Two news stories involving military personnel have hit the media in the last few days.
CALM DOWN AND TAKE A DEEP BREATH……..
Both of these stories involve members of the Canadian Armed Forces being investigated for historical sexual offences.
This first is this one:
And the other is:
See Bobbie!!! The military police CAN and DO investigate child sexual abuse matters and they don’t try to hide it!
So far as the child pornography investigation in the first matter at CFB Winnipeg, the City of Winnipeg were involved in this. And the reason the city police were involved is because starting in 2021 ALL sexual assault investigations were ordered to be handed over to the civilian authorities.
Had that order not been given I have no doubt that the CFNIS would have done their typical keystone kops style investigation.
The second matter, the “historical” sexual assault investigation against a cadet is for an assault that occurred in 2002. If this sexual assault had occurred prior to 1998 you would never hear about it because the investigation and prosecution couldn’t occur in the modern day.
What I am interested in discovering is what type of cadet was sexually abused.
Was it an officer/naval cadet from the Royal Military College or an officer in training ?
Or was it a sea, army, or air cadet between the ages of 13 and 18?
Who knows?
But the important thing to not lose sight of is that this alleged offence occurred in 2002 and the officers that are alleged to have committed the offence are not protected by the 3-year-time-bar that existed in the pre-1998 National Defence Act.
Beeshive 