RCMP officer and wife face multiple charges in child abuse investigation

[puckstopshere]

An RCMP officer and his wife are facing multiple abuse and sex-related charges following a child abuse investigation in Ottawa that police say involves more than one victim.

Police say the 41-year-old officer and 34-year-old wife are charged with several counts of aggravated assault, assault with weapon, aggravated sexual assault, forcible confinement and failing to provide the necessaries of life.

In order to protect the identity of the victims, names of the couple have not been released, police say. Nor will they say how many children were involved.

“There is more than one but we’re not (saying) how many,” said Ottawa police acting Staff Sergeant Francois D’Aoust.

A police official, speaking on condition of anonymity because the person isn’t authorized to speak publicly, said the investigation was launched after an 11-year-old child was discovered wandering in a residential neighbourhood.

It’s believed handcuffs were used to keep the child for months in the basement of a house, the source said.

The RCMP officer was arrested Tuesday after an investigation at his residence.

The Mounties said he has not been on active duty since May, 2011, although they would not give a reason.

He was suspended with pay on Wednesday after being arrested and is now facing an internal investigation, said RCMP Corporal Lucy Shorey.

Both of the accused appeared in court Thursday. The officer’s wife was expected to go before a judge Friday to set a date for a bail hearing.

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[almond_t]

What a sad, horrible situation 😞

A neighbor interviewed said the boy was begging for water. 

It's incomprehensible to me how something like this could transpire; a child is sacred.

[pigdog47]

It is completely comprehensible to me.  If someone believes that "people are basically good", then acts of brutal inhumanity like this one are harder to comprehend.

[007steveb16]

Every time a story like this comes to light it makes me think of all the things that are going on around us that haven't been "found out"

I mean people passed by that house, probably even a few patrol cars while it was happening but how could you have a clue right as these things are hidden, buried away in basements.

But it was existing while they passed by this house and now people know but that same situation exists somewhere else, where people are passing by a house and have no clue what is going on inside because it hasn't been discovered...

[puckstopshere]

Every time a story like this comes to light it makes me think of all the things that are going on around us that haven't been "found out"

One could not begin to comprehend or even imagine, the things that are done to innocent children by so called adults - especially parents.  As a foster parent for 15 years - and over 300 kids - I have seen more than I wanted.

Kids who have been beaten with evey object imagineable.

Kids who have been burned.

Kids who have been cut.

Kids who have been starved - of food and of any kind of affection.

Kids who have been threatened with loaded guns.

Kids who have walked barefoot through broken glass in their own home - the result of an alcohlic mother who smashed liquor bottles against the walls.

Kids whose parents allowed diseases and illnesses to go untreated.

Kids (some as young as 18 months) left alone for days and days.

Young boys and girls whose prostitute mom or pimp fathers have sold them for sex with adults.

Babies who were addicted to drugs from the moment they were born.

Kids who died at the hands of parents, both intentionally and through neglect. 

If there is a way of abusing a kid that some parent has not tried, I would be amazed

[prior-of-verity*shake-hands-with-your-devil]

I watched a documentary the other night  ‘Just Melvin Just Evil’. I’ve seem a lot of documentaries and seen a lot in real life but I found this the most disturbing albeit honest of documentaries that I have seen about this subject. It’s a documentary made by the grandson of a man who got involved with three women and of course the three women all had three daughters each and they all suffered. Three of the daughter were this man’s biological daughters but that didn’t matter to him. He did have one son and based on the interview with that son …..he’s following in his father’s footsteps.

The documentary is a real life portrayal in spades as to the long term effects on children who have been assaulted……. children who become adults….and adults who lead troubled lives or the problem becomes generational. These are the people who we often see on the streets, or we see in newspaper headlines, or read about after they have taken their own lives. This is why I often say that when you see a criminal, look back on their lives as children and most often you will find that they became who they are because of how they were treated as a child.  

Children are born into this world innocent. They are clean slates. Their teachers...parents, friends and society are those who write on the slate.

[007steveb16]

Kids learn what they live.

Back in grade school there was a kid named Cody....he gravitated to me for some reason and although he wasn't in my "core" group of friends we'd often play together at recess.

He was pretty much constantly in trouble, biting, punching, kicking, yelling, swearing...you name it. Everyday he did something it seemed.

The teachers noticed that he was playing with me and my mom at that time was a volunteer recess supervisor. A teacher suggested to my mom that she try to arrange a couple play dates outside of school because she felt my good nature could maybe rub off on him.

So my mom took care of it and he came over a couple times in the following weeks. Then came time for me to go "there", to his house. Now I was only 8 or so at the time so my memory isn't perfect but I remember being scared the WHOLE time I was there. His dad was well let's just say the "root" of everything Cody had become. I vaguely remember that Cody got in trouble while I was there and his dad went on a tirade, even directing some of it towards me. Cody told me later that day that he was lucky I was there...I remember him telling me that SO clearly.....I never went back there, of course had told my parents everything....

Moving ahead in time.....My daughter started jr jk this year and soon came home with stories of "a boy is hitting me", he's always in trouble with the teachers, he hits everybody. I felt so helpless, someone abusing my child...it being another child. The teachers assured us it's being VERY closely monitored but still as a parent you want to be there to protect your child.

Now I've completely lost touch with Cody since grade school but good old Facebook can connect you in so many ways. By chance, his gf commented on a post of my wife's friend and the photo was of her and Cody. Pretty crazy how you can recognize someone after not seeing them for 20 or so years. I thought wow, small world.....I had no clue what was next....

My daughter isn't a bus student and we pick her up everyday. One day while picking her up, there was a little boy waiting, also getting picked up...my daughter tugged on my arm "daddy, that's Seth...he's the one who is bad"......not like I was going to confront the kid but seeing him made me cringe inside.

As we were walking away a man walks around the corner in front of us and I had to do a take two.....he goes over to where Seth is waiting with the teacher and she hands him over, gestures to the man with a thumbs down and I hear something about "a bad day" mentioned...the man takes the boy by the hand and turns back towards me. It's Cody....Seth is his son...