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"When
her father was arrested, Tanya Olivares’s world “kind of crashed down”
on her and her sister, the beginning of an ordeal that played out for
them for nearly three decades. Olivares, 42, the oldest daughter
of Ivan Henry, was testifying Tuesday about the impact of her father’s
27 years of wrongful imprisonment on her life..........All
that changed in 1982, when she was nine years old. Henry was arrested
and charged with sex offences against eight Vancouver women. “From the
moment we learned he was arrested, our world kind of crashed down on
us,” said Olivares. In
1983, a jury convicted Henry and he was declared a dangerous offender
and jailed indefinitely. In 2009, he was released on bail after his case
was reviewed and in 2010 acquitted after spending 27 years behind bars.
Olivares,
a mother of two, told the judge that after Henry’s arrest, the
neighbourhood kids would not talk to her and her sister Kari. “So we
basically were kind of hiding out inside our house. We couldn’t do too
much.”.........She
did not share with her friends the fact that her father was in prison
and she had no idea where he was actually incarcerated. To stop the
questions, she told friends her dad was dead. “I quickly realized if I
said he was dead, that would end the questions. It was very easy that
way.” She
knew that the charges against her father were “horrific” but she said
she never believed them for a moment and started doing research and
reading on her own. She and her sister Kari started to really
fight for their dad and wanted to get him out of prison, and they
arranged for him to be transferred to a prison in B.C, where they could
visit him."
http://www.theprovince.com/news/Ivan+Henry+wrongful+conviction+destroyed+family+says+daughter/11332983/story.html