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TEACHER GUILTY

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children who have been sexually assaulted by their
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know.”
PREPARE REPORT

The B.C. government asked Crown counsel Barry
Sullivan, who handled the Noyes case, to prepare a report
on sexual abuse in B.C. schools.

Sullivan said it’s difficult to determine whether the
abuse itself is increasing or just the degree to which it is
being uncovered.

“I think there are stresses in our -society that
probably manifest themselves in some kind of an
increased misconduct.”

But “the fact we're teaching children to talk about
things like this much more easily” is also playing an

while he saw at least 10 p: iatrists. He
teach despite complaints from parents in at least two
school districts.

Cases of sexual abuse by teachers are thought to be
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The publicity surrounding last year's Noyes case,
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g role, he said in an interview. “Adults are
starting to take this seriously.”

Since Sullivan’s report was released, the B.C.
Education Ministry has hired a co-ordinator to oversee
programs aimed at preventing sexual abuse in schools.

TRUSTEES ACT

The B.C. School Trustees’ Association, which
prepared its own report, also has hired a co-ordinator for
its sexual abuse programs and curricula.

Lea said such programs will make children more

ing to come swell “Children will at it won't
bri harm to them to talk about it.” «

‘says teachers who abuse children have to be
dated out of the system even if criminal charges against
them don’t hold uy

Br ats goe bu, seuutied for a whole host of
reasons, (such as) a prosecutor forgets to prove |
jurisdication,” he said. “He could easily have committed
the act and our criminal law says he is acquitted.

“In my view, the rights of the children are

mount.”

At the same time, “we certainly don't want to
produce a bunch of stereotyped, cold, aloof
Sullivan said.

FEAR TO TOUCH

‘The increasing attention given to the subject is
making “some teichers feel somewhat inhibited — they
are almost afraid to pat a kid on the head,

“I certainly recognize that any younger child has to
be held. They haven't been out of the nest'very long and
they are going to-cry and things like that.”

Nadine Thomas of the Alberta Teachers’ Association
said members have been advised to be careful in having
any physical contact with students.

Bill Kent of the Ontario Trustees Council said his

group hadn't addressed the matter on a collective basis
“but it's clear when you look at individual boards there is
inereased concern.

“There is a certain sympathy out there for the fine
line that teachers walk.”

DISCUSS LIST

‘The Nova Scotia Teachers’

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Ministry about setting up a registry of kao child
molesters.

“Some teachers are quite concerned,” said union
president Karen Duerden. “A lot are taking precautions
— not staying after school with one student.”

There is some concern that more awareness and
education about sexual abuse could lead to false,

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with second-hand beds, bur-
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“What the parents buy for
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buying for the nursery.”

Tonner says the trend is
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look of cribs and nursery
furniture to a more con
temporary, European style.

CRIBS GET STYLE

Gone are the colonial,
wood-toned cribs trimmed
with bunny or ‘duck pictures.
Now, fashionable infants
sleep in unadorned, white
laminated wood or metal
cribs with hooped head and
footboards, rather than con-
ventional four-poster styles.

Especially popular are
change tables and dressers
that can be adapted to suit
the child five or 10 years
down the road, Tonner says.

Canadians buy about $100
million worth of juvenile fur-
niture and accessories each

College
graduate
nannies

EDMONTON (CP) — Al
berta will soon have its own
college-graduated nannies.

Alberta College has in
troduced a five-month pro-
gram, which included ses.
sions on child development
and nutrition. To be eligible,
students must have a Grade
12 reading comprehension
level, be in good health and
be at least 19.

Similar programs exist in
British Columbia, Ontario

, and the Maritimes.

year for children up to age
four, says Tonner. About
90,000 cribs are sold each
year.

One reason for the greater
care and money lavished on
furnishing childrens’ rooms is
today’s moms and dads are
older and have. more money
and fewer kids than their
parents did, Tonner says.

Parents today are “much
more creative” and are choos-
ing “colorful, fun things” for
the children’s rooms, says
Allan Sheres of Sheres In.
dustries Inc. in Ville D'An
jou, Que.

“They want to have fun in
their home as they do in their
clothes,” adds, Sheres. Al.
though traditional white
French provincial furniture is
still popular, parents might
buy their daughter a pink
tubular bed to accompany it.
he says.

Adaptability is important
as well, he adds. Sheres
manufactures white mela
mine chests and cabinets
which come with four sets of
different colored handles,
permitting pareRtyto change
the look of the furniture to
suit different children or
even different rooms.

“High style means more
money, although that higher
style may be more simple,”
adds Tonner.

One “high style” series
featured at the recent Toron.
to furniture market was a
bedroom based on a auto
theme designed by Concept
Griff Inc. of Brossard, Que.

Car-crazy kids can sleep in
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People like Rolfe, one of an estimated 25,000
Canadians who suffer head injuries each year, have a
hard time finding the extensive rehabilitation many of
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“Head injuries are the silent epidemic,” said Dr.
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community services to help them cope with their injury
and, if necessary, learn to read again or acquire new skills
so they can re a oy

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Atbough | head injuries are widespréad — 200 in
every 100,000 Canadians compared with five in every
100,000 for spinal injuries — they're not well understood
by the public, Stambrook said.

“You've got (Rick) Hansen going across’ Canada,
you've got (Steve) Fonyo,” added Stambrook, who is a
psychologist for people with neurological injuries apd
disabilities.

“It's going to be a frosty day in hell before you see a
head-injured person lobbying for themselves.”

A head injury can cause physical and psychological
side effects as unpredictable as they are devastating.

Damage to certain parts of the brain can leave
victims — at an average age of 25 years — with useless
limbs, spastic muscles, partial deafness or blindness,.
memory loss and uncontrollable mood swings.

such patients is two years.
He added there is a 50 per

Cleanliness is
dangerous

WASHINGTON (REUT-
ER) — Showering, washing
clothes and doing the dishes
may be hazardous to health, a
team of U.S. researchers has
concluded. .

The researchers from the
Environmental Protection
Agency found people are ex-
posed to potentially dan-
gerous levels of chloroform, a
suspected - cancer-causing
agent, simply by taking a
shower or near a
washing machine or a sink
full of dirty dishes soaking in
hot water.

“The average house has
four- to five-times as much

Recovery, which is rarely
years.

In some cases, head-injured wre may appear to
have no physical disabiliti “can't
anything from one moment to the esi Stambrook said.

While the Uriited States has clinics that provide
post-hospital care for the head injuries, many of the more
severe Canadain victims remain in hospital or end up in
homes for the elderly or mentally retarded, none of which
provide the right kind of care or stimulation.

“As soon as they've confined to chronic care and left
to lie there, they're gone,” said Bev Mantell of Ottawa,
who wants to revive a lobby group formed a few years
ago by professionals but which has done little recently.

HELPS HER SON

She spent 12 hours a day for 18 months rehabilitating
her son, injured six years ago in a car. accident.

Part of the problem is that modern science,
well-developed in saving lives, hasn't followed up with
research and facilities to help people after their accidents,
said Stambrook. “We save them for what? A society
that’s ill-prepared to help them.”

“I've had six jobs since my accident, term positions,”
said Rolfe, who estimates he's worked two years since his

ges five

accident six years ago.

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TORONTO (CP) — The Ithada94- -per-cent success
federal government has ap- rate in clinical trials and a
proved the use of a drug to 75-per-cent success rate in
help prevent rejection of kid- cases where conventional
neys in transplant patients. therapy hasn't worked

More than 1,000 Canadians
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Wallace said.

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The finding could help in
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He's an associate scientist
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the Woods Hole Oceanogra-
phic Institution in Woods
Hole, Mass.

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California, Washi state,

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