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PROSTITUTE ASSAULT

HEARI

JAMES VINCENT FORBES appeared for trial
Thursday to face charges of causing bodily harm
while committing a sexual assault and unlawful
confinement involving a 16-year-old self-confessed

prostitute.

The 42-year-old North
Vancouver man faces the
charges in connection with an
April 20 incident that began
in downtown Vancouver and
ended on a quiet North Van-
couver street.

The complainant, whose
‘identity is protected by a
publication ban, testified in
North Yancouver provincial
court that she had worked as
a prostitute three or four

- times since July 1984.

She told the court tha: she
left her room in Vancouver’s
Gifford Hotel on April 20 at
approximately 11:30 a.m. on
her way to see a friend in

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North Vancouver. She said
she stopped on the way to
talk to friends between
Seymour and Richards
Streets at approximately
12:30 p.m.

Soon after, the complai-
nant told the court, a red
Toyota Celica pulled up. A
man asked her if she was
working. The complainant
testified that her answer was,
“rT don’t work a lot, but are
you looking for company.”

The Celica driver said he
wanted sexual intercourse
and oral sex, the complainant

told the court: ‘‘He asked me
how much and I told him
$100. He said he would give
me $80.""

The complainant said the
driver then insisted the two
go to North Vancouver and
agreed to pay her $100.

When asked by Crown
prosecutor K.J.Connor if the
driver of the car was in the
courtroom, the complainant
said yes and pointed to the
accused,

The complainant told the
court she got in the Celica at
1:00 p.m. and drove with the
accused to 686 East Kings
Street in North Vancouver.

Once in a bedroom of the
house, the complainant
testified that she asked for
the “‘cash first’’. The accus-
ed, she said, ‘‘then punched
me three times in the stomach
and once in the face with his
ist.”*

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She told the court that the
accused then told her to take
her clothes of f and demanded
oral sex. After performing
oral sex, the complainant
told the court that the accus-
ed demanded she lie on top of
him. In this position she said
the accused ‘‘told me to be a
good girl and daddy will be
good to you, if you're bad,
daddy will punish you.”

The complainant said she
was subsequently
downstairs where the accused
bound her wrists with a belt.
Saying she did not want to be
tied up, the complainant said
she bit the accused in the left
arm to which he said ‘you
shouldn’t have done that.’’

The complainant told the
court that the accused punch-
ed her in the stomach again
and began choking her. He
then, she said, whipped her
six times across the back and

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After again performing
oral sex on the accused, the
complainant said she escaped
when he went to the kit-

chen. She ran across the
street to a neighbouring
house.

Repeatedly objecting to
what he said were feading
questions to the complainant
from the Crown, defence
lawyer Neil Fleishman accus-
ed the Crown of withholding
evidence.

Fleishman told the court
that color photographs
entered as exhibits in the trial
had been delivered to the
defence the morning of the
trial: ‘‘These photographs
were taken two months ago.
Why didn’t we get them
before this morning?
Something is very wrong

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Fleishman over what he said
were doctored photographs
in the offending exhibits,
prompted Judge J.D. Layton
to change trial proceedings to
a preliminary hearing.
Defence re-elected to a trial
by judge and jury.

The complainant later
broke down under
defence cross-examination,
as Fleishman repeatedly ask-
ed her why, after first being
struck by the accused, ‘‘you
didn’t get out of there?”’

The complainant denied
Fleishman’s suggestion that
she stayed because she
wanted the money: ‘I was
scared, the money didn’t
mean anything to me at that
point. | didn’t run because |
thought he would hurt me. I
didn’t know what he was go-
ing to do.”’ .

The hearing continues July

Elementary
honors

PEERING from
behind scholarly
glasses, five-year-old
Elizabeth stands at
attention with her
classmates from
Capilano Elementary
School’s graduating
Kindergarten class.
The girls were dress-
ed in white and the
boys wore white
shirts and dark pants
— and ail had the
honor of wearing
mortarboard caps.
With students now
on summer holidays,
motorists are asked
to be more cautious
than ever of
youngsters crossing
the streets,