Edmonton Police Watch

(Copyright The Edmonton Journal)

The girl was 9. The boy was 10. Put yourself in their small shoes for a moment and consider their terrible fear on March 14, 1991.

Three Edmonton police officers interrogated the children and their mother, Janice Gariepy, for approximately three hours. The brother and sister can be seen crying uncontrollably in a videotape of the interrogation. Here are a few selected excerpts.

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(Copyright The Edmonton Journal)

Three police officers have been found guilty of misconduct by an independent civilian board for detaining a mother and her two children against their will and threatening the children — aged nine and 10 — with jail unless they told the truth.

One of the three censured is former inspector Jim Cessford, who is now chief of police in Delta, a district outside Vancouver.

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