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Winter wonderland Michael Patterson accompanied his golden retriever on a trip to the top of Alouette Mountain back in mid-November, when there was about a foot of snow.
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Two men charged in connection with Pitt rave Victim has changed schools because of bullying but she says she’s getting “much stronger” than before. Amy Judd
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The victimization of a 16-year-old girl who was allegedly sexually assaulted at a rave party last September has not ended. In a statement to the media on Thursday on her and her family’s behalf, Sgt. Peter Thiessen, spokesperson for the RCMP Lower Mainland District Regional Police Service, said “our daughter has been bullied and has had to leave school.” In the statement, the girl said “to
the people who did not support me, who called me names, who spread lies about me, thank you because you made me much stronger than I’ve ever been before.” Two men were charged on Wednesday in connection with the sexual assault. Both have been released with the promise to appear in court on Jan. 12. Dennis John Allen Warrington, 19, of Langley, has been charged with making and distributing child pornography. Thiessen said he was arrested at a home he frequents in Maple Ridge on Wednesday. Another man, Colton Ashton McMorris, 18, from Maple Ridge has been charged with sexual assault. He turned himself in to police along with his legal counsel, and was the man
previously arrested and then released. Charges have already been approved against a 16-year-old from Maple Ridge for the production and distribution of child pornography. Ridge Meadows RCMP do not anticipate making any further arrests on the case at this time, according to Thiessen. “Initially we did say and we still do feel that there was more than one suspect involved in this sexual assault,” he said. “The information that we received from witnesses, statements that we received, clearly indicated in our minds that that was the case, however bringing that before the courts is a whole other issue.” Thiessen said that at this point police do not have the evidence to support the allegations and statements in regards to further charges.
What is being referred to as a ‘code of silence’ still exists among many young people that attended the rave, according to police, and those people, most of them teenagers, are not cooperating with the investigation. “They know who they are, we have spoken to those individuals, they do have an opportunity to clear themselves if they choose to, they have not chosen to,” said Thiessen. Police also released details of a toxicology test taken from the girl about 20 hours after the alleged assault. “The test came back negative for any alcohol or for any drug at the time of the testing,” said Thiessen. Continued on page A3 ...
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