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Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1999 14:08:12 -0400
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From: Lynne Moss-Sharman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Sex offender won't resign as Chief
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Native sex offender won't quit as chief
Suzanne Fournier, The Province July 15, 1999
The chief of a small Fraser Valley native band who was convicted of
sexually assaulting his own foster child refuses to resign. Harold Thomas
Henry, 36, who signs his letters "Kwaw Kwaw Apilt Chief" from his cell at
Stave Lake Correctional Centre, is lobbying for early release. He's
enlisted former federal native liaison George Campo to push prison
officials and the native community to get him out of jail for "therapy."
Henry was convicted Jan. 28 of sexually assaulting a boy who was his legal
ward and sentenced to 18 months in jail, making his "probable discharge
date" Jan. 28, 2000.
Stave Lake's director, Tom Cadieux, said: "Just because he holds those
offices as chief, hereditary or not, doesn't change the fact he's doing
time for a serious crime, and we want to see him respond to therapy in the
institution before we let him out for any reason."
While Sto:lo Nation leaders speak out against sexual abuse, member chiefs
such as Henry and Scowlitz Chief John Pennier, both convicted sex
offenders, "send the wrong message that we will tolerate these offences,"
says Lester Ned, spokesman for the Sto:lo chiefs. Indian Affairs can't get
rid of Henry as chief because his band follows "custom" rules rather than
the Indian Act, said department spokesman Toni Timermans. (But neither
will Indian Affairs do anything to get rid of Pennier, an Indian
Act-elected chief who has been convicted of multiple sexual assaults and
faces trial on two new charges.)
Henry's entire Kwaw Kwaw Apilt band has voted to ask him to resign, and
members speculate he wants out of jail not for "native therapy," but "to
cover up financial problems." Sto:lo elders' representative Joe Aleck says
"in our traditional justice system, someone who did harm to a child would
have to step down from any office and go through a very long healing." The
boy Henry is convicted of abusing, who is now 17, has just been charged
with sexually abusing Henry's five-year-old daughter.
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