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Substance abuse major trigger for serial rapist By Dale Bass STAFF REPORTER dale@kamloopsthisweek.com
Although an assessment identified Jack Froese as having an antisocial personality, the convicted rapist did well in a year-long program he attended for sex offenders. Linda Hollingshead, a psychiatric nurse with the Clearwater Sex Offender program, run by the federal government in its regional psychiatric centre in Saskatoon, told a hearing to have Froese designated a dangerous offender that the man was at first quiet in group therapy sessions, but later started to participate. Froese pleaded guilty last year to charges of kidnapping and sexual assault after he took a woman from a store on Tranquille
Road on Nov. 25, 2011, drugged and assaulted her over several hours and later released her in the Batchelor Heights area. Froese has a long criminal record of convictions for violent sexual offences and, at the time of the Kamloops assault, had been released just months earlier after spending most of the previous eight years in a federal prison. At the time of his release and return to live with his mother, stepfather, sister and niece, Kamloops Mounties advised the public of his presence in the city and said he had been deemed a high risk to re-offend. Hollingshead said she worked directly with Froese from his arrival in March 2006 to his completion of the program in February 2007.
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When defence lawyer Jeremy Jensen asked her if she would be surprised to know Froese was not required to attend substanceabuse programs after his release to Kamloops, Hollingshead replied: “Absolutely. I would be concerned. Drugs are part of his offending.” She told Jensen viewing pornography would be another trigger for Froese and, if it was violent pornography, “it would impact how he was thinking. It’s part of his crime cycle and could lead to him progressing to another offence.” Again in response to a question from Jensen about access to pornography, Hollingshead said she would have serious concerns if she knew he was doing so. X See FROESE A2