me what |
wanted you to”
referring, to oral sex:

The complainant said her mother
abused aleGhol, verbally abused her
and did nen emotionaliy support her
and t her siP ngs. The complainant” 5
sister, wha 16 three years older than
the: complainant, left the “fa sy

c home during ‘the “time. period |i
question and stayed with. relatives
before Mov ing ‘Gut orn her Own.

The complaiians testified that
Perry Exanshen | had: painful, non-_
“consensual sexual intercourse. with”
her in her bedroom room at 5-a.m:

‘one day in 1990, ‘The complainant
was 14. She said Perry. forced her to.
perform oral sex iwice the next day,

She testified’ Perry Evanshen and
his wite and :their, children were visit:
ing. Vancoiver from Alberta’ av.the

time. “The -woinan ‘testified “that ‘she"
told no one of Perry’s assaults because, :

“this was the way life

Testifvirig about events surts
ing the obstrection of justice charge
against; ‘Franklin, thee complainant

she testified he said,» her if she did ne

it was good for.’
g0.to “court” con:
“cerning a sextial assault Investigation:
Frederick Evanshen, “she saidy told -
hescthat. if she spake te: police “and
there was a newspaper report, he'd
lose a stack deal which included all of
her. mother’s: monew. |
The complainant said that at the
time she was likely: going tu be sub-
poenacd she. spent 10. days. cin
Toronto with the Evanshens’ broth-:'
er Teervand his family, five weeks in»
the | Okanagan “-with © Franklin
‘Evanshen, and his family, and then
‘went fo'a cabin near 100: Mile with
Frederick Evanshen and her mother.

“iis “They were trying to keep me our

t

she testified.
Mn. the, carly. 1990s, Frederick

:vanshen received. probation alter © -

being convicted Of sexually assaulting.”
“the: complainant's older sister, ; said:
, Crown lawyer Mark Rowan.) :

“The,” trial continues today. : The’
‘arial: is “scheduled. fo,"run for more |.
than one we ck. .

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_ Robert Gaister

News Reporter robert@nsnews.com

AN early morning blaze in Central f
- Lonsdale on Tuesday morning has".

pur one business out of commis- -
sion and two others temporarily”
“on ice.

*The-fire: started ‘in’. “the North shore Ski

and. Sailbeard ‘store in’ the 1600-block: of

‘Lonsdale Avenue./Although it was contained
to. the one: store: ‘by North V. ancouver City
su stained woke and fire damage. »
The fire was: discovered = t

Rickman, cmanager. at, the adjoining:...
Clove ordale. Paints tore, Who-arrived hortly
“after 6am is
smokey haze:

MT Reard Smething tight ove

of grabbed the (computer)
up tape; “cash drawer. and ran down
idewalk and: lady, on the bus looked:

tore. filled with, a!

Ty, head as as:
141,"-recalled Rickman in the“

“ski shop’ ‘and Ward Music on the other were

“closed Tuesday pending insurance adjusters"
-findings on thee extent of ‘damage within the:
stores.

Vinee. Allen, owner of the’ ski stiop; was
initially. alerted of'a, problem, at-the store by:

his’alarm companys By the, ime he arrived,
firefighters were already hard at work,“

“T went around the. back door, opened it:
and pool, oh’ oh, bac kdratt,: better not” “go
there,” ‘said Allen.
i "Out front, the store's blackened ‘window:

had been, shattered by ‘tirefighters and’ an:

“Arson sign hung, desolately on the remaining:

“security grill
Dennis:

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tore to the ‘damage...
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"quippe Allen upon ccing her.’

the charred. cinains of |

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is more-worried about his:statf’
“One. of those. staff membe

Cousineau, 21, said he found out’

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worth of inver

“blaze an his way to work,

card on the radio that there’ w
shop on Lonsdale,”'s
aren't too. many

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‘stock in the: SLOre’s
and work to o recl