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To: Greg or e who wrote (13755)	12/15/2009 9:33:24 AM
From: average joe	2 Recommendations Respond to of 37540

Is that how your God teaches you to speak. Your God must be a kook to.

To: Greg or e who wrote (13755)	12/21/2009 6:01:58 AM
From: average joe	1 Recommendation Respond to of 37540

Girl, 15, worked in brothel: Cops 19-year-old tells police she recruited younger girl for a 'kickback' A 15-year-old girl was recruited from a downtown youth shelter to work at a massage parlour that was operating as a brothel, police said Sunday. TORONTO -- A 15-year-old girl was recruited from a downtown Toronto youth shelter to work at a massage parlour that was operating as a brothel, police said yesterday. The information comes as no surprise to vice cops who busted up Toronto Health Spa at Yonge and Gerrard Sts. earlier this month after receiving tips that workers were recruiting vulnerable teens to work as prostitutes. When police raided the so-called massage parlour above Elephant & Castle pub on Dec. 9, no minors were found on the premises, leaving investigators to charge a handful of women with being inmates of a common bawdy house. However, officers found a list of employees and were hopeful that women who weren't working the night of the bust would have information. COMMISSION One such 19-year-old woman came forward Dec. 14 saying she was offered a commission from the spa's owner if she could recruit new workers, Toronto Police Det. Frank Giancola said yesterday. The woman told police she was offered a "kickback" from her boss if she could hire massage workers. The kickback meant 30% of whatever the new girl made in the first week, Giancola said. Generally speaking, the house was getting $50 from each client and then employees got to keep "whatever they worked out in the room for extra services," Giancola said after the bust. A 15-year-old girl was allegedly recruited by the older teen from Evergreen youth shelter, which sits just down the street from the massage parlour. Tips that prompted the investigation into the business indicated teens were also being recruited from nearby Covenant House. The teen allegedly worked at the spa for a week, Giancola said. Calling the alleged recruiting tactics "absolutely disgusting," he added, "How sad that they have to prey on these vulnerable children that are down and out." The owner of the massage parlour is expected to surrender to police today when he will likely be slapped with charges of permitting the premises to be used as a bawdy house and keeping a common bawdy house, Giancola said. However, after the 19-year-old woman gives her official statement later this week, it is likely the owner will be charged with procuring a minor to become a prostitute and living off the avails of a juvenile prostitute, Giancola said. REVIEW In a Jan. 26 review posted on sp411.com, a client identified as greekguy77 described his experience with a "young" worker at the spa. He was led to a "lounge area" where the workers "come in one by one and introduce themselves. "That reminded me of European style brothels," he wrote. "All the girls were very attractive and most of them dressed like strippers, even down to the clear plastic shoes." "She began with a massage on my back and then I turned over," he said of the massage. The man said he paid $80 for a topless session, but complained that the worker bent his "Mr. Happy." "She was young and it seems that you have to get an older girl to really take care of Mr. Happy and get into it and have some fun," he wrote. cnews.canoe.ca

To: Greg or e who wrote (13755)	12/30/2009 11:13:43 AM
From: average joe	Respond to of 37540

All Canadians Cops are Lunatics Suspended Mountie charged in police officer's slaying Man with troubled past tackled outside hospital where Ottawa constable and father was stabbedJoanna Smith OTTAWA–In the aftermath of a chilling, apparently random act of violence, an Ottawa police officer and father of four is dead and a suspended Mountie with a troubled past has been charged with first-degree murder. Kevin Gregson, 43, was tackled by paramedics outside an Ottawa hospital several hours before dawn Tuesday after Const. Ireneusz (Eric) Czapnik, 51, was ambushed and fatally stabbed as he jotted down notes on an unrelated case. It's believed there is no connection between Czapnik and Gregson. "I think someone was hell-bent on something occurring and made sure that it happened," a tired-looking Ottawa Police Chief Vern White told a news conference at police headquarters, where a framed portrait sat on a table of a uniformed Czapnik holding his cap in his white-gloved hands. "It cost us a very good officer and father as well." Gregson was charged late Tuesday night with first-degree murder, robbery and using an imitation firearm to commit a crime. Ottawa police said he would appear in court Wednesday. Gregson was conditionally discharged – without a criminal record – after pleading guilty to pulling a knife on a Mormon church official while off duty from his job as an RCMP officer in Regina in 2006. "You don't know how many ways I have been taught to kill a man," Gregson told the official, according to a report of the court hearing. At the time, Gregson had been with the RCMP for nine years. Cysts were discovered in his brain several months after the incident took place and he has since had brain surgery. "The medical condition played a large role – the actual medical condition itself, but also the delay in getting it properly diagnosed and the delays in our systems in getting in for MRIs and the follow-ups," his then-lawyer David Bishop told the CBC following the sentencing in April 2007. Gregson's status with the RCMP was then under review as a result of the incident. The RCMP did not return calls from the Star Tuesday. Public Safety Minister Peter Van Loan said the RCMP has offered to assist Ottawa police in the investigation. "We were ... saddened and disappointed to learn the individual arrested in Constable Czapnik's murder is a suspended member of the RCMP," Van Loan said in a statement. Gregson's lawyer, Israel Gencher, said he spoke to his client by phone briefly early Tuesday morning. The alleged ambush took place around 4:30 a.m. Tuesday as Czapnik sat in his cruiser outside the Civic Campus of the Ottawa Hospital writing up notes on an unrelated case. Paramedics on the scene, where two ambulances sat kitty corner from the cruiser in a small parking area, were unable to save the officer, although they and several members of the public managed to apprehend the suspect. White praised the actions of the four paramedics. "Without their assistance I'm not sure what would have happened next," White said. "They were essential and I will say they were heroic in the way they handled the situation." Czapnik nonetheless died about an hour later. Czapnik joined the force in April 2007 after working at an office interior store in Ottawa for 16 years. White said Czapnik was probably the oldest and one of the most unlikely recruits the police service has ever had, but was probably drawn to the job because of his family history. "He was an engaged and dedicated police officer who truly enjoyed working in the community," his family, which includes a wife, three sons and a daughter, said in a statement read by White. "He was a proud officer following in the footsteps of his father who was also an officer for over 30 years in Poland." The Star reached his wife by telephone at the family home but she did not want to talk. Czapnik was born in Warsaw in 1958, did a mandatory year of service with the Polish army at 19, and then worked as an aircraft mechanic for seven years. He immigrated to Canada in 1990 after having lived in Greece for two years. White said Czapnik's colleagues remember him as a friendly man with a strong accent who managed to achieve the dream of many newcomers to Canada. "That is probably the immigrant story everyone is looking for and that is what makes this country so great," White said of Czapnik, who was an active volunteer with the Polish Community Association and played soccer in a local league. White said the Ottawa police force was shaken by the news. The last time one of its officers was killed in the line of duty was in October 1983 when 38-year-old Const. David Utman was shot to death during an altercation at a shopping centre. "It's always challenging. It's unexpected. It's tragic. There's no rationale. There's no reason for this, so yeah, it's difficult," said White. "I've received hundreds of emails today, not only from partners in what we do, but also from the community, and it shows the great relationship we have and it is challenging when that relationship is broken." Police cruisers were still guarding the bloody scene cordoned off with yellow tape Tuesday afternoon. The pages of an abandoned police notepad fluttered in the biting wind on the ground beside what appeared to be the cruiser Czapnik had been sitting in outside an emergency room entrance of the Civic Campus of the Ottawa Hospital. There was a puddle of blood on the ice, as well as a handgun, two knives and a flashlight. An empty silver-grey four-door Honda Civic guarded by another cruiser idled its engine for hours. White said there was no known connection between the victim and the man in police custody. In Regina, the Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints church referred calls to the media office at church headquarters in Salt Lake City, Utah. Kim Farah, a spokeswoman for the church, said she could not comment on whether Gregson remains a member of the church. "Our hearts and prayers go out to Const. Eric Czapnik's family as they deal with this senseless tragedy," said Farah. The Sault Star reported that Gregson is a graduate of the Sault College native addictions counselling program and worked as an orderly at Riverview Mental Health Centre in Sault Ste. Marie after his 2007 conviction. Mario Paluzzi, spokesman for Sault Area Hospital, said Tuesday he could not speak about what connections Gregson had to the centre. "Our practice is we do not speak or confirm current or past employees," said Paluzzi. White said members of the public can send messages of condolence by email to info@ottawapolice.ca. With files from Petti Fong thestar.com