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| March 25, 1998 Interview Room - "B" Division Headquarters St. John's, Nfld. Statement to RCMP of: Byron David PRIOR (B: July 29/53) Of Reader's Hill Crescent, Manuels, Nfld. Phone: 709-834-9822 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Q5) Byron, you came in the other day and spoke of abuse by your mother, when did this first occur, that you can remember? A5) I think I was 4 or 5 years old, I know that it was before school. Q6) Could you describe what happened? A6) Initially, well the first time I remember she sat me down in the living room and she started to, she took down my pants, my underwear and she started playing with my privates. I just remember, Mark, that they had to take me to the hospital, I had to be circumcised, because all my privates was messed up. It was a doctor TREBLETT, a lady doctor, and I remember seeing, there was two ladies, I don't remember who the second lady was, it was nurse, probably either Nurse SQUIRES or Nurse RIGGS. And they were saying that I was quite old to be circumcised, but they had no choice, they had to do it. Q7) So before you were circumcised, is this the only time that your mother played with your penis? (Privates) A7) Yes. Q8) Can you remember any other specific times? A8) It was an ongoing thing, it kept going on even after I was circumcised, I got a break after I was circumcised. Sometimes I would come home after school, she'd take me in the living room, and tell me to sit down again. After awhile, she wouldn't just play with me, with my privates, she would take off her pants and sit on me. She always told me that if I wasn't a good boy she would put me in the trunk with Tommy. We had a big black trunk at the bottom of the stairs; it had a round top on it. Tommy was my older brother that died, and she said that's where he was. Tommy died when I was one year old. That kept up until basically I was 7 or 8 years old. I kept trying to keep away from her, I would take my dogs into the woods, but she kept killing my dogs. Q9) When you say she would play with your privates, what do you mean, do my mean your penis? A9) Yes sir, she would grab me all over first, then she would grab my penis and put it in her mouth and if she could get it either bit hard at all, she would sit on me. Q10) When she sat on you, did she have any clothes on? A10) She just pulled down her pants, she always had her top on, she usually wore nylon pants. I could always tell when it was coming, she would change, get mad at me for no reason, start to slap me around, and she would do that. She had to go to the Waterford a lot. She always had a lot of pills. I can remember taking knives at night and putting them under my bed, cause she was always gonna kill me. Q11) When she sat on top of you, did she attempt to have intercourse with you? A11) She always kept trying to put my penis inside, kept squirming around, and sometimes she would give me a slap. Sometimes when I came home from school, she would have some young fella around. Q12) Did this usually occur in the living room area of your house? A12) Living room, and sometimes upstairs, we had four bedrooms up there. Every time I got a bath, I got a bath once a week, she would keep messing with me, I hated to get a bath, I hated everything I guess. Q13) Do you know if any of your other family members seen or witnessed any of these incidents with your mother? A13) I don't know, she always tried to keep me in another room. Q14) So you say these incidents continued with your mother until you were 7 or 8 years old? A14) I didn't resist until I was 7 or 8 years old, cause I didn't know what to do really. After I was 7 or 8 years old, I used to run away dinner hours or after school, sometimes get into trouble. My mother would come herself or send somebody to come get me, and when I got home she would beat the hell out of me. Q15) Did she ever try and assault you after you were 7 or 8 years old? A15) She kept at it, but at that point I was fighting back, and all it got me was a damn good beating, with whatever was close to her, one time she cut me on the finger here (knuckle of left index finger) and another time she held my hands on the stove. She used to take me for drives in the car and park and try and get at me. She usually ended up getting what she wanted. It was basically just jerking me off and give me blow jobs. Q16) And these incidents of abuse with your mother, they continued until you were what age? A16) She kept getting at me sexually until I was about 14, by that time any time she tried to grab me or take me in her room, I'd just pull away from her, or give her a slap. I was big enough to fend her off. Q17) From any physical beatings, did you ever suffer any injuries? A17) Well, she broke my collarbone, and chopped my left finger with a knife, and many bloody noses. She burned my hands on the stove. The time she broke my collarbone, she had someone over, Jim BAKER, and I was stood in the doorway playing a trumpet. She wanted me to go out cause she had company over and I just wanted to stay where I was. She pushed me out the doorway and over the steps, I landed on my shoulder and broke my right collarbone. She left me there until she was done with her company, and then she came out and took me to the hospital. I was in Grade 2 or 3 in school. She cut my finger cause I had a knife and I put a couple of marks on her new cupboards, she took the knife and went like that and cut my finger there. I was about six, seven or eight years old. Between the time I was 4 and say 10, time for me is just spaghetti, the only way that I can remember times is by cars and that. Q18) Anything else in relation to you and your mother? A18) She kept trying to get at me when I was older, and when I pushed her away, sure, I was abusive but you would be too after all the years of abuse from her. She would call the cops and say that I was going to kill her. She would give me the car when I had my license, when she had company and tell me to get out, sometimes not to come back. I would leave and when she was done she would call the cops and say I had stolen the car. Q19) You mentioned the other day about a Mabel FRENCH, could you describe anything that happened between you and her? A19) That was, was about, between the ages of 6 and 8, my mother used to go to a small store about 4 miles out of town called Bennett’s Store. Alex BENNETT was his name, it was in Molliers, a cabin area. She’d go to that store, and go in the back room with some men, so she could get gas from them. So one time, she went in and left me with the kids in the car and she was longer than I was comfortable with. I went in and Mr. BENNETT grabbed my arm and stopped me and sung out to my mother that I was in the store. She came out and grabbed me and gave me a couple of slaps and hauled me to the car. So then after that when she went to visit that store again, she always brought me to Mable FRENCH’s cabin, it was about 1000 yards down from the store on the left. It was a narrow road thru the woods, about 100 yards on the right was Mabel FRENCH’s cabin, it was about a 20 by 20 cabin. There was one bedroom, and the rest was open. She had a day bed and kitchen table and chairs. The stove was right over on the right side of the cabin. There was an outhouse there too, that was the left of the cabin. She’d drop me off and Mabel would take me inside. Basically every time that she took me there Mabel FRENCH was drunk, she always acted like it and smelled like it. She brought me inside, she would be right nice to me, ask me if I wanted anything. She’d take me and sit me on the kitchen chair, next to the stove and tell me that I was a nice boy and this wasn’t going to hurt me at all. So she would take down my pants and she would play with my privates, well she would jerk me off actually, and she would play with me, try to get an erection, I guess. And then she would pull her slacks down and then she would sit on me and wiggle around and that. The first time that she did it, she got me all wet. So then she would clean all of the wet off of me, pulled my pants back up and told me to go outside and play. My mother would then come and pick me up and take me home. Q20) How many times did this happen with Mabel FRENCH? A20) Three times, actually, the second time there was a young girl there, around the same age as I was, her name was Linda BUNGAY. Mabel told her to go outside and play, that he wanted to talk to me for a while. She gave us both syrup and cookies, before she told her to go out and play. And then, she did the same thing to me as before, only this time she didn’t get me wet. I remember the chair. It was a big chair, chrome chair with yellow padding on the seat and back. She wasn’t pleased with me the second time, she never hit me or nothing, she just pulled her pants up and told me to go out and play. Q21) What about the third time? A21) The third time my mother called Mabel and asked her if she wanted to go up to the cabin. My mother took her to the cabin, left me there with her, and she went to the gas station. As before I had syrup and cookies while she had a drink and a smoke, and she sat me down in the chair, well she took my pants down and sat me in the chair, then she started playing with my privates and she sat on me a number of times, squirming around and that. I guess she wanted what I couldn’t give her. She told me that she was going to get a real man, she slapped me across the face, told me to go outside and wait for my mother. When my mother came, the two of them put me between them in the front seat of the car, and I can remember passing by the store and Mabel had her hand on one leg, and my mother had her hand on the other. They were telling me what a good boy I was. Q22) Is Mabel still living? A22) No, she’s dead now. She was from Grand Bank. Q23) As well the other day you mentioned about Bill PITTMAN, is there anything that happened between you and him when you were younger? A23) Yeh, I was pretty young, I would say between 5 and 10 years old. My dad’s boat came in from Sydney with a load of coal for Buffett’s Ltd., and they used to have two horses of their own, and they had a number of guys local that would also deliver coal. Now Bill PITTMAN had a horse and cart and he used to deliver coal from the boat around the town. When my dad came in I used to go down around the boat and the wharf to be close to him. I used to want to go for a ride on the horses and drive around the town and deliver the coal. One time, this particular day, Bill PITTMAN was telling me all day that he had spent all night with my mother and she was right excited cause she couldn’t get enough, and how she didn’t want him to leave the next morning, even though my father was coming home that morning. So after we were finished all day delivering coal, he had a barn behind his house, we parked the cart next to the barn and he unhooked the horse, put the horse in the back of the barn and tied him on in the back and he took his cock out and had a piss and then he took me by the hand and said come over here, and he stood me next to him and started jerking off and he undid my pants and had my zipper down and my dick in his hand, and when he was done, he done the same thing to me. While he was jerking me off, he still had his dick out. I must have been 8 or 10 years old then, cause when he was finished my dick stuck to my underwear. When he was finished, I pulled up my zipper and said I had to go home. During this I was petrified really. I went down thru the garden and jumped the fence and started walking along the brook to go home. I was walking along the edge of the brook, I was crying. My Aunt Grace PRIOR was out hanging clothes and she saw me crying. She asked me what was wrong and I said nothing. She said wait right there and she went and got me some cookies. Then I left and went home. Q24) You had mentioned before Byron about Bill PITTMAN being involved with your sisters? A24) He tried, well he did with three of them, two of them willingly, that was Suzanne and Joan, and he did with Donna, forcibly by him and he tried with Lucy but she just passed out and collapsed so my mother said to leave her alone. Q25) How old would you have been at this time? A25) Maybe 12, 13 years old, oh God maybe before then, when I was 10. They would, let’s see, they would have been 7, 8 and 9 or so, so I would have been 12 Q26) Did you actually witness any of these actions between Bill PITTMAN and your sisters? A26) Well it went on and on, maybe even up until I was 19 at least. I’d be sitting in the kitchen, around the table, and when she or one of the girls got his wallet from him, wanting money from him, well it started with just him and my mother out in the porch, the porch was off of the kitchen. Then my mother would get Suzanne and Joan to go out in the porch with him, she would grab them and put them out with Bill PITTMAN so she could go through his wallet. First she had to put them out there, but after awhile, they would jump up and go out in the porch with Bill on their own. Now my sister Donna, she had to be drug out, she wasn’t a willing participant at all. I remember hearing her screaming and that in the proch and crying. She was always put down by my mother cause she wasn’t a willing participant. Q27) Did you actually see anything going on between any of your sisters and Bill PITTMAN? A27) I never opened the door and looked out in the porch no, but I seen them where he would grab their breasts and crotch in the kitchen. Q28) As well, you mentioned about Lucy’s and Donna’s daughter having involvement with Bill PITTMAN? A28) No, it was just Donna’s daughter Betty Ann, she lived with my mother from the time she was 3 or 4 years old. I wasn’t living home then, but I just heard that she had been involved with Bill PITTMAN. Q29) As well Byron, you mentioned the other day about Phil NOSEWORTHY? A29) From 6 years old until I was 14 years old, Phil NOSEWORTHY and his sister Maude lived next door, and my mother used to make me go over there. I would come home from school and she would say that Uncle Phil, he wasn’t my uncle, wanted me to go over cause he had $10.00 for me for my mother. I would also go over cause my mother would make me help him stack wood or watch the hockey game. He used to jerk me off and give me blow jobs, every time I went over there, and he had his hands all over by butt. He wanted me to have anal sex with him but I wouldn’t. He’s dead now, if I could dig him up again I would. Q30) Is there anybody that may have witnessed any of these incidents between you and your mother, or you and Bill PITTMAN? A30) No, there was no one in the barn at that time with Bill PITTMAN, and she always made sure, my mother made sure there was no one around. She even gave me my own bedroom, and sometimes I would wake up and she would be messing with me, until I got some bolts and a chain on my door. Q31) Do you remember telling anyone about this abuse at the time? A13) I told my father about my mother smacking me around and messing around, fooling around on him. I never told him of the sexual abuse. I told my Uncle Max SNOOK, I kept telling him about her playing with my privates but he just told me I was crazy. I told him that she was beating me up all the time, he knew that, and he told me that he would get me out of there once he finished university, but he never did. I know he told my Uncle Charles SNOOK cause be came and told me what he’d do if I told the cops. I told my Uncle Don SNOOK, he was a Salvation Army Office, that my mother was playing with my privates and beating me up all the time, I was 12 years old then. He went and talked to her about it, told her what I said and asked her if it was true, and she said yeah. He said if you are doing it, some day he will get even with ya, and she said I don’t give a God damn what he does. He left then and went on and never came back there. When I kept telling my Uncle Max about it, he told my Uncle Charles about it, so he came down and asked me to go for a ride in the boat with him. I was pleased with that you know. I was just a young fella. We went out in the boat and out to the buoy in Grand Bank, ½ to a mile out. He shut off the motors, walked back and picked me up and held me over the side. He told me if I ever made trouble with his family, he’d drown me. He told me this cause I kept saying to Max that I was going to go to the cops. After that, I tried to kill myself, tried to overdose. She brought me in here to the waterford to see a Dr. CATCHUP, I don’t know how to spell it. She wanted him to keep me there but he wouldn’t, he wanted her to stay but she wouldn’t. I stayed in here with my Aunt Gladys after that. Q32) Is there anyone that may know of these incidents between your mother and you, or Bill PITTMAN and you? A32) There was a women that used to be friends with my mother, Em CALLAHAN, she used to work at the hospital and come to the house. After I had to go to the hospital that first time I never seen her again. I don’t know where she is now. I think she was from Grand Bank. Const. Jim Forsey, RCMP, Sydney and everyone in the town. Q33) Byron, can you describe the layout of your house as you remember? A33) It was two story, it had a built on porch, at first it had a built on porch at the back which was the main entrance for us. That was a porch that had a coal pen and wood stacked there, that porch led to the kitchen on the main floor as well there was a formal living room, hallway and closed off living room. Upstairs there was a bathroom and four bedrooms. My mother changed the house after, downstairs and up, probably when I was five years old or so, I was going to school then. Q34) Do you remember who your neighbours were while you lived there? A34) Yeah, across the street there was a little store, Belbin’s store, it was owned by Tom and Louie BELBIN, his wife. The house next to me across the road was Mrs. Thomas that was to the left of the store. To the left of our house was Phil and Maude NOSEWORTHY, directly on the right was Rub and Jenny PRICE. They had three sons, Burt, Bob and Lloyd. Directly behind my house was Earl BELBIN and his sister Rita. On the right behind me was a teacher Ms. Christine BRADLEY. Q35) Is there anything that you would like to add or change in this statement? (Read over 1501 hrs.) A35) No. More statements at RCMP, St. John’s, both written and on video tape. M.G. LONDON, Cst. Byron PRIOR March 25th., 1998 1511 hrs. If anyone wishes to have the complete police statement contact me at alltrue@nl.rogers.com or telephone 709-834-9822. If I cannot reply I have been arrested. Please contact our Prime Minister, Mr Stephen Harper, pm@pm.gc.ca , or our Premier, Mr Danny Williams, premier@gov.nl.ca , and tell them the Priors of Grand Bank NF require Justice immediately. Thank You for helping. END OF WEB SITE |
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