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Baal@nym.panta-rhei.eu.org says...
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>Brandon D Cartwright wrote in alt.support.boy-lovers on February 8, 2009
>02:56 in Message-ID: <ln3to4l7u1dns4phj0vl31k0tq1ml0l2k1@4ax.com>:
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>> 31 arrested in child porn sweep: Ont. police
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>> http://www.globaltv.com/globaltv/saskatoon/story.html?id=1256653
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><Sigh> Here we go again, with another of Julian Fantino's "name and shame"
>campaigns, led by one of Ontario's most sleazy cops.
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>If I recall correctly, this is the third time that he's done this. His first
>such campaign was during Operation Snowball, the Canadian arm of Operation
>Landslide/Ore.
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>As some of you may recall, James LeCraw was one of those parties named and
>shamed by Chief Fantino. The Crown decided to drop the charges against
>Mr. LeCraw, but the attendant publicity surrounding the original name and
>shame press conference absolutely destroyed his reputation. He lost his job,
>his friends, his home, and ultimately, his will to live. He committed
>suicide a little over a year after Fantino's press-conference.
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>This kind of activity makes a mockery of the justice system. Nothing like
>trying someone in the media before they get their day in court. James LeCraw
>had his day in court, and the charges were withdrawn, but the damage was
>already done. As he stated in the note left for his family:
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> "There is no such thing as innocence, just unproven guilt."
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Quite so. There have been suicides in the US also.
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