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Pre-trial for alleged abuser set for April 6

      

Cornwall Standard Freeholder

 

13 February 2009

 

Posted By STAFF

 

The judicial pre-trial for a retired Ecole Secondaire La Citadelle teacher charged with sexually abusing a former student has been set for April 6.

 

Robert Sabourin, 83, was charged with indecent assault on a male and gross indecency in September 2007.

 

The student was between 14 and 18 at the time of the alleged assaults, which would have taken place between September 1974 and June 1978.

 

Sabourin was previously convicted in 1999 on charges he'd sexually abused four boys between the ages of 12 and 14 three decades earlier.

 

The former photography teacher was sentenced to two years less a day in jail.

 

Two of Sabourin's four victims from that trial testified at the Cornwall Public Inquiry about how their lives were irrevocably changed by his abuse.

 Sabourin is also scheduled to appear in assignment court on April 16. He was not in the courtroom Thursday.
Comments on this Article.

OK so how much of his first sentence did he serve, come on Freeholder tells us the facts and is he going to plead they he was not given a speedy trial like all the others and be set free. 

Reply | Report | Page Top Post #1 By what justice,

So he was charged in September 2007 and he is only now getting to trial no freakin wonder they get freed on time requirements. When will the courts take this seriously and get these trials started sooner. 

Reply | Report | Page Top Post #2 By dodger, 

what justice, I wouldn't hold too much faith in reading what you are looking for in here. It appears that no matter what Osprey writes everyone accuses them of misprinting.

dodger I bet they take it more serious then we think. The major problem is all the special interest groups and issues that come into play. I am not siding with the system at all, but I do know people in it. There are so many policies and procedures that it really takes that long to come to trial. You can thank systems and processes like the charter of rights for these policies and procedures.Personally I think a lead injection is better then sentencing, but apparently that is not fair either. 

Reply | Report | Page Top Post #3 By itinerant

Are any of you going to congratulate Stormont council for the new industry coming to Ingleside?? 

Reply | Report | Page Top Post #4 By itinerant,

Sabpiromn Itinerant,Well then Osprey must be misprinting ,if everyone thinks that way.So why doesn,t osprey then print the whole story.First and foremost serious crimes like these should be speeded up,and if any crimes should go un answered or thrown out of court because of time frames, well then we should let the crimes go that are less serous.I think the people would rather see 10 less serious crimes thrown out of court,than one crime of sexuel abuse.So maybe itinerant you can pass that on to the people you no in the legal system.

 Reply | Report | Page Top Post #5 By luckyred,

Nope the legal system is too busy trying to please everyone.....to no avail 

Reply | Report | Page Top Post #6 By itinerant,

Re: Posts#5 and #6 above and the words written; Issue A) “The major problem is all the special interest groups and issues that come into play.” Also, Issue B) “I am not siding with the system at all, but I do know people in it.” And, Issue C) “There are so many policies and procedures that it really takes that long to come to trial.” Well, Mr. “Itinerant”, the law is the law and that includes the “letter of the law” and the “spirit of the law”.Re: Issue A) I would ask the writer “Itinerant” to define “special interest”, define, “come into play”; (just a couple of examples please) and how they precisely “obstruct justice”, “retard the process of the administration of justice” or “come into play”, as you imply.

Re: Issue B) Please explain the relevance of you knowing people in “the system”. Is this supposed to give credibility to your assertions? Name the names of the “public officials, civil servants”, who have convinced you to believe what you assert.

I mean, I can easily say I know a multitude of people “in the system”, who believe as I do, which is contrary to what you assert. Ask any of your cronies or other friends who know me; they will tell you if they think I know anyone “in the system” and “how high up and wide across”. But, does that really mean anything…who we know?

I ask you, “Itinerant”, do you now or have you ever worked “in the system”, in the context you present here and do you have specific education, expertise, experience and knowledge about the “rules”, “regulations”, “time constraints”, “case management expectations”, “policies”, “protocols” etc.? Or, as I suspect, are you “blindly” relying on the “excuses”, “rationalizations”, “justifications” and “hearsay” of some possibly lazy, incompetent, or corrupt public servants or “assistants”, you meet at the “food court” in “The Square”?

I suggest you are an ignorant and naïve, “wanna-be”, “straw man, surrogate” for some of these public servants and you are spreading inaccurate and misleading information, for whatever reason…..
Re: Issue C) Again, your information is an example of how ignorant and naïve you are and how you have been “misled”. Or, perhaps your comments are simply, a further example of your deliberate attempt to mislead other readers.

I implore you to name or reference some of the “policies” and “procedures” that “cause” it to, “take that long to come to trial.” May I be so bold as to suggest, that the rules, regulations, policies, procedures, time constraints, case management procedures, etc., etc. are readily available and accessible on the internet, for any reader to read and study. FURTHERMORE, the “foundation” so-to-speak; i.e.) rules, regulations, merit, expectations, time constraints, policies, procedure, case management protocol, etc., etc., for “timely” prosecution, among other things, are clearly defined and known by ALL lawyers and Justice in general. May I be so bold as to suggest, that it is my belief and understanding, that for various reasons, lawyers and other justice officials, their agents, representatives and court officials, arbitrarily and/or together, decide, when to “delay”, “retard the process” or basically when to use their power to “circumvent” “due process” and the existing rules, regulations, etc., as written above. So maybe “the practice” in some cases has been as you suggest, but that does not mean that the rules, laws, regulations, protocols, policies, etc., etc., were properly followed, in good faith and in the “interest of justice”.

Boy, isn’t this a lot of “power”, in the hands of some lawyers and other Justice Officials? My, my, my, to be able to “practice” at will, disregarding and circumventing “Justice”. MAKE NO MISTAKE ABOUT IT; there exist laws, yes LAWS, to defeat the attempts to dismiss prosecutions on the merit that is has taken too long to bring to trial. THERE are laws that “toll/stop” any time limitations. Read previous “S-F” letters to the editor. In or about 1998 I wrote about some of those laws and I also, predicted, what would happen and eventually did.
MAKE NO MISTAKE ABOUT IT; NONE of the prosecutions should have been dismissed for delay in prosecution, otherwise and/or equivalent. Furthermore, “the system” knows it all too well.
 So, “Itinerant”, as you have now done for over a year, stop spreading misinformation and hearsay. You I believe, are a very dangerous person “disseminating” misinformation.

Get the facts straight. Stop spreading the “hearsay” and misinformation you picked up at the picnic table beside “Tim’s” on Brookdale……get the picture!! 

Reply | Report | Page Top Post #7 By JAMES "SPEAK OUT",  

 

 
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