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Malice and covering malice

November 14, 2000

SASKATOON -- Dueck is no angel and he is not stupid, either.

Dueck is a ciminally minded cop who has managed to circumvent the law because of his position. His crimes are many. He advanced his career by brazenly manipulating three FAS damaged children to tell lies in court to back his charges against people he knew and who have been shown to be innocent. He lied on the stand himself, and tried to persuade the court that he was the helpless dupe of a ten year old boy whom he characterized as "one of the worst" he had ever seen during his time in Youth Division. He fudged dates by claiming not to have a clear recollection of exactly when things happened.

The publicity throughout the trials kept his name in the background locally: only the Globe and Mail and Alberta Report published his name and his deeds. As recently as June, 1999, the StarPhoenix, while publishing his name and accurately describing the events arising out of his investigation did not implicate him as the mastermind behind the case. Dueck was counting on the system keeping the detais of his investigation secret. He almost pulled it off. At least one of the persons against whom he trumped up the charges obtained the disclosure which Dueck had prepared for the Crown. This material -- a dozen hours of videotape and a file full of written matterial was prepared by a clever, corrupt cop with ambition in his mind and malice in his heart. The Saskatchewan Appeal Court was also appalled that the disclosure got into the hands of the accused. It would seem that the system relied on secrets.

Most of the public -- at least those who have bothered to inform themselves at all -- regard the Foster Parent Scandal as a case which went terribly wrong, begun by a bumbling, naive corporal who was misled by a well-meaning but misguided therapist. The scenario goes like his: The cop was, well, a dupe. Remember the original scenario that the children were being sexually used by a Satanic cult? And how there was no evidence that this was true? Dueck and Bunko-Ruys dreamed that one up. The suggestion is that Dueck was just a victim the deranged imaginations of of a ten year old boy and his eight year old sisters. And of course we all know how mischievous kids at that age can be! Dueck didn't have to say any of this. He just played dumb. Dumb like a dingo.

In this version of events, everyone involved was just doing his/her job, seeking only justice and certainly not intentionally hurting anyone. The children were children and most certainly intended to strike back at anyone they ever imagined had slighted them, as children do. They named forty people for Dueck, who knew full well that they would keep naming names as long as he kept promising to pay attention to them. Dueck knew that they were lying. He encouraged them to tell lies. He told them they were brave. He fed them french fries. He made no attempt to corroborate any of their lies before presenting his case to the prosecutor as sworn truth. He had visited the Thompson house BEFORE Michael was brought there. He had certainly prepared the Thompson's for a violent boy, no doubt telling them that the ten year old had attacked a three year old in his previous foster home. Carol Bunko-Ruys knew very well what she was doing when she suggested -- to the children and to Dueck -- that the children were victims of a vast Satanic cult involving their parents and an inticate network of foster parents and their relatives. Dueck KNEW that Stanley Hepner was a convicted child molester and he used this single fact to get the children to tell lies linking together people who did not know each other. He certainly planted ideas in the imagination of Marilyn Thompson who was able to get Michael warmed up for the return of his sisters. The children were told nothing about the reasons for their various moves and were eager to please any adults who would let them call them Mom and Dad!

Early in the game, and it certainly was a game for Dueck, he must have realized that Peter Klassen was a lone pedaphile whose family was horrified by his actions. and had returned him to the fold only after he quit drinking. But Dueck did not quit. He visited convicted killer Beryl Stonechild who had been fostered by Marie Klassen's mother many years earlier and got him to turn snitch against Hepner's son, who would have been nine at the time of the incident he manufactured for Dueck..

Out of the hundreds of children who had been fostered by this family, apart from the Ross children this was the best he could do. Beryl Stonechild claimed to have been sodomized in the bushes when he was six or seven. This tidbit combined with the taped allegations of the Ross children were sufficient to get the crown to okay an arrest warrant. Every single shred of Dueck's evidence was manufactured.

This would have been an excellent time to stop. It would have been an excellent opportunity to admit that they had been wrong and that the children were completely unreliable.

Meetings and telephone conversations between local prosecutors and head prosecutor Richard Quinney took place in earnest. Stanley Hepner was the weak link and they set out to get a conviction on him. They made him an offer which would give him a two year sentence and the staying of charges on the rest of his family. Hepner agreed to plead guilty to assaulting the Ross children to save his family.

The crown's press reports announced that charges had been stayed against all but one of the defendants because the child witnesses were traumatized by the court proceedings. They could relay the charges if they found more evidence within the next twelve months. But for now they had to release back into the community sixteen people who they believed to be child molesters and worse.

This is what Richard Quinney led the Saskatchewan public to believe. It is what many of the Saskatchewan public believe to this day: that there are monsters among us who are too wiley for the cops to catch.

Richard Quinney and his employees, the Saskatoon Police Service and its corporal, Brian Dueck, and Social Services and its contract therapist Carol Bunko-Ruys thought they had got away from the table with a partial win. Dueck got the first of two large promotions. Miazga has gone on to try high profile cases, although Hansen's career seems to be more or less stalled. Bunko-Ruys expanded her practice.

Imagine their horror when they discovered that the stayed defendants had possession of the disclosure material! Videotapes which were intended only to be seen by prosecutors and defence lawyers, trancripts which cost a small fortune. Therapist reports which acknowledged the severity of the children's problems. All this material contained evidence that Dueck, Bunko-Ruys and the Crown prosecutors all KNEW full well that their case was based on sick fantasies coaxed out of distressed children by interviewers using techniques ANY lay person would immediately recognize as flawed.

The cover-up began in earnest as Dueck and his bosses ordered the arrest of citizens who tried to bring the truth of what had really happened. Some charges stuck, others didn't. In 1998, injusticebusters posted the material on the internet. The local server shut us down but we paid for space on a U.S. server. Thousands of people who would otherwise never have heard of this case now follow the developments regularly. Many are interested in the outcome of the $10M lawsuit for malicious prosecution as a victory here would set a precedent for other cases where the Crown has stooped to malice.

1990

Dueck conducts his investigation into the Klassen and Kvello foster families, Helen and Don Ross and Don White.

Helen and Don Ross are the profoundly deaf birth parents of three children who were removed from their custody and placed in foster care in 1987. Don White is Helen's new partner. Dale and Anita Klassen were the foster parents with whom the children were placed.

Dueck's investigation consisted of digging up what dirt he could on any of these people and coercing criminals and the children to testify to unspeakable acts performed on them and to name as many people as possible to implicate in these crimes. He did not, however, make any attempt to dig up the yard where the children claimed bodies of dead babies were buried. He based his case solely and completely on the children's wacky testimony and corroborated it only with social worker testimony that the children were disturbed and were therefore telling the truth in the restricted area of the allegations.

1991

During the spring, Dueck went to Red Deer to interrogate Dale and Anita, Rick and Kari Klassen. He was unable to find John and Myrna Klassen at this time.

In Saskatoon he went after Peter and Marie Klassen, Pamela Klassen and Diane Kvello who is Anita Klassen's sister, Diane's husband Dennis and their minor children. He visited neighbours, made salacious suggestions and used information from private Social Services files to embarrass, humiliate and spread terror among his targets. In July,

18 people were arrested and in the fall, the trials began.

This was the same year he arrested NDP MLA hopeful David Green on trumped up charges of rape which were stayed only because Green was able to prove he was not in the country at the time the alleged incident occurred.

1992

Having obtained convictions on Ross Ross and White, the Crown took a plea bargain from Peter Klassen and stayed the chargeson the remaining people. The media reported that the charges were stayed because the children were too traumatized to continue and left the deliberate and clear impression that monsters had been set free in the community.

1993

John Lucas received evidence that Dueck had received complaints from two eight year girls that their older brother was sexually assaulting them on a regular basis and that Dueck had ignored the complaints in 1991.

Lucas's evidence further showed that there was strong reason to believe that the assaults were still going on. Lucas provided the evidence of his allegations to the Saskatoon Police Service. This evidence was in the form of videotaped interviews conducted by Dueck and contract therapist Carol Bunko-Ruys along with court transcripts..

Lucas also provided copies of this evidence to Chris Axworthy (who was then Member of Parliament for Saskatoon), and the Department of Social Services. Rather than act upon Lucas's allegations, Axworthy turned the tapes and transcripts over to the Justice Department, beginning an investigation into Lucas and how he came to have in his possession disclosure material that they intended to keep secret.

Lucas began postering in June of 93, and was arrested eight times between then and December 94. He was placed on an undertaking which forbade him to conduct ANY actions, including speaking to another person on the subject of child sexual abuse.

Rick Klassen moved his family back to Saskatoon from Red Deer at the beginning of September, 1993. After Lucas was effectively gagged, he took up the campaign and faxed, postered, wrote letters and talked to anyone who would listen about how Dueck and thereapist Carol Bunko-Ruys had hornswoggled the justice system.

1994

The Klassens and Kvellos filed their $10M lawsuit against Dueck and others.Klassen contacted Steele and the two began a postering campaign calling for a public inquiry. Lucas was constantly harrassed and threatened with arrest.

On August 26, after the Alberta government had released its report clearing Saskatchewan of any wrongdoing in the Milgaard case, Steele and Klassen along with ten other people picketed the Provincial Court house in Saskatoon protesting the Alberta conclusions and raising questions about Martensville and the Foster Parent case.

John Lucas went to the United States and asked for political asylum. Before Christmas, he was returned to Saskatchewan and held in custody.

1995

Steele's and Klassen's case went to Preliminary Inquiry. Three of the charges were dropped and they were ordered to stand trial on one count each of criminal defamation against Dueck.

In July, the charges against Steele were quashed on writ of certiorary. That summer the Supreme Court heard the Ross, Ross and White case and ordered an acquittal for Don White and new trials for Helen and Don Ross.

1996

John and Johanna Lucas lost before the Saskatchewan Appeal Court and served their time. They appealed their convictions to the Supreme Court on Charter grounds.

Richard Klassen went to trial and won a directed jury acquittal on the Crown's evidence against him.

At the zero hour the Crown appealed his acquittal but refused to provide grounds. The only thing they would say was that they were awaiting the outcome of the Lucas appeal.

1997

During this year entire year, Richard Klassen was held hostage by the Court. There were many citizen rights he could not enjoy while criminal charges were pending against him.

He was also harassed by persons perhaps inflamed by Dueck.

In April Dueck threatened to turn Hell's Angels loose on the wife of postal worker Kim Cooper if Cooper did not cooperate with fellow sergeant Murray Zoorkan's "Rambo" investigation against him. It may be significant that Hell's Angels were preparing to move into Saskatoon at this time.

Head of Public Prosecutions is interviewed by the StarPhoenix and brags that the many lawsuits against the Justice Department will not be won. This is after the Alberta government has again exonerated Saskatchewan in the Martensville case, but Quinney leads the public to believe the inquiry also covered the Foster Parent trials.

1998

Dueck heads the Integrated Drug Unit. Injusticebusters website is launched on Sympatico in June and by July, with no court order but claiming fear of being sued, removes the website. Since Dueck was the main target of the site, we feel it is safe to assume that either he or one of hiscohorts had a hand in this.

Steele's son sells less than an eighth of an ounce of marijuana to a wired (both radio-wired and a junkie) agent of Dueck's who is making buys in the Flotilla sting. In a subsequent sting, he beats up a junkie in a wheelchair who is legally part of the methadone program. Hell's Angels officially set up shop in Saskatoon.

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1999

Dueck becomes Superintendent. He heads the integrated Drug Unit which works with RCMP narcotics cops and co-ordinates, among other things, the methadone clinic and the drugstores which dispense methadone. injusticebusters know for a fact that these programs are sloppily run. Methadone, Ritalin and morphine, the three main narcotics dispensed by Dr. Brian Fern's clinic are traded liberally on the streets.

2000

Dueck is Superintendent of the West Side when Darryl Night discloses his harrowing experience of having been driven to the Queen Elizabeth Power Plant and told to walk back to town. As soon as Night's allegation became public, Dueck called a press conference where he claimed sympathy for the community and bemoaned there was nowhere to take drunks. All of Canada watches Saskatoon as two dead Natives are found near the Queen Elizabeth Power station, the same place where Night claimed to have been dropped.

A few weeks later, Dueck's name came up in provincial court regarding his part in coercing a statement from postal worker Kim Cooper. Fifth Estate attempts to interview him and he says he cannot talk because his lawyers have gagged him.

After the Fifth Estate program aired on Nov. 29, he sought an interview with CBC Saskatchewan's Jo Lynn Sheane where he continued to claim he was gagged but that if was free to talk, he would be able to show how he was right and we are wrong. His lawyer quietly applied to the court during the Christmas holidays when most lawyers were distracted to get a gag order against Richard Klassen and injusticebusters. Incompetent counsel for Klassen allowed him to get it. (Ed Holgate failed to put Klassen's denials into the record).

2001

Dueck has carried on. January 16 he successfully tricked a Queen's Bench judge to issue a gag order against Richard Klassen on material obtained through discovery in the lawsuit filed against him and provincial government departments. This was done by claiming that this website had disclosed material obtained through discovery in the lawsuit against him and the province. This was not and is not true, but since Klassen's defence failed to file an affidavit claiming otherwise, the judge found in Dueck's favour. He also ordered Klassen to pay him $1240 in costs!

During the spring, no doubt emboldened by having successfully duped several courts, Dueck has a new photo taken and is prominently placed on the Saskatoon Police Service website.

In July, we see for the first time some notes given to Ed Holgate in 1995 as lawyer for the plaintiffs in the lawsuit. Holgate has not told Klassen he had this material. The notes consist of police reports and serve to confirm our hypotheses. There is no sign of his notebook which would give us a clearer guide to exactly when some of the undated material was written but the pile of paper contains Dueck's own chronology.

After November, we got some more material that Dueck had failed to disclose to the accused foster and birth parents. We found several incidents of clear perjury, where he had fudged dates and degrees of involvement, telling one story in one court and a different one in another. He showed a real talent for deception and it became clearer how he was able to manipulate the Ross children and set himself up as their role model.

He was confident that we would never see this material and be in a position to compare his perjured statements because of the Macpherson gag order.

He had other reasons to be smug in having pulled off a massive fraud upon the courts: injusticebusters have found some evidence that Bill Peterson, then editor of the StarPhoenix, had given a promise to not publish the facts of this case.

Injusticebusters take some pride in having at least prevented Dueck from becoming chief of the police force, and are horrified at just how close he came. We also know we kept Axworthy out of the premier's office.

This is cold comfort as we watch the Ross siblings struggle on bare subsistence -- these people who, as children were so useful to advancing the careers of many and putting a lot of cash in the pockets of a lot of unscrupulous people who are plump and live in nice accommodation and go regularly for holidays in comfortable places. The Ross siblings and their birth parents live in the ruined communities of the Saskatoon west side where Dueck has been in charge for many years.

Getting rid of him and seeing him fully account for his unconscionable actions would provide some hope for this dispossessed and demoralized community.

As recently as May 10, Dueck has been in the news, as a witness in the Lloyd Dustyhorn inquest -- this time claiming to be frustrated because the city lacks proper detox facilities.

Saskatoon was cited by Amnesty International for its treatment of Native people.

Saskatoon Police Story index

 

Dueck's testimony at Steele's and Klassen's preliminary hearing

Dueck's notes

This case might not have started out malicious. Dueck might have actually thought he was making honest arrests of people who were guilty of molesting and otherwise horribly abusing children. Five minutes into his investigation he must have seen realized that his original hypothesis was wrong. That is when he should have stopped. To carry on as he did was not only malicious, but vicious. He counted on staring down the people whose lives he ruined by using his position to silence them. He had five people charged with criminally defaming him. He became more of a bully, threatenening at least one citizen's family with violent visitations from a motorcycle gang.

Michael Ross is now 23 years old. Because he has been able to find out material through injusticebusters' website, he has been able to see the consequences of the lies he told at the age of ten and is making a serious effort to set right the things he has done wrong.

We expect no less from Brian Dueck, Carol Bunko-Ruys and Richard Quinney.

The Ross children, who are damaged and living among us, should be provided with a living allowance which would allow them to live well beyond the standard they are now forced to try and live within, administered by a trustee, receive psychiatric help from a shrink of their choice for the rest of their lives, and have tuition paid for any course they wish to take for which they are qualified. They should be allowed to make at least as many bad choices as Brian Dueck has made before receiving any punishment. They have received enough punishment to last them the rest of their lives.