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Klassen vindicated: Monetary
compensation still to be determined
Shannon Boklaschuk, The
StarPhoenix , December 31, 2003
Richard Klassen and 11 other
plaintiffs wrongly accused of ritual abuse against three foster
children in the early 1990s were victims of malicious prosecution,
a Court of Queen's Bench judge has ruled.
"I've always said we were
innocent, and I knew that coming into this," Klassen told
reporters during a press conference on Tuesday, where his relatives
and supporters cried and hugged nearby.
"I'm happy for this judgment,
and my faith in the justice system in Saskatchewan has been renewed,"
he said.
In 1991, Klassen, his wife
and others were accused of sexually abusing three Saskatoon-area
foster children.
The bizarre allegations included
detailed accounts of satanic ritual abuse, which included animal
and human sacrifice, as well as claims the children had been
forced to eat feces and drink urine.
Police arrested 16 people in
1991, but charges against 12 individuals were stayed in 1993,
while Richard's father Peter Klassen pleaded guilty to four counts
of sexual assault. The birth parents and a family friend were
found guilty, but the decision was later overturned by the Supreme
Court.
The children later recanted
almost all of what they had alleged, and the oldest foster child,
Michael Ross, was found to be abusing his younger twin sisters,
Michelle and Kathy.
Klassen and the others then
sued, alleging malicious prosecution. Those suing included Richard
Klassen and his wife Kari, Klassen's sister Pamela Shetterly,
the estate of his deceased mother Marie Klassen, his brother
John Klassen and John's wife Myrna, his brother Peter Dale Klassen
and his wife Anita, who were the Ross children's foster parents,
and four plaintiffs that cannot be named.
They claimed justice officials
knew they had no case, but proceeded anyway.
In their defence, lawyers for
police, prosecutors and a therapist stated the officials were
simply doing their jobs.
On Tuesday, Justice George
Baynton of the Court of Queen's Bench released his decision on
the malicious prosecution lawsuit.
Baynton found that child therapist
Carol Bunko-Ruys, Crown prosecutor Matthew Miazga and Saskatoon
police officer Supt. Brian Dueck -- who was a corporal when the
case broke -- had maliciously prosecuted the plaintiffs.
Meanwhile, the malicious prosecution
suit against Sonja Hansen, the second Crown prosecutor, was dismissed,
as was Hansen and Miazga's counterclaim against Klassen for defamation.
"The case was labelled
by the media as the 'Scandal of the Century'," Baynton said
in his 189-page decision.
"The real scandal, however,
is the travesty of justice that was visited upon 12 of those
individuals, the plaintiffs in this civil action, by branding
them as pedophiles even though each of them was innocent of the
horrendous allegations and criminal offences charged against
them."
While the plaintiffs sought
in excess of $10-million in damages, monetary compensation wasn't
addressed in Baynton's ruling.
Lawyer Robert Borden, who represented
all of the plaintiffs except Richard Klassen, said every plaintiff
will have to establish damages relative to his or her own situation.
Borden said he and Klassen
hope to meet with representatives from the Department of Justice
and the Saskatoon Police Service and "settle this this week.
"It's just a matter now
of allowing these people their good compensation and allowing
them to get on with their lives. Let's not drag this out any
further," he said.
For Richard Klassen, who has
struggled for years to clear his name, Tuesday's judgment came
as a shock, since he had "honestly" expected to lose
the civil trial.
Because he represented himself,
he was afraid "judges would be reluctant to give a self-represented
litigant their day in court."
However, "this judge carefully
listened to me, and allowed me to lay forward the evidence, like
someone who had legal experience," Klassen told the media.
Although Klassen now feels
"vindicated," he plans to continue to lobby for change
in the justice system. For example, he believes malicious prosecution
should be included in the Criminal Code, he said.
Klassen also plans to fight
for a "fair settlement" and said that "apologies
should come immediately.
"The government owes a
lot of apologies to this province, and they need to start bringing
these apologies forward," he said.
"They fought us, they
took us to court and here we are. They owe me an apology."
Don Morgan, the Saskatchewan
Party's justice critic, agrees.
When the children recanted
their stories, the government's focus should have shifted, he
said.
"They should have said,
'We were wrong. We're sorry. We made a mistake.' "
Lawyer Don McKillop, who represented
Miazga, Bunko-Ruys and Hansen, said it is premature to make a
decision about an apology.
As for an appeal, McKillop
said "it's very clearly something we will be looking at.
"But no more so than you
always do when get a trial decision that goes against you,"
he added.
Saskatchewan's justice minister,
Frank Quennell, was not available for comment Tuesday.
The Saskatoon police service,
meanwhile, did not issue a formal statement.
In an interview, spokesperson
acting Insp. Al Stickney said police want to take the time to
carefully read through Baynton's lengthy ruling.
"This is a large document
of 189 pages that neither I nor anybody else at the police service
has had time to go over and assess what implications, if any,
it has for the police service," he said.
But after years of hardship,
several emotional members of the Klassen family were ready to
express their feelings and talk about the pain they endured.
According to Richard Klassen,
some individuals have suffered mental breakdowns, while two of
the plaintiffs have died, "certainly from a lot of stress."
For one plaintiff, whose two
children and now-deceased husband were also accused, "the
pain will never go away.
"I can't give my heart
to anybody anymore, because I hurt so deeply. I don't even trust
neighbours," said the woman, who could not be identified.
"I had promised my husband
on his death bed that I would do anything I could to clear our
names, and for our children's sake, to let them have a proper
life and go on.
"We were accused of doing
things were never did, with kids I never saw in my life. And
our lives have been taken away because of it," said the
woman, her voice breaking with emotion.
In separate interviews, Richard
Klassen's wife and sister also talked about how proud they were
of the job he has done.
"I'm so filled with pride
for my brother. He's a fantastic person. He's worked hard,"
said Shetterly, who was also a plaintiff.
Klassen's wife, Kari, said
she had confidence her husband "could present the case that
he did.
"I am so extremely proud
of him. If it hadn't been for him, there wouldn't be a lawsuit,"
she said.
"I was telling him 'You're
going to win this.' And he did. He won," added Klassen's
smiling daughter, 14-year-old Kayla.
For some, such as Shetterly,
Baynton's judgment presents an opportunity to begin healing.
On Tuesday morning, her thoughts
turned to her family.
"I thought of my brothers
and my sisters and all that we've lost, and I thought of all
the things that have happened, and the smoke has cleared,"
the Outlook resident said.
"We are still standing.
And that's tremendous."
© Copyright 2003 The StarPhoenix (Saskatoon)
Klassen keeps addiction,
cancer diagnosis secret
Jason Warick, Senior Reporter,
Saskatchewan News Network, Dec. 31, 2003
Most observers were impressed
by the way Richard Klassen eloquently argued his own malicious
prosecution case.
With a Grade 7 education and
zero legal training, the former house painter was the only one
of the dozen plaintiffs representing himself. Klassen had spent
most of the past 10 years researching his case and learning the
rigid rules of court.
His performance was impressive,
successfully fighting off several motions by justice officials
to have the case thrown out.
On Tuesday, Klassen and the
other plaintiffs won their civil suit against three of the four
defendants, in a decision by Justice George Baynton. Baynton's
strongly worded decision called what the plaintiffs lived through
-- the accusations of sexual and ritual abuse, the year and a
half of living under a cloud of pending charges -- a travesty
of justice.
But behind the scenes of this
high-profile trial, and behind Klassen's discipline and tenacity,
lay a pair of secrets.
In the fall of 2002, Klassen
made a very private revelation to Saskatchewan News Network on
the condition SNN not reveal his condition until after the decision
in his civil trial.
At that time, Klassen had been
working more than 12 hours a day from his rented Saskatoon office,
much of it with assistant Angela Geworski and lawyers Robert
Borden and Ed Holgate, who represented the other plaintiffs.
Despite his commitment to his
case, he told the reporter, "I just want this to be over.
I want to get out of here and never come back. I'll take any
offer."
When asked why he'd give up
so easily after so many years of hard work, Klassen's eyes filled
with tears.
"Because I don't know
how long I have left. I've got cancer," he said.
The prostate cancer was serious,
and his doctor told him he needed surgery and other interventions
right away. Klassen said he didn't know what to do.
At the next meeting with SNN
several weeks later, Klassen said he'd make up his mind. The
lawsuit meant too much to him and to the other plaintiffs --
many of them his own family members -- wrongly accused of child
sexual abuse.
Saskatchewan people had to
see how the justice system failed them, and Klassen wanted to
make sure it didn't happen again. He would keep his cancer a
secret to all but a few people, and fight the case all the way,
he explained.
But that meant delaying his
surgery indefinitely.
"Surgery would have made
me miss weeks and weeks (of preparation on the case). And I wasn't
going to walk into court with a catheter or something. The trial
was my first concern," he said.
During the trial, Klassen left
court frequently to go to the bathroom, likely because of an
infection related to the cancer. He was often sick, telling reporters
outside court it was likely just the flu.
Walking up to the second floor
courtroom was also painful at times, he said.
With the trial over, Klassen
has finally gone back to his doctor for another blood test to
tell him how serious the cancer has become.
Some men can live with prostate
cancer unaffected for many years, but others do not.
"If it's still operable
and my chances are good, I'll get the surgery. I'm hoping for
the best," he said in a recent interview.
"I'm so scared. I don't
know what's happening to me."
It was during this recent interview
Klassen revealed his second secret.
Last summer, with the trial
looming and his cancer diagnosis weighing heavily, Klassen couldn't
sleep at night.
"I started going downhill.
I'd go three, four days without sleeping."
His doctor prescribed one-half
a sleeping pill when needed, but Klassen was soon addicted, popping
four every night.
"I'm still doing it. I
can't sleep unless I do it."
Klassen was also prescribed
an anti-depressant -- one pill per day. But soon he was taking
up to 30 at a time.
To conceal his addiction, he
would go to several different doctors for his pills, he said.
In the weeks before the trial,
he was hospitalized twice for overdosing. His stomach was pumped
and he was kept overnight for observation.
Once the trial began, Klassen
appeared composed and calm in court. He was, but only because
of the medication.
"I was in constant fear
my case would fall apart. I thought I'd just choke and not be
able to speak.
"Without those pills,
I'd have been crying all the time."
Klassen is still addicted.
He's tried to quit several times since the trial ended, but knows
he needs professional help.
"I've got to get off of
this stuff. I can't do it on my own."
Klassen is faintly hopeful
the anxiety and sleeplessness will subside now that the case
is over. But there's also the cancer, which adds another question
mark to his future.
"This has been the most
terrifying time of my entire life."
Whatever happens with his health,
Klassen is determined to continue to fight what he sees as flaws
in the justice system.
He's already planning a move
to Winnipeg.
He's written a letter to the
city's police chief, telling him he's coming to lobby on behalf
of another man he believes was wrongly accused.
"That'll be my next fight.
I'm ready for another one."
© Copyright 2003 The StarPhoenix (Saskatoon)
Saskatoon judge rules
12 accused were real victims in foster kids abuse case
TIM COOK (This story was
in numerous newspapers across Canada and also in news briefs
in the U.S. and England) Dec. 31, 2003
SASKATOON (CP) - Twelve people
who were falsely accused of ritualistically abusing three foster
children more than a decade ago were the victims of a malicious
prosecution, a judge has ruled.
Richard Klassen and 11 others
were charged in 1991 with abusing the children in bizarre and
demonic ways - forcing them to eat eyeballs, drink blood, participate
in orgies and watch newborn babies get skinned and buried. Saskatoon
police called it the "scandal of the century" at the
time, but most of the cases never made it to trial. Charges were
stayed and the children recanted their accusations.
Klassen and the others sued
the investigators and, on Tuesday, Queen's Bench Justice George
Baynton ruled in the plaintiffs' favour.
"The case was labelled
by the media as the 'scandal of the century'," Baynton said
in his ruling.
"The real scandal however,
is the travesty of justice that was visited upon 12 of those
individuals, the plaintiffs in the civil action, by branding
them as pedophiles, even though each of them was innocent of
the horrendous allegations and criminal offences charged against
them."
The ruling applies to three
of the four defendants in the civil lawsuit: The lead investigator
- Saskatoon police Supt. Brian Dueck, who was a corporal when
the case broke; a therapist, Carol Bunko-Ruys; and Crown prosecutor
Matthew Miazga.
The case against another defendant,
Crown prosecutor Sonja Hansen, was dropped.
Baynton cited several reasons
why the prosecution was malicious, including a lack of reasonable
cause.
"In my view, proceeding
with charges in such an extraordinary case in the absence of
reasonable and probable cause constitutes a strong presumption
of malice," Baynton wrote.
He said evidence suggested
Dueck was "blinded by his zeal to turn the wild allegations
of the Ross children into a high-profile case that would portray
him as a diligent and unrelenting protector of abused children.
"It is almost beyond belief
that none of those involved in the prosecution of the plaintiffs
stood back, so to speak, and asked themselves if any of this
made any sense and whether it could reasonably be true,"
Baynton wrote.
The plaintiffs had sought $10
million in damages, but Baynton did not rule on compensation.
Robert Borden, the lawyer for 11 of the plaintiffs said he hopes
an amount can be worked out between the two sides within a week.
Klassen, who represented himself
at trial, was relieved by the judgment.
"I have a whole new faith
in the Saskatchewan justice system," Klassen said, adding
he will lobby to have malicious prosecutions included in the
Criminal Code.
One of the Klassen-family plaintiffs,
Pamela Shetterly, said it was her mother's last wish that the
family name be cleared.
"Her dying breath, her
last sentence to her children, was clear our names and I felt
that when we got this verdict . . . there was just a shout from
up above," Shetterly said through tears. "I believe
that she hears this."
Another plaintiff, who can't
be named because her two children were charged as young offenders,
remembered her husband, who was also one of the accused.
"I promised my husband
on his deathbed that I would do anything I could to clear our
names and, for our children's sake, to let them have a proper
life," the weeping woman said. "My whole life has been
turned upside down."
In a written statement Dueck's
lawyer, David Gerrand, said the ruling will be reviewed before
a decision is made on an appeal.
"Supt. Dueck is disappointed
with the result of the civil action," the statement read
in part.
Saskatoon city police declined
comment pending a review of the decision.
Crown lawyer Don McKillop,
who represented the three other defendants, said it was too early
to say whether the judgment will be appealed.
For the plaintiffs, the ordeal
began in 1987 when a boy named Michael Ross and his younger twin
sisters Michelle and Kathy, all under 10, were put into the foster
home of Klassen's brother and sister-in-law.
Michael was abusive to his
two sisters, both physically and sexually, and was eventually
removed from the home.
In an effort to be reunited
with his sisters at the new foster home, he told police about
the horrific abuse they had suffered at the Klassen home, court
heard.
As investigators worked the
case, the Ross kids were reunited and the sisters began to back
up their brother's claims.
Eventually the allegations
included almost every adult the children had known and most of
Klassen's extended family.
In 1991, police arrested 16
people, including the disabled birth parents of the three kids
and many members of the extended foster family.
But in 1993, charges against
12 of the 16 were stayed by the Crown on the grounds it wished
to avoid further trauma to the children.
Klassen's father, Peter, pleaded
guilty to one count of sex assault against each of the children
as part of a plea bargain.
In his decision, Baynton noted
Peter had a previous conviction for sexually assaulting two children
in 1989.
The birth parents and a family
friend were found guilty, but the decision was overturned by
the Supreme Court.
The children have since publicly
revealed they made up the stories. They are now in their mid-20s
and have not sought a publication ban on their names.
During the civil trial, court
heard that Crown lawyers had doubts about the children's credibility
and that Dueck approached more than one Crown to take the case.
Terry Hinz, a former prosecutor,
told court he asked Dueck to track down the babies who were killed.
Dueck told him the killers were "brood mares" - women
who breed children specifically to sacrifice them.
"It made me feel I was
transported back into the 17th century reading about the Salem
witchcraft complaints," Hinz testified.
In rebuttal, the defendants
argued that mistakes or negligence on their parts don't amount
to malicious prosecution.
Dueck testified he never doubted
the children had been abused, he just didn't believe some of
the more bizarre allegations.
He also testified that he was
following a widely recognized protocol to believe children are
being honest when they disclose information about sexual abuse.
The case had striking similarities
to one that was unfolding around the same time in Martensville,
just north of Saskatoon.
In that case, 180 charges were
laid against nine people, including several Saskatoon police
officers. Similar allegations of ritual abuse were made by children
but were later found to be false.
- © The Canadian Press,
2003
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Front page of the Globe
and Mail
- Abuse saga ends: 'We
won, we won, we won'
- Sask. judge finds
Crown and others liable after 12 wrongly charged with sex crimes
By GRAEME SMITH, Globe
and Mail, Dec. 31, 2003
A Crown attorney, a police
officer and a social worker are liable for a "travesty of
justice" in which a dozen innocent people were wrongly accused
of sex crimes, a judge has ruled.
The groundbreaking decision
by a Saskatchewan court yesterday found that the three officials
extracted wild stories from troubled children about orgies, eating
eyeballs and barbecuing babies, and pursued a prosecution while
ignoring or concealing evidence that the accusations weren't
true.
Richard Klassen, one of the
falsely accused, paced around his motel room in Saskatoon yesterday
morning as he waited for the decision. He had been sleepless
all night, despite taking five strong sleeping pills.
When he read the judgment from
Mr. Justice George Baynton of the Court of Queen's Bench, he
was nearly incoherent with relief.
"We won, we won, we won,"
a tearful Mr. Klassen repeated into his cellphone, just minutes
afterward.
Judge Baynton will decide damages
and costs later. Mr. Klassen and the other plaintiffs are seeking
more than $10-million for malicious prosecution.
The first effect of the decision,
Mr. Klassen said, is that he might finally get some sleep. "My
wife and I are going to bed," Mr. Klassen said in another
interview yesterday. "You're talking to a man who's been
up for 36 hours." His family already feels less burdened
by the stigma they have carried for years, he said. "To
be called a child molester in 1991 was devastating, and it was
something that never went away. It's something that lasted for
13 years, and today is the first time we have ever officially
been vindicated."
The defendants' reaction to
the decision was muted. Saskatoon police superintendent Brian
Dueck, the lead investigator in the case, was singled out in
the judgment for hiding relevant facts and conducting "no
real or meaningful investigation."
He released a terse statement
through his lawyer.
"Superintendent Dueck
is disappointed with the result of the civil action," the
statement said.
"The decision will be
carefully analyzed to assess its implications and to determine
if there will be an appeal." Don McKillop, a lawyer for
the other defendants, said that they are all travelling for the
holidays and he gave them only a general description of the ruling.
"I don't think anybody
would expect anything other than disappointment from them,"
he said.
Along with Supt. Dueck, the
others found liable were therapist Carol Bunko-Ruys and prosecutor
Matthew Miazga. A claim against Crown prosecutor Sonja Hansen
was dismissed.
The lawsuit is believed to
be the first successful one in Saskatchewan against a Crown attorney
for malicious prosecution, and the judge noted that the case
was part of a troubled period in the province's justice system.
In the mid-1980s, many justice
officials realized that they were not taking children seriously
enough when they made allegations of abuse, the judge wrote.
In response, the police, prosecutors and social workers in Saskatoon
developed a protocol for handling such complaints.
"As with many well-intentioned
responses to social problems in our society, the protocol may
have gone too far in its laudable objective by creating another
potential social problem of the same magnitude," Judge Baynton
wrote.
The defendants wrongly interpreted
the protocol to mean that the children's allegations were enough
to launch a prosecution without supporting evidence or an assessment
of whether the accusations were reasonably credible, the judge
wrote.
© 2003 Bell Globemedia
Publishing Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Pre judgment publicity
Judge ready to rule on
Saskatchewan's `scandal of the century'
SASKATOON (AP) _ As he prepares
for a ruling in a lawsuit that sprang from allegations of ritualistic
child abuse, Richard Klassen says the tension is almost too much
to bear.
Klassen and 11 others were
accused more than 12 years ago of abusing three young foster
children in bizarre ways _ forcing them to eat eyeballs, drink
blood, participate in orgies and watch newborn babies get skinned
and buried.
At the time, Saskatoon police
called it the "scandal of the century," but most of
the cases never made it to court. Charges were stayed and accusations
were revoked.
On Tuesday, a judge will hand
down his ruling in a lawsuit Klassen and the others filed against
the lead investigator, Saskatoon police Supt. Brian Dueck, who
was a corporal when the case broke, a therapist, Carol Bunko-Ruys,
and two Crown prosecutors, Matthew Miazga and Sonja Hansen.
"I've never been so scared
in my life," Klassen said Monday. "We put all our eggs
in one basket and it is sitting there for the judge.
"If I lose, I don't know
what I am going to do and if I win, I don't know what I am going
to do. I am twisted."
Justice George Baynton must
decide whether the defendants were malicious in their pursuit
of a case against the plaintiffs.
Lawyers for the defendants,
David Gerrand and Don McKillop, declined to comment until after
the decision is released.
Copyright © 2003, The
Associated Press | Monday's Canadian Briefs, Dec. 29, 2003 Newsday
website
Judge ready to rule on
Saskatchewan's 'scandal of the century'
By TIM COOK, December 29,
2003
SASKATOON (CP) - As he prepares
for a ruling in a lawsuit that sprang from allegations of ritualistic
child abuse, Richard Klassen says the tension is almost too much
to bear.
Klassen and 11 others were
accused more than 12 years ago of abusing three young foster
children in bizarre ways - forcing them to eat eyeballs, drink
blood, participate in orgies and watch newborn babies get skinned
and buried.
At the time, Saskatoon police
called it the "scandal of the century," but most of
the cases never made it to court. Charges were stayed and accusations
were revoked.
On Tuesday, a judge will hand
down his ruling in a lawsuit Klassen and the others filed against
the lead investigator - Saskatoon police Supt. Brian Dueck, who
was a corporal when the case broke - a therapist, Carol Bunko-Ruys,
and two Crown prosecutors, Matthew Miazga and Sonja Hansen.
"I've never been so scared
in my life," Klassen said Monday. "We put all our eggs
in one basket and it is sitting there for the judge.
"If I lose, I don't know
what I am going to do and if I win, I don't know what I am going
to do. I am twisted."
Justice George Baynton must
decide whether the defendants were malicious in their pursuit
of a case against the plaintiffs.
Lawyers for the defendants,
David Gerrand and Don McKillop, declined to comment until after
the decision is released.
For Klassen and the rest of
the plaintiffs, their ordeal began in 1987 when a boy named Michael
Ross and his younger twin sisters Michelle and Kathy, all under
10, were put into the foster home of Klassen's brother and sister-in-law.
Michael was abusive to his
two sisters, both physically and sexually, and he was eventually
removed from the home.
In an effort to be reunited
with his sisters at the new foster home, he told police about
horrific abuse they had suffered at the hands of the Klassens,
court heard.
As investigators worked the
case, the Ross kids were reunited and the sisters began to back
up their brother's claims.
Eventually the allegations
included almost every adult the children had known and most of
Klassen's extended family.
Even a wheelchair-bound elderly
woman was accused of chasing down a child and forcing him to
perform sexual acts.
In 1991, police arrested 16
people, including the disabled birth parents of the three kids
and many members of the extended foster family.
But in 1993, charges against
12 of the 16 were stayed by the Crown on the grounds it wanted
to avoid further trauma to the children.
Klassen's father, Peter, pleaded
guilty to one count of sex assault as part of a plea bargain
to spare the others.
The birth parents and a family
friend were found guilty, but the decision was overturned by
the Supreme Court.
The children have since publicly
revealed they made up the stories. They are now in their mid-20s,
have appeared many times in public to talk about the case and
have not sought a publication ban on their names.
During the civil trial, which
began in September and ran to mid-November, court heard that
Crown lawyers had doubts about the children's credibility and
that Dueck approached more than one Crown lawyer to take the
case.
The plaintiffs argued that
the children's stories were "riddled with inconsistencies,"
and evidence that Michael was abusing his sisters was ignored
to focus guilt on the adults.
In rebuttal, the defendants
argued that mistakes or negligence on their parts don't amount
to malicious prosecution.
There were also widely recognized
protocols in place that instructed police to always believe children
are being honest when they disclose information about sexual
abuse, court heard.
Klassen represented himself
in court despite only having a grade school education. He said
he feels good about the case he presented, but the doubt tears
him up.
"I am not a skeptic, but
I am doubting myself now that it has gone to trial," he
said. "Did I say enough? Did I present enough to get through?
Is the law on my side?"
No matter what the decision,
Klassen said he plans to leave Saskatchewan for Manitoba. He
wants a public inquiry to be called to find out what went wrong.
"I don't know if I can
put it behind me. It's been 13 years," he said.
"I am a bit upset with
being called a child molester. It was what I was last labelled
with, and I want vindication of that."
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