It's been just chewing me up for 40 years. So you just kept this a secret for all these decades? She took me to a psychologist.Īnd did you tell this anything? She noticed something was - I had changed. "I don't know, mum, you do all the laundry."ĭid your parents notice any change in your behaviour, in how you reacted? She would ask, "Where's your underwear going?" I had to hide by underwear from my mother, and I threw them in the alley behind the house. That I deserved what I got.Īnd I relied on what the correction officer said: "Nobody's going to believe you." I thought, "OK, well nobody's going to believe me."īut you were physically hurt. I just, like I say, I was just so ashamed. How did you manage to keep it a secret from your parents? When he said, "Nobody's going to believe you," he meant about being raped by these inmates. Then he came back and he took me out of the cell and he says, "Nobody's going to believe you."Īnd then we walked back to the front gates and the probation officer picked me up.Ī guard outside Oakalla Prison. I find out now that it is called "the hole." And he took me down the stairs and put me in a cell and locked me up and I don't know how long I was in there. I don't want to swear, but he said, "That's what happens to little F-ers like you."Īnd then he took me across the parkling lot. Nobody protecting you.Īnd where else did they take you besides that cell?Īfter they had finished raping me, he took me out of the cell. He was standing at the bars, holding onto the bars, laughing.Īnd there was no other adult supervision? Nobody came with you? They put you in there, gave you to the guard, and that was it. Well, the probation officer dropped me off at the front gate and then I was taken in by a guard and we went up a couple of tiers in the jail and there was five inmates standing there.Īnd he pushed me in the cell, and the five guys came in the cell and proceeded to rape me. Oakalla Prison, also known as the Lower Mainland Regional Correctional Centre, overlooked Deer Park in Burnaby. But in practice, it was a nightmare, wasn't it? What he explained to my parents is they have a scared straight prison program, and what it's supposed to do is scare the kids straight so they stop getting in trouble. How did he explain this idea of having a "scared straight" prison visit? So you had a probationary sentence, the judge gave you. And I'm in my own little prison myself - and I will be for life. Guys that have been wrongfully imprisoned get more. It's a little bit of help, but it wasn't enough in my opinion. What did it mean for you this week to get this financial award from the British Columbia Supreme Court? spoke to As It Happens host Carol Off about what happened to him and why he's finally decided to speak up after years of silence.
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