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| Rape victim sues prisons |
| By Calgary Sun |
| Published: 08/24/2003 |
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An Alberta woman raped at gunpoint by a sexual sadist is suing the federal prison system and the Canadian National Parole Board for failing to keep her attacker behind bars. The lawsuit also says case workers at three Prairie institutions were negligent by providing the parole board with erroneous information that minimized the danger Alain Ducap could pose to the public. 'In light of Alain Ducap's background, it was clearly foreseeable that Alain Ducap would commit further sexual assaults on innocent women if he was released,' says the statement of claim, filed on behalf of an Edmonton woman in Alberta Court of Queen's Bench. Alliance MP Art Hanger, who had offered to help the victims sue the prison system, said yesterday the family of a Calgary teen has also filed a lawsuit. Details have been sealed to protect her privacy because she is a minor, said Hanger, who would not divulge the name of the family's lawyer. Ducap, 43, who has spent much of his adult life in custody for offences including taking his parole officer hostage and sexually assaulting a pregnant nurse, was declared a dangerous offender in June. That means the former Quebec man can be imprisoned indefinitely. He broke parole just months after being let out of a Winnipeg institution in July 2000 on statutory release. He had served 17 years for attempted murder and sex assault. A year later, he raped two university students after approaching them with a sawed-off shotgun as they crossed an Edmonton schoolyard at 2 a.m., saying 'this would teach them for being out so late.' Days later in Calgary, he attacked a 15-year-old girl in a city park in mid-afternoon. All three victims were tied up and threatened with a gun. Ducap was later arrested at a bus station in Brandon, Man., with what a judge later described as a 'rape kit' -- a backpack carrying a sawed-off shotgun, a knife and baby oil. No statement of defense has been filed. |
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