BOUNTIFUL, BRITISH COLUMBIA’S CHILD GROW OP SCANDAL
Dear Editor:
This scandal has been perpetuated by a long succession of BC Premiers, Attorneys General and Solicitors General, all of whom can take credit for an abysmal record and the outright failure to protect the children of Bountiful. The Canadian children “transferred” or “reassigned parents” from British Columbia’s long standing polygamous compound, may be but the tip of the iceberg of child abuse, inflicted by Bountiful’s felonious, polygamous males together with their numerous enabling and/or brainwashed wives.
In January 2005 BC Bountiful member Mark Edward Calder, 37 pleaded guilty to transportation of more than 600 images of child pornography while driving from Utah into Canada. Utah District Judge David Winder approved a plea deal that imposed a five-year prison sentence. This information was provided to BC police as there were concerns that these 600 images were of BC children sequestered within the BC Bountiful compound. Of course if that were the case, then transferring and or reassigning children to new parents in Texas makes good criminal sense as it impedes police investigations.
The BC Crown Counsel Act has emasculated BC Police power under the Criminal Code of Canada (CCC). This Act in effect allows Crown Counsels and their political masters to secretly control what laws are enforced and to whom they are applied. Bountiful is a perfect example of why our police are unable to do their job. Our local news media have been reporting on this festering cesspool for years. RCMP have time and time again recommended charges be laid at Bountiful, yet Attorney General Wally Opal and the long list of AGs before him, have refused to allow police to lay those charges, let alone instruct prosecutors to proceed to Court.
Attorney General Opal’s position usurps the CCC, our judges, courts and the Parliament of Canada. His excuse for his inaction is based solely on the opinions of other publicly funded lawyers; an opinion that presupposes how our Judges and courts may or may not rule. This is political irony at its best. BC’s once top Justice, now has the unmitigated gall to shed governmental crocodile tears about his inability to act.
Child abuse of any kind, especially sexual abuse under the guise of religious emancipation is unacceptable. BC children are knowingly being abused, sexually and psychologically. These children are being traded like cattle between “religious” men who are openly engaging in plural sex with post-pubescent children. This is a made in BC scandal from Hell. Premier Campbell, the buck stops with you. Inaction is not an option. Protect these children NOW!
Doug Stead
Coquitlam, BC
