AG - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, July 2, 1997 Police Beat Jail for sex assault A TERRACE man has been sentenced to six months in jail and 18 months probation for sexually assaulting an 11-year-old girl. Chad Miller, 26, was sentenced by Judge Edmond deWalle in Terrace court Friday, June 20. Miller will serve bis time in the corrections centre in Prince George. Conditions of Miller’s probation include participating in an intensive supervision program for sex offenders and psychological counselting. He is also not allowed to engage in activities or employment that would bring him into contact with children under 16 years, and is forbidden from being in the company of children under the age of 16 without supervision, except with his own child. Miller’s charges stemmed from an incident occurring September 1 1995 when Miller was babysitting for a family in Terrace. Man jailed for puncturing ex-girlfriend’s ear drum A WOMAN who’s ex-boyfriend hit her hard enough to puncture her ear drum will likely sleep easier for the next six months. Ian Jay Morven, 26, will spend that time in prison for assaulting his girlfriend on April 20, 1996. Judge Paul Lawrence also sentenced Morven to two years of probation June 6. Conditions of the probation include having no contact with the victim and only indirect contact through a counsellor to gain access to the couple’s children. Mor- ven is also to attend violence counselling. Morven had been previously convicted of assaulting the victim, who says she suffers some hearing loss from the most recent attack. Three strikes, he’s out Rt at BE A PE PY has received a three month jail term at tthe Terrace Cor- rectional Centre. On June 9, Robert Gordon Elliot, a 1 repent offender, was sentenced by Judge Edmond deWalle to three months for each of three separate assaults, to be served concurrently. Elliot had been convicted af one count of assault and two counts of assault causing bodily harm, stemming from an incident that occurred March 22 in Terrace against three different men. Stereo equipment nicked SOME $1,500 worth of stereo equipment was stolen from a vehicle parked outside a Thornhill residence on June 24. Police say the theft occurred sometime between 1:30 am. and 9 a.m. Tuesday moming. Items stolen in- cluded a Pioneer CD player, Kenwood amplifier, and Rockford Fosgate subwoofer. Driver hurt in crash A TERRACE person had to be flown to Vancouver with spinal injuries suffered in a car accident June 26. The accident occurred at the comer of Kenney and Walsh Streets and involved two vehicles. Police are continuing their investigation and ask any- one who may have witnessed the accident to call the Terrace detachment at 638-7400. PA EDCAL man convicted of. ‘assaulting: abreespeople: vt Speed check RCMP OFFICER J.A. Walker keeps an eye on cars driving past the city's new speed board set up on Halliwell Ave. last week, The board flashes up the speed of passing motorists {0 serve as a reminder for people to slow down, It will also be available for citizens’ groups concerned with traffic speed. in their neighbourhoods. | Misconduct costs principal teaching status By CRIS LEYKAUF DETAILS OF _ sexual harassment charges against Dx. Art Tindill, former prin- cipal of Nisga’a Elementary-Secondary school, have been revealed. Tindill came to the Nass two years ago, after being forced to resign his $100,000-a-year job as as- sistant superintendent in Surrey. Six women working with’ him in the Surrey district complained he sexually harassed them from 1985- 1994, A disciplinary panel with thee B.C. College of Teachers unanimously recommended in April that Tindill’s teaching certificate be cancelled, because of professional § misconduct. Tindill left his job in the Nass this April when he learned he would Iose his certificate. Teachers at the Nisga’a elementary secondary school were in disbelief when they heard details of the disciplinary report, said current Nass principal, Ed- ward McMillan. McMillan served as vice- principal under Tindill, and -was' promoted: ‘whi Tin left he school. + “He was an‘ excellent ad- ministrator,”’ .said McMil- lan. ‘‘Everyone appreciated his professionalism.’’ He said there were no in- dications of any problems in Tindill’s relationships with staff or parents. Ravi Gill, head of the leacher’s union in the Nass,- said Tindill was cooperative and had good relationships with teachers, parents and the union, Doug Smart, registrar with the B.C. College of Teachers, said he also wasi’t aware of any prab- lems between Tindill and teachers in the Nass school district, Smart also added that it wasn’t considered — in- appropriate that Tindill remain teaching in another district while the dis- ciplinary committee looking into the charges readied a report. Gill said the union knew Northern Lights Gallery Kermode Friendship Centre Ikon Geraldine Gunanoot ; Nisga’a Tribal Council, Terrace Local The First Nations Education Centre, Iskut Band, Kermode Friendship Centre, Kitselas Elders Group, Kitsumkalum Band, Nisga’a Tribal Council - Terrace Local and Tahitan Band gratefully thank the fotiowing individuals, organizations and businesses for contributing to the First Nations Achievement Awards on June 07, 1997 at Kitsumkalum Recreation Centre: Stan Bevan Science & Nature SpeeDee Printers Moses Stewart Tom Daniels Katherine Davis’. 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Scotia Bank © oo a about Tindill’s investigation when the district hired him, and adopted a ‘‘watch and see approach.’* The hearing on .Tindill’s behaviour was held last No- vember, and the report was presented to the College of Teacher’s council in April. Details of the case were recently released to teachers. The disciplinary report Stated ‘‘Dr. Tindill engaged in conduct which amounted to a pattern of abuse of power and discriminatory sexual harassment,”’ The six women involved were administrators, teachers and _ clerical workers. ‘The harassing be- haviours included unwanted touching of the shoulders, neck, back, buttocks and jewellery of the women as well as kissing on the lips, licking the back of one vic- tim’s hand in a restaurant and putting his head.in one viclim’s lap under a table at a district social event,” said the report. The report also found that many of the incidents of harassment “took place in -full view of the most. senior. radministrators :rwithini' the district, leaving the, victims feeling they had no one to whom they could turn to report Dr.-Tindill.’” Tindill. © couldn’t be reached for comment on the report. Nass scheol district heads weren’t available. Tindill can reapply for membership in the College of Teachers after two years. McMillan. says Tindill’s leaving was difficult on the school. ‘There was a lot of Silence here when he first left.”’ McMillan said he learned a lot from Tindill while he was at the Nisga’a school. During Tindill’s tenure the school went through a very successful accredilation pro- cess, Tindill created close ties between the school and parents, changed the school to a semester sysiem and had administrators become more closely involved in the classrooms, said McMillan. 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