20 YEAR SENTANCE FOR RAPE.

'Hemlock Rapist' Cromwell sentenced to 20 years
Canadian Press
CALGARY — Serial rapist Emile Cromwell, whose
Vicious night-time attacks on women in their homes
only ended after a brutal attack on a young babysitter
shocked him into realizing his behaviour was
monstrous, was sentenced Thursday to 20 years in
prison.
"It's more than I hoped for," said Jane Ferguson, who
was bound and raped by Cromwell 17 years ago in
her walk-up apartment on Hemlock Crescent.
"I never dreamed he'd be put away for this long."
Ferguson and fellow victim Shannon Deneve, who
had asked the court to lift publication bans on their
names, said the extended sentence will help them
move forward.
"The only closure we may gain from this is that my
husband, children and I can go back to the life we
were living before this came out," said Deneve,
now a 45-year-old mother of two.
Cromwell, a diminutive 62-year-old handyman from
nearby Bragg Creek, didn't look at his victims who
had gathered in court to see punishment meted out
to the man who has haunted their nightmares for
years. Cromwell pleaded guilty in April to eight
sex-related counts dating back to 1988.
Provincial court Judge Anne Brown described
Cromwell's crimes as calculated and said they sowed
fear in a community that lasted for many years.
The judge noted that Cromwell was so repulsed to
learn his final victim in 1992 was a 13-year-old girl
that he sought treatment for his anger and became
a model citizen, living with his third wife and two
daughters. His neighbours came forward after his
arrest in 2004 to pledge their support for the man
they regarded as an upstanding citizen.
"I express my fervent hope that as Mr. Cromwell
begins paying for his crimes, his Bragg Creek
community will continue to ... support him and his
family," said the judge.
Although Cromwell provided the DNA sample that
led to his arrest last December, Brown noted he
"waited some 12½ years after the last offence,
until scientific investigation techniques caught up
with him."
But she rejected a call from prosecutor Les Grieve,
who had asked that Cromwell serve at least half
his sentence before being considered for parole.
In the late 1980s, women in the neighbourhood of
Spruce Cliff were living in fear of an attacker who
had targeted an apartment building just west of
Calgary's downtown and whose assaults grew
ever more violent. Before the attacks mysteriously
stopped in 1992, police worried the man dubbed
the Hemlock Rapist could kill his next victim.
In the final assault, a babysitter who had been
sleeping on a couch was bound with a television
cord and dragged to a nearby field where she was
sexually assaulted with such force her vagina
and anus were torn. Now a young mother,
she finds Cromwell's contrition hard to accept.
"It seems like a crock to me," said the young woman.
"Because I was a child he realized he had a problem?
He should have realized it before and got treatment
so none of us would have had to go through this."
In court last month, Cromwell delivered an
emotionless apology to his four victims, saying he
had lived with shame and remorse for his actions.
A psychiatric assessment described Cromwell as
a sexual sadist and a voyeur with antisocial
personality traits. It was recommended that he take
part in sexual offender treatments and anger
management counselling.

AT LAST WE ARE BEING HEARD
NO MORE 2-5 YR SENTENCES
I PRAY!