Charges against Calgary-area teachers should encourage more victims

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Charges against Calgary-area teachers  should encourage more victims to come  forward, police say
Recent allegations against  Calgary-area teachers have  prompted police  to encourage other victims to come forward. Alesia Fieldberg  reports. Police are expecting more victims to come forward after  sexual assault charges were  filed in two separate cases involving Calgary-area  teachers.
One of the cases involves allegations of  historical sex crimes, and the other  happened just this  week.
"It looks like  there are going to be  a few more  victims," said Staff Sgt. Tom Hanson  of the Calgary  Police Service Sexual Assault Investigation Unit.
Timothy Bailey, a teacher at Springbank Community High  School, faces charges  of making sexually explicit material available to a  child after a student came forward on  January 21.
The 49-year-old served in the Canadian Army  Reserve between 1992 and 2016 and  completed two deployments  to Bosnia.
Fred Henry Archer, a former teacher at John Ware Junior High  School, now  faces charges of  sexually assaulting a child under the age of 16  a decade ago. Another class action lawsuit also accuses  Archer, 80, and another former teacher, Michael Gregory, of sexually and physically abusing children at John Ware School between 1988 and  2004.
"The allegations are that over  a period of 15 years, unfortunately, a  large number of students were sexually abused by these two  boys," said David Corrigan,  of HMC  lawyers.
Archer served time  in prison for child  sexual assault after a former Springbank  High School student came forward in 2008, years after the  abuse.
Gregory committed suicide after  being charged.
Experts say child sex offenders are  good at building  trust. "Ninety-two per cent of child abuse  cases involve  someone in a position of authority and someone the child  knows," said Karen Orser,  executive director of the  child and  youth advocacy centre LUNA.
"It's very  difficult when things like this happen.  It's very unfortunate that people in positions of  authority manipulate children for their own  ends. Just know  that there are people  who can  help, including  us," said Corporal Gina Slaney  of the Alberta  RCMP. When victims contact police,  they often  encourage others to seek  justice.
"They realize they  were not alone in their victimization and  that there  were very serious predators  out there," Hanson  said.
Child advocates say children and parents should be aware of  the warning signs and discuss them  together.
"People in positions of  trust often initiate or  create opportunities  for children to be alone  or communicate with  them," Orser  said.
She added that other red flags  include someone in a position of power giving someone  special attention or  refusing to give someone their attention and  ignoring or belittling someone  who is trying to  solve their problems. Children's rights advocates say  they need to know  it's not their fault and  that they  won't get into trouble  if they speak up.
Adults living with abuse in their  lives should know  that police always investigate  allegations, no matter how long  it's been.

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