Jeannie McKay
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160 appearances
4 recordings
1 series
first heard Jan 2025
last heard Jan 2025
Jeannie McKay’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I don't blame her for feeling upset. It is disturbing, baffling, especially given my previous reporting experience. I spent more than a year investigating crimes against teen boys for the first season of the band played on. In one case, we saw a former high school teacher let out of court in handcuffs. He went to prison for touching boys over their clothing, propositioning them.
Many of those violations happened in the 1970s and 80s before new sexual assault laws were enacted. This current case took place over the same time period and the women say their teacher raped them. Yet police tell the women there was no law to protect them. Under the law, how could there be such a different approach for boy victims and girl victims? How can there be a double standard in Canada?
I need a legal expert to explain, so I go to an academic I've spoken to before. She's in Vancouver.
Okay, I've got the right person. She joins me via video from her office at UBC.
Well, we know all about that. Anne-Marie Robinson lived it. But now, once again, police have told Ali what the teacher did. Having sex with a student in 1987 was not illegal.
The tools Professor Benedet is talking about are different charges, laws that were already on the books and could be applied to cases that happened before 1988. But they are charges not often used in crimes against girls, such as gross indecency.
In the past, the gross indecency law was used to convict gay men who had consensual sex with other men. So it's definitely been a problematic law.
She means a case where a teacher assaulted female students.
So why aren't the police looking at that charge? The whole situation leaves the survivors indignant and furious.
The he Jeannie McKay is talking about is Doug Walker. I've joined the blipsters on their regular call. Ali has just filled them in.
Well, I kind of see Anne-Marie as the deputy minister of the group.
Allie is listening. They validate her own anger and sadness. She put herself out there. This group gave Allie the confidence to tell the detective her story.
Police inaction only feeds that shame. It doesn't take it away. And it all leaves me with more homework to do. I have more questions for the music teacher himself. I haven't contacted Doug Walker in more than a year. I corresponded with him before I published the initial investigation about Anne-Marie and Jeannie, but now there have been many more allegations by many more women.
The former teacher needs an opportunity to respond. I start writing down questions, and I send him an email requesting an interview. I wait to hear back. Then I continue my legal research. I Google, look up studies, read law papers, and contact people across the country. But there's a provision in the criminal code that vitiates consent.
And I learn more about legal provisions than I ever thought I'd have to. I chat with more academics, former Crown attorneys, legal advocates. I seek out those who know and understand old sexual assault laws and how they're applied to cases involving boy victims or girl victims. This is a dysfunctional area of law.
Then during one of our chats, Anne-Marie remembers the first lawyer she ever spoke to about her case. She asks me to find him.
This was way back, about eight years ago, before she went to the police, before she met me. The Ontario government had just set up a pilot program.
The program is free for victims of sexual assault. It's available in several provinces. It provides four hours with a lawyer.
That's at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario.
Blair is a big man with a big smile and a warm laugh. I can see how he would have put Anne-Marie at ease. He comes with years of experience at law clinics at two Ontario universities. He hears from many victims, most of them women.
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