MORTGAGE AND DEED FRAUD FOR MUNICIPAL TAX ARREARS CERTIFICATE

Retired OPP officer Robert Lewis was sentenced to eight years behind bars in an Orangeville court this morning, following his conviction on sex-related offences involving boys.

“The conduct of Mr. Lewis was particularly disturbing and reprehensible, as on occasion the conduct took place while he was in his police uniform and/or in his police cruiser. I find that conduct disgraceful,” said Superior Court Justice Joseph Fragomeni.

“None of the victims in this case should have to continue to carry the burden of what happened to them and their family,” he added. “A time in their young lives was seriously and significantly compromised.”

Sounds of relief were heard from among two dozen supporters of the victims as Lewis, dressed in a black suit, was handcuffed and led out of the courtroom.

“I can say the judge was very thorough and did a lot of work and a lot of thinking in all aspects of the case, and it’s a sentence the judge found adequate,” a relative of one victim said outside the courtroom. Lewis had been convicted on 19 of 25 charges in June following a 35-day trial that started in May 2009.

The offences, which took place between 1969 and 1994, involved boys, many of whom were in their early teens at the time. Several incidents of molestation occurred in a police cruiser.

Lewis was first charged in August 2006 by Caledon OPP after one complainant came forward. More charges were laid, including several under the old Criminal Code, as nine more persons submitted complaints.

Lewis, 62, of Fenelon Falls, Ont., steadfastly maintained his innocence during the trial. He had retired in 1997 after working 30 years with the OPP in Downsview, Snelgrove (now Caledon), Minaki, Islington and Coboconk townships.

The 10 complainants’ identities and witnesses have been withheld under a publication ban that remains in place despite the verdict.

  •Police bust southside bawdy house •Man charged with keeping common bawdy house •Two women, aged 23 and 24, are facing prostitution charges following a six-month investigation of a suspected bawdy house. •Police began looking into the home at 97th Avenue and 106st Street in December 2010. •Police said they later seized $1,700 in cash and large amounts of paraphernalia related to the sex trade. •Further investigation led police to two other locations they believe are being used as bawdy houses by the women. •"These arrests and charges are a direct result of a lengthy investigation and multi-agency collaboration including Edmonton Police Service and the City of Edmonton’s By-law Services and the community at large," says vice section Staff Sgt. John Fiorilli. •The women face one count each of keeping a common bawdy house and living off the avails of prostitution. •End of Story Content •Back to accessibility links 

Prostitutes, like everyone else, deserve safety     The Montreal Gazette June 18, 2011     Canadians should have realized that prostitution in Canada could never be the same after British Columbia pig farmer Robert Pickton was convicted of the horrific killing of six prostitutes and suspected of murdering dozens more.

As details of the shocking case spread across the country, some prostitutes came to believe their only recourse was to fight against a legal system that put them at heightened risk.

In Canada, prostitution itself is legal, but communicating for the purpose of prostitution is illegal, as is conducting business in a brothel and living off the avails of prostitution. Thus many prostitutes are legally constrained to work in frighteningly vulnerable conditions: alone and in a dark corner, away from prying eyes.



Read more: http://www.vancouversun.com/life/Prostitutes+like+everyone+else+deserve+safety/4969296/story.html#ixzz1PetWtY00

Hookers and booze: Your tax dollars at work

A media relations spokesman for Industry Canada (the minister is Tony Clement) said “department officials take the potential for fraud very seriously.”