Crime - Hemlock rapist gets
20 years
Bragg Creek man sentenced in multiple rape case
By Pamela Roth
Staff Reporter
A Bragg Creek man who admitted to raping four women after breaking into
their Calgary homes more than 13 years ago will spend the next 20 years
of his life behind bars.
Sixty-two-year-old Emile Joseph Cromwell appeared in a Calgary Provincial
Courtroom for the sentencing last Thursday and showed no emotion as Judge
Anne Brown read to the court the verdict, along with her reasons for the
sentence.
According to Brown, the attacks, which spanned from 1988 and 1992, raised
great public fear throughout the city and found them to be carefully planned
and calculated.
Although defence lawyer Larry Ross claimed the attacks were towards the
lower end of the criminal spectrum when compared to other crimes of its
kind, Judge Brown disagreed saying she found the crimes to be on the high
end of the spectrum
“Based on the many common factors of the assaults, there were additional
aspects, some shared by more than one of the victims, others uniquely
horrifying,” said Judge Brown. “Each of the victims suffered
long-lasting psychological damage.”
The sexual assaults occurred when Cromwell, then in his 40s, sexually
assaulted three young women in their 20s and one 13-year-old girl in an
apartment complex on Hemlock Crescent in the Calgary neighbourhood of
Spruce Cliff.
All four of the victims were awoken and attacked by Cromwell in the middle
of the night.
Feds step into gas plant fray
By Laurel Nadon
Staff Reporter
Residents aren’t the only ones watching the situation closely at
the Turner Valley Gas Plant.
Environment Canada is performing its own investigation on whether the
province has broken any regulations through the Fisheries Act.
This information was included in a letter from Linda Abrams, a business
owner in Black Diamond, sent to Gary Mar, Minister of Community Development.
The letter was passed on to Black Diamond town council at its meeting
on Wednesday, Dec. 7.
Ryan Levitt, an enforcement officer with Environment Canada, said the
file was opened on Oct. 24, 2005.
“We open an investigation file when there’s reason to believe
there has been an offence committed under a legislation,” Levitt
said.
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Candy Christmas
Shannon Kleibrink was back at the Okotoks
Curling Club on Monday decked out in her Team Canada gear after earning
the right to represent Canada at the 2006 Winter Olympic Games in
Italy by winning the Olympic Trial in Halifax on Saturday. For complete
story see Sports in Sec. II. photo by John Barlow
Health - Outbreak of whooping cough hits region
By John Barlow
Editor
An outbreak of whooping cough in Black Diamond and Turner
Valley has the Calgary Health Region on alert.
Since early November 10 cases of pertussis, or whooping cough, have
been reported in young teens in the two communities. Eight of the
10 cases occurred in Black Diamond.
“We have not seen a clustering like this is some time,”
said Dr. Judy MacDonald, deputy medical officer for the Calgary Health
Region. “But this is what it does and I am not surprised.”
As a result of the outbreak each student in Grade 7 and 8 at C.Ian
McLaren School in Black Diamond was vaccinated for pertussis. The
students would have received the inoculations when they were in Grade
9.
“The shots were given early to try and stop the spread of the
bacteria in the Black Diamond school,” said MacDonald.
Students in Turner Valley were not vaccinated.
MacDonald explained that whooping cough is most serious in children
under one year of age.
Pertussis goes through various stages. The first stage includes symptoms
similar to a common cold such as runny nose, low fever and a mild
irritating cough.
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