Fox teacher faces charge
By Jennifer Saltman and Simone Blais - Staff Reporters

A teacher at Terry Fox Secondary was arrested last week on charges of sexual exploitation. Gordon Belec, a 36-year-old Maple Ridge resident, has been charged with one count of sexual exploitation of a minor. Police say Belec, a Grade 11 English teacher, is alleged to have been in a relationship with a student from the school.

While the court proceedings for the Terry Fox Secondary teacher who was allegedly "romantically involved" with a student have yet to begin, a Centennial Secondary teacher started his conditional sentence last month after pleading guilty to charges under the same Criminal Code of Canada section. The NOW has learned that Scott Bancroft, a teacher at Centennial Secondary who also coached extra-curricular sports teams, pleaded guilty to one charge of inappropriate touching of a minor for a sexual purpose in December.

Ex-shrink-cum-lover claims he was harassed
Former patient of psychiatrist jailed for alleged threat
Joey Thompson, The Province
Published: Wednesday, January 03, 2007

A mental patient who complained to officials about her lengthy, subservient affair with then-treating psychiatrist Richard Golden has been charged with harassment after the former shrink called police on her.

Former Williams Lake Secondary School teacher David Michael Young admitted to having a sexual relationship with a 15-year-old student, and has now lost his teaching license for the second time, according to a British Columbia College of Teachers web posting. Young, 36, admitted to and was found guilty of professional misconduct.

Sex-abused patients left twisting in the wind
Ousted shrink's legal fund won't redress harm to these victims
Joey Thompson, The Province Published: Friday, December 29, 2006

Whenever someone seeks redress from a medical wrongdoer, the odds are heavily weighted in a doctor's favour. Indeed, the patients currently suing ousted psychiatrist Richard Golden likely stand a better chance winning a lottery than collecting compensation from the sex predator should a civil court find him liable.

Victims of predatory doctor given few options
MDs' college sues doc for costs but fails to aid his abused patients
Joey Thompson, The Province
Published: Wednesday, November 22, 2006

The organization that keeps watch over B.C. doctors is seeking to recover its out-of-pocket expenses for the inquiry and subsequent register removal of former psychiatrist Richard Golden. Yet, as a victim points out, the College of Physicians and Surgeons has done zip to help those whose gallant actions halted the sexual predator before he could break in a new crop of emotionally-shaky patients.

Worker accused of sex with resident
The Canadian Press
Published: Tuesday, November 14, 2006

MISSISSAUGA, Ont. -- A 39-year-old female youth worker has been charged after an alleged sexual relationship with a 15-year-old boy she was designated to counsel. Police allege the accused and the victim, a resident of the Peel Children's Centre, engaged in a sexual relationship between July and October this year. Satvir Sodhi of Brampton, Ont., has been charged with sexual exploitation. © The Vancouver Province 2006

Historical assault charges
www.surreyleader.com
By Justin Beddall, Staff Reporter
Nov 15 2006

The executive director of Surrey Metis Family Services was arrested Wednesday and flown to Toronto to face child sexual assault charges. Bill Lee, 67, was inside the office of the Surrey advocacy society when police executed a Canada-wide warrant that had been issued for a pair of assaults that occurred in the 1970s. According to Toronto police, the victims who came forward with information a week and a half ago, were between six and 11 years old at the time of the alleged assaults.

Metis group director held on sex counts
The Province; News Services
Published: Tuesday, November 14, 2006

The executive director of a Metis group in Surrey faces sexual-assault charges in Ontario that date back nearly 20 years. Toronto police say the charges against Bill Lee, 67, of Surrey involve allegations from two children who were between six and 11 years old at the time of the alleged incidents. Lee, who is with Metis Family Services, faces five counts of indecent assault and two counts of buggery. He is to appear in a Toronto court tomorrow after being arrested in Toronto last week on a Canada-wide warrant. © The Vancouver Province 2006

Time served for sex exploitation
By CHERYL WIERDA
Abbotsford News Nov 11 2006

Roelof “Rollie” Vos has finished serving his jail time on a charge of sexual exploitation. On Thursday afternoon, Justice Brian Joyce sentenced the 40-year-old karate school operator to one day in jail in addition to the equivalent of five months already served. (He was given the usual two-to-one credit for the two and a half months he served prior to his sentencing).

RCMP reopen Richmond firehall probe
Claims are that dozens of firefighters were involved
Ian Austin, The Province
Published: Wednesday, November 08, 2006

The RCMP have reopened their investigation into allegations that dozens of Richmond firefighters sexually assaulted three teenage girls in the 1970s. Cpl. Peter Thiessen said a person came forward with information, and an investigation that was dropped in the 1990s has been reopened. "She apparently approached a lawyer, who approached the RCMP," said Bryce Gilfillan, a fire captain for 18 years who said he was ostracized and forced to retire after co-operating with the earlier probe.

Third investigation into teacher’s conduct
The Langley Times - November 03 2006
By Natasha Jones
Times Reporter

A Langley teacher at the centre of allegations of abuse is facing a third investigation. The B.C. College of Teachers confirmed on Wednesday that it is conducting its own probe of Mary Ann Coren, 53. The probe, said BCCT spokesman Mykle Ludvigsen, is based on reports from Langley RCMP. In early October, police charged Coren with four counts of assault alleged to have involved four students.

Doctors' group should pursue ex-psychiatrist
Agency isn't legally bound to do so but should be morally
Joey Thompson, The Province
Published: Wednesday, October 25, 2006

Members of the psychiatric community should do what's morally just and take their findings about a disgraced ex-psychiatrist to the city's sex- crimes investigators for review. Police don't have to wait for the three victims of sex pervert Richard Golden to surface before igniting a criminal investigation into the man's shameful conduct, sex-crimes unit boss Sgt. Darcy Taylor told me

'It surprised me her underwear came off'
Former Quest mentor Tom Ellison takes stand in indecent-assault trial
Susan Lazaruk, The Province
Published: Wednesday, October 25, 2006

A former teacher testified at his sex-crimes trial yesterday that he was "surprised" when he pulled the underwear off of a struggling female student in a classroom. Tom Ellison took the stand for the first time in his own defence yesterday, disputing the testimony of one of the complainants in his trial and explaining one case of indecent assault as accidental.

U.S. sex offender serving sentence in Canada arrested at Canada-U.S. border

ST. CATHARINES, Ont. - An American schoolteacher sentenced to three years' probation in Canada for a sex offence involving a teen was reportedly arrested Thursday when he tried to enter the country from the United States.

In this doctor's case, let justice be served
He sexually abused young patients and now pleads illness
Joey Thompson, The Province
Published: Monday, October 23, 2006

There may be many reasons why sexual predator and former psychiatrist Richard Golden's victims have chosen not to lodge complaints with police.
But I can't find them. Which is why this is partly a pep talk to the emotionally fragile patients who emerged from disturbed families to beg the then-noted specialist to help them become whole again -- and were kicked in the teeth for trusting.

Surrey teacher to go to trial
Tom Zytaruk

Surrey teacher Samuel Van Ieperen has been committed to stand trial in B.C. Supreme Court on one count of possession of child pornography. His preliminary hearing, which was heard over a day and a half in Surrey provincial court, wrapped up Thursday. He is to appear in court in New Westminster on Nov. 23 to fix a date for his trial.

'Standards same today as in 1972'
Registrar says kids come first
Susan Lazaruk, The Province
Published: Friday, October 20, 2006

It was just as unethical for teachers to have sex with their students 30 years ago as it is today, the head of the B.C. College of Teachers said yesterday. College registrar Marie Kerchum testified yesterday at former Prince of Wales teacher Tom Ellison's trial. Ellison's charged with 16 counts of gross indecency and indecent assault against teen female students at the school for a decade beginning in 1972.

Ex-principal says he would have fired Ellison, court hears
Susan Lazaruk, The Province
Published: Wednesday, October 18, 2006

An ex-Prince of Wales principal said yesterday he would have fired teacher Tom Ellison if he had known of his sexual activity with students.
But John Chalk, principal from 1982 to '88 at the Vancouver west-side school, told a court he had no direct knowledge of any inappropriate contact between teachers in the experimental Quest program and their teen female students.

Pupil who had sex with her teacher dated him for 13 years, court hears
Woman says first sexual experience with him took place when she was 16
Susan Lazaruk, The Province
Published: Tuesday, October 17, 2006

A woman who regularly had sex with her high-school teacher throughout Grade 12 testified yesterday she continued a 13-year relationship with him after school ended. Bridget Ross, now 44, told a Vancouver Provincial Court judge she remembered being "shocked" when her teacher, Tom Ellison, digitally penetrated her while she took her turn sharing sleeping quarters with him on a school sailing trip when she was 16.

Teacher remembered different ways
SEX WITH STUDENTS: Tom Ellison was 'persistent' in his advances, testifies one woman; 'young and cool,' claims another
Susan Lazaruk, The Province
Published: Sunday, October 15, 2006

The emotionally charged trial of a former high-school teacher who admitted to sexual activity with several female students ended its first week with fiery testimony from one ex-student -- and warm memories from another.

I knew I was seduced, says witness
Teacher introduced me to oral sex during school sailing trip
Susan Lazaruk, The Province
Published: Friday, October 13, 2006

A student of the former teacher accused of 16 sexual crimes against teenage girls broke down on the stand yesterday as she recounted the first time he seduced her, on a summer sailing trip. The woman took a moment to compose herself and daubed her face with a tissue as she recalled that she begged off a side kayaking trip on the school-sponsored sailing trip to the Queen Charlottes in 1981 because she was suffering from hay fever. Instead, she engaged in oral sex on the boat with her teacher, Tom Ellison.

Keep tabs on abusive teachers so they don't strike again
Michael Smyth, The Province
Published: Thursday, October 12, 2006

The sensational and salacious criminal trial of former schoolteacher Tom Ellison serves as a stark reminder of the potential dangers posed to our kids in B.C. public schools. It should also serve as a swift kick in the pants to a provincial government that seems to have forgotten its promise to protect children from abusive teachers.