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Wheels of justice turn slowly in sex case Local group hopes to raise awareness over exploitation of young girls BY CORNELIA NAYLOR cnaylor@chilliwacktimes.com
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Miguel Godinez speaks to the media outside the Chilliwack Courthouse Tuesday after sentencing of Jon Orders who was criminally negligent in his daughter Lenami’s death.
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“He was not a professional. I think this sentence is not good for anybody.” Miguel Godinez
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efence, Crown counsel and a judge agreed that five months in jail was a suitable sentence for the hang-gliding instructor guilty of criminal negligence causing death after 27-year-old Lenami Godinez-Avila was killed falling more than 300 metres to the ground. But the victim’s father doesn’t agree. “He was not a professional,” Miguel Godinez said outside Chilliwack court
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Everyone but her father agrees five months in jail is an appropriate sentence for hang-gliding instructor Tuesday after B.C. Supreme Court judge Brian Joyce handed down his sentence. “I think this sentence is not good for anybody.” The court heard how Godinez-Avila, who was a Mexican citizen, was not properly strapped in during a tandem
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hang-gliding flight with Orders and how, after a 90-second struggle in the air in which she tried to hang on, she fell from a distance estimated at between 1,000 and 1,800 feet.
Chilliwack man facing a total of 13 prostitution and sex charges involving girls younger than 16 made a court appearance last week just as the Chilliwack Child and Youth Committee geared up for Stop Sexual Exploitation of Our Children and Youth Awareness Week this week. David Thomas Hilpert, 53, is charged with multiple counts of sexual assault, sexual interference, procuring a person to become a prostitute, being a householder permitting sexual activity and obtaining sexual services of a person under the age of 18. The charges date back to 2010, when a 14-year-old Chilliwack girl connected with the case was also arrested for allegedly recruiting other young girls into the sex trade. Police said the girl, whose name can’t be released because of her age, had posted an online ad on Craigslist’s erotic services page, claiming she was 18 years old. Hilpert is alleged, along with the other charges, to have procured sex from the girl. He was in Chilliwack B.C. Supreme Court Friday to confirm a trial date for April, but his lawyer, who has only recently taken over the case, applied
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