Royal Canadian Mounted Police officers face sex-related criminal charges
(June 2007)
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“…The misconduct case of [Prince George] Const. Justin Harris was reopened last December. He had been accused of buying sex from underage prostitutes. But the RCMP’s disciplinary panel had thrown out his case a few months earlier because the commanding officer had not launched the disciplinary hearing within the proper time frame.
In June 2006, Adam Jonathan Clarke, a former [Langley] RCMP officer, was charged with two counts of child luring after using police computers to convince a 12-year-old and a 15-year-old to produce pornography for him.”
(Excerpt from Vancouver Sun article, June 25, 2007)
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RCMP officer faces 6 criminal charges
Constable’s offences linked to child porn investigation, police say
Linda Nguyen
Vancouver Sun; with files from North Shore News
Saturday, June 09, 2007
RICHMOND – An RCMP constable has been charged with six criminal offences in connection with a continuing child pornography investigation.
Const. Khomphet (Kam) Khamphoune, 33, was charged at Richmond provincial court after a “lengthy investigation” dating from January, said RCMP Cpl. Peter Thiessen.
Thiessen said although he cannot comment much about the case, he confirmed the charges are in connection with the pornography investigation.
Khamphoune, an East Vancouver resident who has been an RCMP officer for six years, has been suspended from work with pay since the beginning of the investigation.
Khamphoune faces charges of possessing stolen property under $5,000, possessing a firearm not registered to him, possessing prohibited ammunition, illegal storage of a firearm, tampering with evidence and breach of trust.
He is continuing to be investigated by the courts for links to child pornography.
“The Crown has the investigation package and it is their choice whether [child pornography] charges are appropriate,” he said.
In 2004, Khamphoune was cleared of two disgraceful conduct charges by an RCMP disciplinary board after a 16-year-old West Vancouver girl alleged he offered her money in exchange for sexual favours when she was 15. The girl had alleged the constable, who was with the North Vancouver detachment at the time, tried to buy oral sex and touched her in the breast area after she was arrested for shoplifting. She also alleged the constable offered her marijuana.
RCMP Supt. John Reid, who was on the three-panel board, said at the conclusion of the hearing that the constable’s actions were “professional … [and] if anything, his unbridled enthusiasm made him vulnerable to this kind of situation.” At the time, he was also suspended from work with pay.
Reid also called the girl “an out-of-control young lady who thinks she can do what she wants without any consequences.”
Phone calls to Khamphoune residence Friday were not returned.
The officer’s next court appearance is scheduled for July 5.
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Former Mountie jailed for stealing female officers’ panties
Soiled and swapped colleagues’ underpants, also possessed child pornography
Kelly Sinoski
Vancouver Sun
Saturday, June 09, 2007
REVELSTOKE – A former Revelstoke Mountie who broke into four female RCMP
officers’ homes to soil and steal their panties will spend the next year behind bars.
James Adam Carson has been sentenced to a year in jail after pleading guilty to 10 counts related to break and entering, theft, and accessing and possession of child pornography.
Carson was arrested last year after his DNA from a coffee cup matched stains on the women’s underwear. A subsequent search of his home computer also found more than 32,000 pictures and videos of pornography, including 24 videos involving children.
The Crown had argued Carson’s offences were reprehensible and involved a “very serious breach of trust and a flagrant abuse of authority on numerous occasions over an extended period of time.”
The court heard how Carson took the members’ keys from their personal property at the RCMP detachment and made copies at three different key-cutting shops in Revelstoke.
He then entered the different officers’ homes, where he stole bras and panties or masturbated in them, leaving them soiled and balled up for the officers to find later.
The Crown noted Carson often took the underwear with him, with intent to transfer it from one member’s home to another. It was stored in a Rubbermaid container in his bedroom closet until he made the switch.
The women often found unfamiliar underwear in their drawers and eventually realized their missing underwear was turning up at other officers’ homes. Carson justified the offences by saying he had an “ever-increasing need for excitement,” according to the Crown’s sentencing notes. (If he wanted more excitement how about investigating prostitution and strippers links to the Hell’s Angels.)
According to Dr. Liam Ennis, a clinical forensic psychologist requested by the defence counsel, Carson experiences chronic feelings of anxiety and tends to direct those negative feelings toward women.
His actions were acts of “premeditated opportunism that were planned and rehearsed repeatedly in his imagination” before he did them, Ennis said, according to the Crown’s sentencing notes.
Ennis said Carson’s sexual arousal is closely linked with feeling powerful “by creating real or imagined circumstances in which he can feel sexually potent without fear of rejection or criticism.”
Stealing and ejaculating in women’s underwear allows him a “sense of non-consenting sexual access.” His preference for conventional, non-coercive sex means he surrounds himself with non-threatening sexual partners such as young girls and fetish objects.
Ennis said Carson was at moderate risk for breaking-and-entering and accessing child pornography in the future. (Since he is going to gaol and has lost his career and has been publicly exposed as a disgraced RCMP member and a sexual deviant his anxiety level must be higher than ever. That should increase his chances of wanting to reoffend.)
But until he resolves his feelings of inadequacy and associated anger towards women, Ennis said, Carson would be inclined to “engage in maladaptive behaviours.” (He can’t even hold a job as a RCMP officer and is a porn addict and can’t even steal panties without getting caught. He
doesn’t just feel inadequate he is inadequate.)
Carson, in his late 20s, had worked at the RCMP for four years before he was arrested. He later resigned from the force and moved to Leduc, Alta., with his wife and young child.
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Ex-Mountie acquitted of wrongdoing after sex with girl, 14
Valerie Wilson
CanWest News Service
Friday, June 08, 2007
NANAIMO — A former Vancouver Island Mountie was acquitted Friday of using the Internet to lure a child to have sex and touching a young person for a sexual purpose.
Seth Paine, 32, was charged after the constable had sex with a 14-year-old girl he met over the Internet in early 2006.
Judge Michael Hubbard, in handing down his decision in Nanaimo provincial court, said while Paine did not behave in a way one would expect as a member of the RCMP, in his review of the “evolution of the relationship,” Mr. Paine had no control or influence over the girl, who’s now 16.
The judge also found that Mr. Paine was not in a position of trust or authority in regard to the girl, and that the computer was not used to lure her.
Mr. Paine was suspended from the Mounties after the charges were laid and later resigned.
Outside court, defence lawyer Ted Beaubier said his client is “relieved.” “It is a fact-driven case,” he said. “It was a unique set of facts that the judge dealt with. I think the judge made the right decision.”
He said the evidence in the case did not put his client in the category of a person of authority or trust, or that he exploited the relationship. “It is not a situation where the law is necessarily sanctioning sex with 14-year-olds,” Mr. Beaubier said.
It is not illegal in Canada for a person to have sex with someone aged 14 to 18, provided that person is not in a position of trust, in a position of authority or provided the relationship is not exploited.
The prosecution’s main argument in the case was that Paine did use his status as a police officer to gain the girl’s trust.
In the Crown’s final submissions before the court Friday, prosecutor Dan Scanlan said a police officer is held at a higher standard than the ordinary person and he used that to build the trust in the relationship with the complainant.
“If you have that role in society it stays with you,” Mr. Scanlan said. “Mr. Paine made consistent and persistent use of his role in (society) to facilitate this relationship. He doesn’t get to switch that role off, in my submission.”
The Crown has not said whether or not it will appeal the decision. The girl, who cannot be identified, testified that in January 2006 she posted a profile of herself on an adult website designed for people “looking to sleep with each other.”
She said she responded to a user who called himself, “One hot cop for you,” and at first told him she was over 18, but later pointed him to a website with her correct age.
After establishing a time and place to meet for sex, she testified that on Feb. 21, 2006, she met with the accused and they had consensual sex. But in the weeks that followed, “things just kind of festered inside of me” during the weeks following her final e-mail contact with a Vancouver Island RCMP officer.
She eventually told her parents what had happened and the next day, they filed a statement with police.
Confrontation 
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