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Another attempted sexual assault at UBC, according to RCMP

by Charlie Smith on October 20th, 2013 at 7:28 PM
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      The RCMP has revealed that another young woman has been targeted by a sexual assailant at UBC.

      According to a police statement, a 17-year-old female student managed to escape after being approached from a wooded area in the 2500 block of West Mall.

      It occurred just after midnight on October 19, and it's the third attack in three weeks.

      The teenager has a bruised eye after she was punched in the face, according to the RCMP.

      The attacker is described as a Caucasian, 6'2", with a thin build and short cropped hair. He is in his late 20s to early 30s, was wearing a dark hoodie, and may have an American accent.

      "This assault series has become University RCMP Detachment's top priority. We are engaged with many partner law enforcement agencies to attempt to identify and apprehend the person or persons responsible for these attacks," Sgt. Drew Grainger said in the news release. "The RCMP would also like to reinforce the continued strong message for all citizens who walk through the campus at night to exercise every precaution to ensure their own personal safety."

      Comments

      9 Comments

      Jethro Bodine

      Oct 21, 2013 at 1:38am

      This is terrible situation that criminals seem to feel they can safely do these ugly things.

      Back in the 50's when I was just a kid my dad was often away. We lived in rural place not far from a state highway in northern California. My mom used to keep a loaded .38 cal revolver Colt Detective Special with a two inch barrel in the right pocket of her trench coat in the closet by the door. Dad showed her how to use it very well.

      Once time a car came on to our property late at night and a man knocked at our door. Mom stood behind the screen door talking to him wearing the coat with her hand on the trigger of the .38 in her pocket pointing it straight at him. He never knew it but if he had tried something stupid he would gotten something he wouldn't soon forget. Nothing ever happened fortunately, but our family did feel safer. Now days, in here in Canada that would be classified as prohibited gun and mom could have been sent to jail for three years for possession of a prohibited gun.

      IMHO: Perhaps if some of those women today were carrying something like that, those as@#ole guys who go around assaulting women would be definitely finding a new hobby and learning some decent manners.

      Police informant

      Oct 21, 2013 at 9:59am

      I had very strong evidence for a man who was attacking women in East Van. I called into the sex crime unit and left messages 4 times and not once was I called back. So I called the non-emergency number and spoke with an officer and gave him all my information and he said that they probably "lost" my information and he said someone would get back to me. They never found the attacker and I have to believe it starts with the fact they are not following up on tips at all as I am very sure of my damning information on the suspect. Not impressed. I think the rise of attacks in Vancouver and the lack of the police to bring anybody in shows how sincere they are in their interest to actually find these men. Maybe if they hand out more bicycle helmets tickets it will help to keep women safe in Vancouver. Not impressed at all

      Anonnymous

      Oct 21, 2013 at 12:22pm

      Jethro Bodine: If that's allowed, then the attackers will also be carrying a gun....

      Alan Layton

      Oct 21, 2013 at 12:30pm

      Jethro - I assume then that sexual assault, rape and robberies are rare in the US because there are so many personal firearms? Perhaps you can provide us with some data to back up your hypothesis.

      ACMESalesRep

      Oct 21, 2013 at 1:37pm

      Jethro: You do realize that the gun your parents kept around was far more likely to injure or kill one of you than to ever be successfully used for self-defence, right? Having the gun in the house, loaded, stored recklessly, put your safety at greater risk. Yes, your mom would have been charged with having a prohibited weapon under Canadian law. There's good reason for that.

      You're hopelessly naïve if you think allowing people to carry such weapons would make our streets safer. Your “honest opinion”, attractive though it may be in a simple-minded common sense way, is at odds with everything we know about gun control and public safety. It would serve no deterrent purpose, and the greater availability of guns would ensure that they were used more often in more incidents of violence. We don't have to rely on gut feelings for things like this; we can actually measure crime rates with and without gun control. When you do that, the conclusions are clear.

      andy

      Oct 21, 2013 at 2:25pm

      Guns are stupid death machines shaped like dicks that cowards hide behind.

      Zeiss

      Oct 21, 2013 at 5:15pm

      The sad truth is we generally DO live in a rape culture. Besides what the feminists sanctimoniously pronounce, this rape culture is also the result of other non-PC reasons like:

      -- people being taught to over-value themselves and under value others
      --people being generally oversexed in a culture stuffed with crude, boring, disgusting hyper sexuality
      --people acting and dressing like trash

      Fortunately there is a cure for this rape culture—bring back public hanging. That’s right folks—any man convicted of rape, AND any women found to have made a false rape accusation gets the noose. But of course since the justice system is run by weak social workers and liberal judges (eg. suspended sentences for violent crimes, short sentences for second offenses, the death penalty held up as racist Holocaust, victims blamed, criminals sympathized with, prison overseen by “activists” etc) we will be stuck with this rape culture (and theft culture and murder culture) for the time being at least.

      Jethro Bodine

      Oct 21, 2013 at 9:26pm

      ACMESalesRep

      I certainly agree with some of your comments. As far as safe gun storage is concerned, it does seem rather stupid now, looking back to the fifties in the US, and what was totally contrary to present Canadian law regarding proper legal firearms storage and use, but it was long ago in a different time and place. Some people didn't even lock their doors back then. Come to think of it, we didn't either.

      A legally registered gun of course must be stored in a gun safe, unloaded with a trigger lock and the ammo store separately but, in the end the far most dangerous thing at home turned out to be the cigarettes that people were chain smoking. But I still don't think my Mom should really have done prison time. But hey what the heck.