Man arrested for child sexual assaults, but there may be more victims
KELOWNA – A police investigation into multiple cases of sexual assault involving children has resulted in an arrest, but RCMP fear there may be more victims.
Kelowna RCMP received a report Feb. 17 about the sexual assaults along with the identity of a suspect. As a result David James McHale, 61, of Peachland was arrested, according to a media release. Police say he's known to RCMP.
McHale has since been charged with numerous accounts of sexual assault related offences against children. Investigators are concerned there may be more victims and want to speak with anyone who may have further information.
Due to a court ordered publication ban the number and identities of known victims are being withheld, according to RCMP Cpl. Joe Duncan.
If you know any child who has had contact with McHale, contact Kelowna RCMP child abuse section Cpl. Tretiak at 250-470-6368.
McHale remains in custody and is scheduled to appear in Kelowna Provincial Court April 9, 2015.
To contact the reporter for this story, email Adam Proskiw at aproskiw@infonews.ca or call 250-718-0428. To contact the editor, email mjones@infonews.ca or call 250-718-2724.
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Addressing the broader issues beyond the alleged behaviors in this news report, it should be noted thatscientific studies based on legitimate empirical evidence do not support the mass hysteria and moral panic that currently surrounds sexually expressed child/older person relationships, which are invariably cast as “child sex abuse/pedophilia.” Like masturbation and homosexuality were demonized in the past, these irrational emotional responses are based on ignorance and fear, and are promoted by agenda-driven “victimological” academics who argue that all such relationships are intrinsically pervasively harmful. But is this supposed harm intrinsic to the interaction, or does it instead result from the social hysteria that occurs when such a relationship is discovered? Also, there are no legitimate data supporting intrinsic harmfulness, and no credible pathway or mechanism for such harm has been demonstrated. For further discussion, see http://www.shfri.net/mech/mech.cgi.There are indeed some people who trick or force children into unwanted sexual interactions. But there are vast differences between consensual sexually expressed child/older person relationships and unilateral “child sexual abuse” by an older person. For a scientific journal discussion of these distinctions as they apply to boys, go to http://www.boyandro.info.
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