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<h3 style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:12.0pt;background:white'><span
lang=EN-CA style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#656B6D;
font-weight:normal'>Canadian Charger<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
<h3 style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:12.0pt;background:white'><span
lang=EN-CA style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#656B6D;
font-weight:normal'>February 21, 2017<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
<h1 style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:20.25pt;background:
white;font-stretch: normal' id="article_title"><span lang=EN-CA
style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#AF5721'>Ombudsman
in need of an Ombudsman<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
<p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#868D90'><img width=75 height=75
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<h2 style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:12.0pt;background:white'><span
lang=EN-CA style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#868D90'>Reuel
S. Amdur<o:p></o:p></span></h2>
<p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#868D90'><a
href="http://www.thecanadiancharger.com/page.php?cid=5&id=5"
id="more_author"><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:8.5pt;color:#AF5721'>More by
this author...</span></a></span><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:9.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#868D90'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white'><b><span
lang=EN-CA style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#324960'>Ontario
Ombudsman Paul Dubé issued a hard-hitting report on his organization's
investigation of short-comings of the Ministry of Community and Social Services
in its handling of the situations of the mentally deficient. He found "a
baffling lack of flexibility from officials at the top." Well, the ancient
Romans had a word for it. "De te fabula narrantur." </span></b><b><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#324960'>That's
your story. Let me explain.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:7.5pt;
margin-left:0cm;background:white'><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:9.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#324960'>Cecil was sexually abused as a
child. When asked about school, he replied that he did not do well and
was always in special classes. Recently he applied for benefits from the
Criminal Injuries Compensation Board (CICB) for what had happened to him.
“It ruined my life,” he said. The CICB refused to hear his
case because he was himself guilty of such behavior and, as the CICB observed,
not all abused persons become abusers. The next step was to go to the
Ombudsman.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:7.5pt;
margin-left:0cm;background:white'><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:9.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#324960'>The submission to the Ombudsman
included references to the literature on sexual abuse by victims of abuse,
especially those of low intelligence who as children had also suffered physical
abuse. (Cecil’s father, he said, used to hit him in the face and on
the head.)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:7.5pt;
margin-left:0cm;background:white'><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:9.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#324960'>While the CICB is correct in
saying that abuse victims do not necessarily become abusers, that is only part
of the story. When the case was outlined to Dr. Irvin Waller, a
criminologist of world renown, he commented, “It’s kind of
obvious. Child abuse, physical or sexual, is well established as a risk
factor for persistent offending in teenage and adult years.” <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:7.5pt;
margin-left:0cm;background:white'><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:9.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#324960'>In his<span
class=apple-converted-space> </span>Smarter Crime Control<span
class=apple-converted-space> </span>(Lantham, MD: Rowman &
Littlefield, 2014), he says, “. . . childhood maltreatment approximately<span
class=apple-converted-space> </span>doubles<span
class=apple-converted-space> </span>the likelihood that an individual will
engage in crime; the outcomes are even more exacerbated in cases of sexual
abuse.” (Emphasis in original.) <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:7.5pt;
margin-left:0cm;background:white'><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:9.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#324960'>The World Health
Organization’s 2014<span class=apple-converted-space> </span>Global
Report on Violence Preventionstates as follows: “Maltreatment can cause
changes in the brain that increase the risk of behavioural, physical and mental
health problems in adulthood. Being a victim of child maltreatment can
increase the risk that a person will become a victim and/or perpetrator of
other forms of violence in adolescence and adulthood.” <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:7.5pt;
margin-left:0cm;background:white'><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:9.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#324960'>A similar finding was made by
R. Karl Hanson and Andrew Harris, in their report<span
class=apple-converted-space> </span>Dynamic Predictors of Sexual
Recidivism<span class=apple-converted-space> </span>(1998) for the
Department of the Solicitor General. The factors cited in the report are
childhood environments and low intelligence.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:7.5pt;
margin-left:0cm;background:white'><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:9.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#324960'>Our submission to the Ombudsman
also noted the Freudian understanding of sexual interference during the latency
phase of development. It would be, from that perspective, mental illness,
substance abuse, or anti-social or character disorder of one sort or
another. While, as the CICB argued, not all such childhood victims repeat
the behavior, that is a matter of their innate ego strengths. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:7.5pt;
margin-left:0cm;background:white'><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:9.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#324960'>The Ombudsman’s office
chose not to consider this argumentation, restricting itself to finding that
the CICB acted within its jurisdiction in refusing to hear the case.
Similarly, the Ombudsman refused.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:7.5pt;
margin-left:0cm;background:white'><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:9.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#324960'>According to the
Ombudsman’s Act, the Ombudsman may speak to a decision that “was
unreasonable, unjust, oppressive, or improperly discriminatory, or was in
accordance with a rule of law or as provision of any Act or a practice that is
or may be unreasonable, unjust, oppressive, or improperly
discriminatory.” <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:7.5pt;
margin-left:0cm;background:white'><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:9.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#324960'>The Ombudsman did not even
entertain the concerns presented. It handled the matter in a dismissive
and bureaucratic fashion. Indeed, Mr. Dubé, “De te fabula
narrantur.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:7.5pt;
margin-left:0cm;background:white'><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:9.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#324960'>It appears that they had been
coopted and neutered. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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