James Foster, Moncton, N.B. (Times & Transcript) – A former Codiac Regional RCMP officer who molested his own young relatives over decades was handed a four-year term in federal penitentiary yesterday.
The name of the man, 52, is banned from publication by court order. When Crown attorney William Richards asked for the usual ban on the publication of any information that could identify the victims in the case, it prompted defence lawyer James Letcher to ask the court to extend that ban to the accused’s name, given that one of the seven sex charges was attempted incest. The Crown said nothing when asked by Judge Irwin Lampert if he objected to a publication ban extending to the man’s name.
In all, the man preyed on two daughters, one son, one grandson and two nephews starting in the 1980s and ending last year.
Provincial court Judge Irwin Lampert called the victims’ statements “absolutely heartbreaking.”
Richards and Letcher made a joint submission for the four-year sentence, which Lampert agreed to considering the man’s lack of a criminal record and quick guilty pleas to all seven charges which saved the devastated victims from having to publicly testify about the abuse. The accused declined an offer to address the court.
The former police officer who worked in Moncton as well as outside the province had attempted suicide when the matters came to light and has spent weeks as a psychiatric inpatient and still requires medication. His career as a cop came to an end at that time as well.
The incidents occurred around the province as well as outside New Brunswick.
They included attempting to commit incest on his daughter who he tried to have sexual intercourse with when she was in Grade 1 in the 1980s. He stopped when she screamed during his attempt.
The details of another charge stated that between 1988 and 1991, the man would drive around and convince the child to fondle him.
Two other charges involved him bathing two sisters and one brother. The man got into the tub with the children and got them to touch him sexually, and then to touch each other.
Another time he fondled his four-year-old grandson.
Two other charges stemmed from fondling very young male relatives, including an incident of oral sex. None of the victims were older than 10 years old when the incidents occurred and the youngest victim was age four.
Letcher stressed how, as a former officer and a current sex offender, the man would have a very rough time while behind bars where other inmates consider those two types of offenders the very worst and treat them accordingly. The defence also argued the court should order authorities to place the man in a special sex-offender’s rehabilitation facility inside Dorchester Penitentiary, but the court declined to do so, with Lampert saying prison authorities would be the best judge of where the man should serve his time.
As he was sentenced, the man gave a heavy sigh and was immediately escorted to jail by sheriff’s deputies. The man has already submitted a sample of his DNA to the national crime databank and has registered as a sex offender.
I understand what you are saying, but I do not support your entire treatise.
My experiences differ.
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I didnt say that experience gives you instant credibility for the entire population.I`m just saying if you haven`t been there,you dont realy know do you?I guess you just dont understand what the child goes through.Bringing it out at this point,when some of the victims are so young,does nothing but put them through more hell.As soon as people find out,they the victims are treated differently.Non family members,outsiders and even in a lot of cases,friends,look at the victim in a different negitive way,without even realizing that they are treating the victims differently. Thereby making the victims once again blame themselves.It is a very sensitive circle of mixed emotions.Believe me when I say a lot of times that makes the person worse off and they then take it out on themselves.DEEPTHROAT,I really do understand what you are saying and I do agree with some of it.But being there myself,(to hell and back)I was only trying to get you to see the other side of it all.Is it really asking too much for you to open your heart to see what I am saying?
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Your assumption of “oviously never been there or experienced any child abuse or else they might understand how these things work” (sic) is incorrect. Just as your assumption of the secrecy is incorrect. Your experience does not give you instant credibility for the entire population in respect of methodology. Yours is opinion just like my opinion, an opinion. Buy time? Zero to conviction and sentencing not long enough?
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The veil of secrecy,(as you call it),actually helps the victims by buying them some time to recoup or get therepy or what ever they need to heal.Let them grow up a little,so that they have time to understand how it wasnt their fault.Deep throat has oviously never been there or experienced any child abuse or else they might understand how these things work.Sometimes leaving things in the dark for awhile works.Like I said,it will come out eventually,,it usually does,but give these children time to get through the really hard part before you put them through any more hell then they are already in.
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I agree with y_…it’s not our story to tell…this invovled very young children..with the exception of his 3 children the other one that was involved , his grandson. is still under the age of 5. ” Hiding things”..as you so eloquently put it..depends on how you look at it…for those who don’t know and wonder who it was..could call it hiding…for those of us who do know and all the innocents that were involved would call it making sure they get the help that is needed to cope with this horror.
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Bearing in mind what you just said, how does the veil of secrecy actually help the victims?
Long ago if you were from a broken home there was a stigma attached. We have risen above that sort of mentality. We no longer blame the victims for their fate in such areas as abuse because we have aired the issues to the point where we know the mechanics, who is responsible, and we deal with the situations. But there remains a desire to lock part of it away. Who are we really helping by hiding things? The victims in this case you state are very young children. You keep repeating that. Just tell me how hiding this refuse helps them.
And if it comes out eventually, why cover up now??
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The main reason why the cloak is because some of the victims are very young children.It is to protect them.At this point in time dont you think they have been through enough?I wonder if Deepthroat has or had been abused and if the shoe was on the other foot,and they went through the same thing,I wonder how they would have made it through life.Its always so easy to say something,but if you havent actually experienced it,you can look at things totally different.Being a survivor of child abuse myself,Its really hard for me,knowing who this person is,and not be able to disclose him.I tryed disclosing my abuser but no body would listen,,but it finially came out eventually cause after many many years of therepy,i finially got the courage to do something about it and went to the police.The case went on for about a year and 1/2.but didnt really go anywhere.I didnt want money or compensation,I just wanted him and all his dirty deeds out in the open and exposed him.But on this case,,I made a promise not to disclose this man,strickly because of the children involved.One thing to think about,,,Deepthroat,,it will come out eventually.It is just a question of time.
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A dubious enclave is formed with the best of intentions. They know who molested them and no doubt have had and are in some form of therapy to assist them. When this trash moves to another area, maybe or maybe not he will be exposed, probably arrested again and the news will not travel back?
I am not totally convinced that the secrecy is immeasurably beneficial to the victims. In this day and age we acknowledge such travesties occur and that the victims are just that victims not participants or offenders themselves.
To think that persons close to the families have maintained complete silence is silly. They have and should warn others. Tucking it all behind a cloak is not the answer.
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The reason I can`t just “spill it”,Deepthroat is because there are underage children involved.That is the reason why his name wasn`t released in the first place.
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No y_ you do not have to spill it. By all means continue the cone of silence. Let this refuse hide his identity and once out of jail perpetrate his activity on some unsuspecting new target, in a new area.
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I stand corrected…if it’s the same one that lived on Anne Street
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I dont know how you can know that for a fact,,that he is outwest in prison,,,I happen to know that is wrong,,,he isnt out west.He is still around.To “Deep Throat”I dont have to spill it anonyously here,or anywhere.I know who this man is.
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He isn’t around anymore ..He is outwest in prison..that I know for a fact
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maybe she/he wants to leave names out of it on this page…I am sure they can find out by some other means…ie..they can exchange email
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If she really knew she would spill it anonymously here. Publication bans only apply to the media and applicable officials.
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If I’m not mistaking all these decissions are made behind closed doors because Lawyers negotiate these kind of things between themselves to see how they can get the best deal for these upper class clients or police officers.
Any other person’s name would be plastered accross the media and so if they don’t get a conditional discharge or their names blotted out of the messy sexual assault data base they just get slap on the risk like the Roman Catholic Priest did in the past and they get transfered.
It’s a stinking system we have where some get protection while others get the full force of the law…. it’s called justice and it all depends where you are on the ladder.
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How do I ask cindyl about this.I do know who this is
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I think I know who it is….
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is there any way to find out who this officer`s name is.I think I may be related.
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