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http://www.skicanadamag.com/CNEWSTopNews/pigfarm_apr12-cp.html
http://www.nflcanada.com/CNEWSLaw0209/women_sep18-cp.html
http://www.acmi.canoe.ca/CNEWSLaw0202/24_pig-cp.html
http://vancouver.cbc.ca/regional/servlet/View?filename=bc_farm0202015
http://www.missingpeople.net/remains_at_bc_pig_farm.htm
Since 1983, over fifty women have disappeared from the streets of Vancouver. Their choices of life style included prostitution and drug abuse.
On the streets, there were rumours of parties being held at a pig farm in nearby Port Coquitlam. These were ignored for the most part. No one bothered to investigate the disappearances.
In 2002, Robert Pickton was arrested. The soil at the farm has been sifted for remains for over a year. Some of the bodies have been identified in the media. Recently the police wrapped up their investigation.
Why is there nothing on the news? There's a media ban. To ensure Robert Pickton gets a fair trial the media attending are not allowed to publicize the proceedings.
One reporter was reprimanded, by the judge, for releasing information to the public. The member of the press almost lost their right to attend the trial. At the date of this writing, information is not available as to whether the reporter will be charged. My source is rather vague on that point.
According to rumour and gossip, the women were lured out to the pig farm on promises of drugs and booze. They were tortured, mutilated and their dismembered bodies were buried in the muck of a pig farm.
Some sources have said that there was a female accomplice. Her part in the crime was to recruit women for fun and games. She turned 'states evidence' to avoid prosecution. It's been heard that she is an unreliable witness as well as a flight risk.
For my part, I think about all those women out there. They aren't the first and they won't be the last. A rag tag group of perennial victims. I'm angry at them for being so foolhardy with their lives. Yet, my real rage is for the people who heard those rumours and did nothing.
My other thoughts are about pigs. Women being called pigs. The razor's edge of disdain due to hypocritical morality codes. When is a life disposable? Do people who live on the fringe of society lose their right to protection? These women are daughters, sisters, mothers and yet they only mattered to a few relatives.
How many prostitutes have you seen on the streets? What goes through your mind when you see them beside the roads thumbing in the early hours of the morning? Do you wonder about their mortality?
Robert Pickton deserves a fair trial. Should that include a media ban?
Now the public waits, with deaf ears, to see if justice will be done.
Penelope Allen
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