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Todays Toronto Sun:

Get tough with gangs of thugs

Vote for anti-crime campaign

Vicious gangs of home invaders who beat, rob and even rape victims are becoming all too common in the Toronto area. And with a Nov. 10 city election coming, it's more than high time that candidates paid more than lip service to the need to launch an all-out campaign against such crime.

For instance, at 12:50 a.m. Friday, three residents at an Etobicoke house shared by Humber College students were assaulted in a home invasion by four men armed with a handgun, a machete and a knife.

Police reported that one of the victims, a 20-year-old woman, was "taken into the bathroom and sexually assaulted."

She and a 22-year-old man were also duct taped while the invaders ransacked the house,

Later, a 19-year-old woman returned to the house from a Humber College party. The report stated she was "sexually assaulted, robbed of her bank card and a ring and forced to give her PIN numbers."

"She was grabbed, tied up, stripped and sexually assaulted by these pigs as well," was the way Toronto Police Det.-Sgt. Wilf Townley described the attack on the second woman.

TERSE REPORT

The terse police report added:

"Police are requesting the assistance of the public in identifying the following described persons in connection with this offense. Description of Suspect #1: Male, black, early 20s. 5-foot-10 to 5-foot-11, thin build. Suspect #2: Male, black with a light complexion, early 20s, 5-foot-7, 160 pounds. Suspect #3: Male, black, early 20s, 5-foot-10, medium build. Suspect #4: Male, black , 6-foot-2, slim build."

The gang, who wore masks and bandannas, fled with jewelry and the second woman's bank card.

"Even seasoned officers in this particular case are outraged and disgusted," commented Supt. Ron Taverner, unit commander of 23 Division.

Within the next 24 hours, three more home invasions took place in Toronto, along with a shooting at the CNE grounds.

One home invasion occurred Friday evening when four men armed with a handgun and a shotgun forced their way into a home at Scarlettwood Court and Eglinton Ave. W.

The victims were a man, woman and a 13-year-old boy. The man was pistol-whipped while the house was ransacked, with cash and a "CD blaster" stolen, stated the police report.

The report added: "Description of Suspect #1-#4: Male, black, 22 years."

In all cases, the perpetrators were still on the loose during the weekend.

But where and when does this kind of violence stop?

There was a time when a person's home in the Toronto area was his or her castle -- a safe refuge from the trials and tribulations of the outside world.

But today, with so little respect for law and order by these vicious gangs of thugs, this kind of thing -- muggings, rapes, robberies, break-ins and now home invasions -- are becoming all too common.

GROWTH INDUSTRY

The only people who are cheering -- besides the thugs -- are the mushrooming security firms busily installing burglar alarms and heavy-duty locks. It's a real growth industry.

Unfortunately, this increasingly threatening society we see unfolding before us just didn't happen by spontaneous combustion.

It has been encouraged during recent decades by such things as the actions of mostly federal Liberal governments and other vote-seeking politicians.

They've done it by such things as eliminating capital punishment for first-degree murder; making our country a haven for criminals due to a soft, wide-open immigration system; establishing weak, ineffectual laws for young offenders; and creating a Charter of Rights and Freedoms that's often used by criminals to beat the rap. The Charter also forced the scrapping of longstanding vagrancy laws -- allowing panhandlers and prostitutes to freely roam our streets.

Hopefully, in the upcoming city election voters will pay attention to those like mayoral candidate John Tory who promises to go all-out to fight crime. He has noted:

"Over the last 10 years in Toronto there were 209,688 homes broken into, 30,141 sexual assaults and 12,469 armed robberies. You can vote for more of the same or you can vote for a comprehensive plan to crack down on crime that includes hiring 400 more police officers for our streets to combat gangs, guns and drugs."