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Froese expected to plead guilty to kidnapping Convicted rapist also charged with sexual assault in Nov. 24 abduction By Tim Petruk STAFF REPORTER tim@kamloopsthisweek.com
A convicted rapist accused of abducting, drugging and sexually assaulting a Kamloops woman last year is apparently ready to come clean. Jack Froese, the 31-year-old serial rapist charged in connection with an incident in North Kamloops last November, is expected to enter guilty pleas in B.C.
Supreme Court as early as next week. Froese is facing counts of kidnapping, sexual assault and administering a noxious substance. It is alleged he violently abducted a Kamloops woman on Nov. 24, 2011, from the Tranquille Road store at which she worked. Police said at the time she was held and sexually assaulted over a period of hours. Mounties also allege
she was drugged during the ordeal. Froese was arrested the following day. He is expected to appear in B.C. Supreme Court on Monday, April 30, to set a date for a guilty plea and sentencing. Froese has a long criminal record, including multiple convictions for violent sexual offences, and has served lengthy terms in federal institutions. According to parole
documents, he has refused treatment in the past. In May 2011, when Froese was released from a federal prison and took up residence with family in Kamloops, he was the subject of a rare warning from the RCMP. Police at the time released his picture, a list of some of his past offences and the conditions he was to abide by in the community. After he was arrested in November, Kamloops RCMP Supt. Yves Lacasse said Mounties checked in on Froese 146 times in the 147 days he was living in Kamloops.
Jack Froese has a long criminal record, including multiple convictions for violent sexual offences
THE FROESE FILE This background information was published in KTW and on kamloopsthisweek.com following Froese’s arrest
in November 2011: Froese has a history of committing violent sexual assaults. According to his most recent decision from the Parole Board of Canada, he also has a history of disobeying release conditions. The decision, dated Feb. 21, 2008, ordered Froese detained for the remainder of his threeyear sentence in a federal penitentiary for sexual assault with a weapon and uttering threats. In the document, the Parole Board of Canada describes Froese as “still likely to commit an offence causing death or
serious bodily harm to another person.” The three-year sentence came after a June 2004 incident in Saskatoon, in which Froese held a hotel worker at knifepoint for 25 minutes as he raped and threatened to kill her. “Throughout the sexual offence, you held a knife at her throat and threatened to kill her if she yelled or resisted your intrusive actions,” the document reads. “This action clearly demonstrated your willingness to brutally harm her if your needs were not satisfied.” X See HIGH RISK A13