Youth worker says Facebook abuse manual just tip of terrifying Castlegar iceberg
By Kyra Hoggan
A how-to manual detailing how to abuse young girls that was posted on Facebook by two Castlegar men is but the tip of a terrifying iceberg, according to local youth worker James McFaddin.
McFaddin, youth worker and men’s outreach coordinator for Castlegar & District Community Services Society, said the document ‘Deflowered in Seconds’ is the least of a sub-culture that should scare local parents half to death. “Men are holding what’s called ‘LG parties’ (‘LG’ standing for ‘little girl’), in which the entire goal is to have the most degrading sex possible with as many girls as possible,” he said, adding men as young as 16 and as old as 35 have been known attend the parties. “If you read that manual, you’ll see that the goal is to commit the worst acts possible to these girls so that it’s too embarrassing and humiliating for them to tell anyone.” He said that, while the authors of the Facebook manual unabashedly describe how to ply underage girls with alcohol, he’s also spoken to many, many young men who have told him date-rape drugs like Ketamine and GHB are readily available to them in Castlegar … and they are absolutely in use at these parties. “I’ve spoken to so many local young girls who have been abused, but they’ll only hint or imply that they have,” he said. “They’re too ashamed and afraid to tell anyone what has happened to them.” He said the manual, which repeatedly refers to the targeted little girls as ‘prey’ or ‘the specimen’, flat-out says, “This stops the porn use and begins the specimen abuse”. There’s no ambiguity, he adds, except what he perceives to be an utterly disingenuous disclaimer at the beginning, indicating the multi-page document is “only a joke”. “These parties, and the values these young men are promoting, are no joke.” And he said parents who think they’re safe because their kids are affluent and from two-parent families had better think again. “It’s across the board, across all aspects of Castlegar society, all socio-economic groups,” he said. “These are kids who attend church and are members of youth groups, boy scouts, cadets. “It’s not just the kids you’d expect.” And he says the parties aren’t even the most sinister part – there’s an undercurrent of sexual deviance infecting young people in the Castlegar/Trail area beyond anything he’s ever seen. “I come from Winnipeg, the murder capital of Canada, and I’m far more sickened by what I’m seeing here.” He says girls as young as 14 and 15 are hitchhiking between Trail and Castlegar, giving grown men blow jobs in exchange for Happy Meals – and he’s actually heard men casually refer to this as “getting road head”. This, on top of several highly-publicized situations in which young men have been charged with everything from sexual assault to possession of child porn should, he thinks, serve as a massive wake-up call for local parents. “I’m sick and tired of people sitting with their ears covered and their eyes closed,” he said. “We need to talk about this – we need to blow the doors right off this, and start teaching our young people how wrong this is. We need to help our young men realize they don’t want this for their future wives, sisters, daughters. “Yeah, I’m furious. I’ve known about this for more than a year, and so have many others. Why is everyone remaining silent?” “Local men need to make a change by standing up to, and with, each other …not just refusing to participate, but actually opposing this and championing our women.”
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