The criminal justice system calls for stalking crimes "women" Advocates have described it as a "danger signal" that indicates the possibility of more serious and violent behavior.
"We need to understand that stalking is a danger signal for murder. This is a well-documented fact," said Julie Lalond. .. A survivor of stalking and a nationally recognized expert in violence against women.
Stalking, also known as criminal harassment, is often a symptom of dangerous attachment that leads to assault, sexual assault, and murder. "We need to be aware that this is rarely a crime. In quarantine."
La Rondo received a revelation first reported by CBC's Shaa Mini Yoga Letnam on Thursday. Joshua Graves said he had been charged with criminal harassment, assault and sexual assault, and was released from detention just three days before he stabbed Otawa's mother and her two. Her daughter.
Two of these women, Anne-Marie Lady (50 years old) and her daughter Jasmine Lady (15 years old), have died. Catherine Lady, 19, is hospitalized with a knife and gunshot wound.
Her knife-wielding grave was shot dead by police on Anoka Street, which is attacking Catherine Lady, on Monday night.
According to information released by the Ontario police guard dog, a special investigation unit, police ordered Graves to drop his weapons, and when he failed to act, three police officers told him. I fired.
The tomb was declared dead on the scene.
Catherine Lady was taken to the hospital with a stab wound and a gunshot wound occurred in a confrontation with Graves police. Officers later discovered the bodies of Anne-Marie Lady, a Trade Commissioner of Global Affairs Canada, and her daughter Jasmine, a student at the Conceal de Ecole Catholic du Center Est.
The court documents obtained by this newspaper program Graves were released on Friday, June 24, by former Ottawa Citizen reporter Justice of the Peace Andrew Seymour.
The tomb was charged with harassment, assault, and sexual assault for crimes that occurred from early March to mid-June.
He will be released with the help of his mother Emily's pledged $ 2,000 guarantor to live in his home and stay out of the area surrounded by Montreal Road and Coventry Road. Various conditions were imposed for. , St. Laurent Boulevard and Banier Parkway, near where his alleged victims lived and worked.
He was also ordered not to contact four people (two of whom were women) whose identities were protected by a publication ban, either directly, indirectly or online. Members of the Graves family were not among the members identified in court documents.
Seymour also ordered Graves not to carry the usual weapons defined by the Penal Code and other weapons designed to cause death or injury. ..
He was next scheduled to appear in court on July 13.
La Rondo said the news of the double murder was particularly painful given what happened on the same day as the three-week inquest to Ottawa. Carol Kaleton, Anastasia Kujik, and Natalie Warmerdam's Cleavage Murder made the recommendation. Inquests heard that in September 2015, Basil Boltsky, responsible for the murder rampage, was stalking the carton after being convicted of domestic violent crimes against both Kujik and Warmerdam.
"It's horrifying, I just testified at the Triple Femicide Inquest, and it's especially hard for me to hear," Lalond said. "It's scary that this continues."
In the appearance of an inquest, Lalond expanded the definition of criminal harassment and introduced services tailored to stalking. I asked.
"It's good to have a lot of shelters and sexual assault centers, but if you're stalking, you're not going to call the police and expect what happened to them to cross. There is literally no place for people to turn around. The threshold that it's a legal issue, "she said.
La Rondo has experienced stalking in a disturbing decade of episodes in her memoir "Resilience is Useless: Julie S. La Rondo's Life, Death and Life."
She said it was "incredibly frustrating" for two more women to die in the hands of a stalker. "The whole story is incredibly horrifying. Not only was he previously charged, but he was such a young man. He was 21 and caused many genocide.
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