- Reaction score
- 6
- Points
- 410
Well here‘s another direct hit on the credibility of the CIL officer corps as well as some PR the CF really does not need.
http://www.canoe.ca/NewsStand/TorontoSun/News/2003/11/13/256049.html
Perv cadet leader jailed
Prominent Cobourg man sexually abused boys
By ALAN CAIRNS AND PETE FISHER, TORONTO SUN
COBOURG -- A respected businessman who commanded the town‘s army cadets was sentenced yesterday to 15 months in jail for sex assaults on two teens and a 12-year-old boy. Former army regular and photo store owner David Parken, 40, was also given three years‘ probation.
He‘s married with two kids and a member of the Downtown Business Association, Chamber of Commerce and Rotary Club,
In agreed facts read to Superior Court of Ontario Justice Hugh McLean, prosecutor David Thompson detailed how Parken performed more than 150 masturbation sessions with one teen cadet in the showers or change rooms after thrice-weekly jogging sessions.
The boy, one of three young victims who cannot be identified by court order, was 14 when Parken first assaulted him in May 1999, said Thompson. He said the assaults had a "devastating impact" on the victim.
"He has lost his military career, he has health difficulties, he has withdrawn from school, he attempted to overdose and has a sense of shame and embarrassment."
That same spring, the youth and three other teen cadets were lured by Parken into a bizarre hazing ceremony during a Friday night sleepover at the Cobourg armories.
Thompson said that after Parken permitted the teens to drink alcohol, he talked about how deep bonds developed between soldiers.
He suggested the four should bond with him by letting him shave their pubic hair. During the shaving, he said, Parken fondled them.
While the first victim and another 14-year-old trooper ultimately told Cobourg police about the ritual, another two teens refused to cooperate with police. Charges were not laid, but the additional victims were noted in the agreed-upon facts.
Two years earlier, Parken was at a Cobourg home watching the movie Predator with a couple and their two kids, and a niece and nephew, when he struck up a conversation with a 12-year-old boy.
Thompson said that while Parken and the boy talked about the army and weapons, Parken rubbed his hand over the boy‘s military-style shaved head and then put his arm around him.
Parken then ran his hand up his lap and fondled him, despite the boy‘s attempt to push him away. The startled boy jumped up and excused himself from the room, saying the movie was too scary.
Parken pleaded guilty to three sex assaults, but a fourth count was withdrawn.
The charge involved further allegations of masturbation by another teen soldier.
Thompson had asked for a sentence of two years less a day and three years‘ probation.
Defence lawyer Meghan Scott asked that Parken be sentenced to 122 days spent in pre-trial custody, saying Parken was remorseful and "is now fully aware that engaging in this behaviour is wrong and caused harm."
McLean said the facts were "troubling."
He ordered that upon release Parken should avoid parks, swimming pools and daycare centres and not work with anyone under 14 years of age.
http://www.canoe.ca/NewsStand/TorontoSun/News/2003/11/13/256049.html
Perv cadet leader jailed
Prominent Cobourg man sexually abused boys
By ALAN CAIRNS AND PETE FISHER, TORONTO SUN
COBOURG -- A respected businessman who commanded the town‘s army cadets was sentenced yesterday to 15 months in jail for sex assaults on two teens and a 12-year-old boy. Former army regular and photo store owner David Parken, 40, was also given three years‘ probation.
He‘s married with two kids and a member of the Downtown Business Association, Chamber of Commerce and Rotary Club,
In agreed facts read to Superior Court of Ontario Justice Hugh McLean, prosecutor David Thompson detailed how Parken performed more than 150 masturbation sessions with one teen cadet in the showers or change rooms after thrice-weekly jogging sessions.
The boy, one of three young victims who cannot be identified by court order, was 14 when Parken first assaulted him in May 1999, said Thompson. He said the assaults had a "devastating impact" on the victim.
"He has lost his military career, he has health difficulties, he has withdrawn from school, he attempted to overdose and has a sense of shame and embarrassment."
That same spring, the youth and three other teen cadets were lured by Parken into a bizarre hazing ceremony during a Friday night sleepover at the Cobourg armories.
Thompson said that after Parken permitted the teens to drink alcohol, he talked about how deep bonds developed between soldiers.
He suggested the four should bond with him by letting him shave their pubic hair. During the shaving, he said, Parken fondled them.
While the first victim and another 14-year-old trooper ultimately told Cobourg police about the ritual, another two teens refused to cooperate with police. Charges were not laid, but the additional victims were noted in the agreed-upon facts.
Two years earlier, Parken was at a Cobourg home watching the movie Predator with a couple and their two kids, and a niece and nephew, when he struck up a conversation with a 12-year-old boy.
Thompson said that while Parken and the boy talked about the army and weapons, Parken rubbed his hand over the boy‘s military-style shaved head and then put his arm around him.
Parken then ran his hand up his lap and fondled him, despite the boy‘s attempt to push him away. The startled boy jumped up and excused himself from the room, saying the movie was too scary.
Parken pleaded guilty to three sex assaults, but a fourth count was withdrawn.
The charge involved further allegations of masturbation by another teen soldier.
Thompson had asked for a sentence of two years less a day and three years‘ probation.
Defence lawyer Meghan Scott asked that Parken be sentenced to 122 days spent in pre-trial custody, saying Parken was remorseful and "is now fully aware that engaging in this behaviour is wrong and caused harm."
McLean said the facts were "troubling."
He ordered that upon release Parken should avoid parks, swimming pools and daycare centres and not work with anyone under 14 years of age.
