WARNING: This article contains details of sexual abuse.
The nearby meetings of an alleged predator with the police 18 years ago are now in the center of a couple of lawsuits filed against the Terranova and Labrador government.
Two men claim that Tony Humby abused them sexually, and claim that the police and social workers knew that the man of San Juan was a predator.
The demands seek damage to the provincial government, which supervises both the Royal Police and the Department of Children, Seniors and Social Development.
“The plaintiff states that at least in 2007, the RNC was aware of Humby and his participation with young children,” both claim statements said.
Humby was finally arrested in April 2023. Now he faces positions related to the alleged exploitation and sexual abuse of 12 young people.
One of the men who demand the province is also a plaintiff in Humby’s criminal case. The other told CBC investigates that he refused to participate in police investigation.
The demands were filed by lawyer Stephen Barnes of Buckingham law in early March, and claims have not yet been tested in court.
Defense statements have not yet been submitted.
Humby faced accusation before the 2007 incident
Both men were passengers in Humby’s car on October 11, 2007, when the police arrested Humby around 3 in the morning in Blackhead Road on the outskirts of St. John’s.
One was 13 years old, while the other was 16 years old. As CBC previously investigated, a man remembered being drugged, while the other said he was drunk.
Both said Humby had been drinking and driving.
CBC investigates the documents of the search warrant obtained derived from the arrest of Humby 2023, which contains evidence that is not proven in court, showing that the police arrested him in 2007, but there is no indications that he has been accused of any crime.
That traffic stop came less than a month after Humby was accused of raping a 16 -year -old.
In that case, the plaintiff advanced to the police and took a violation kit in the hospital, according to the documents of the search warrant. Humby was interrogated by the police and let him go without charges.
Police interviewed at 13 years after the traffic stop in October. He told the Police that nothing happened, according to the documents of the search warrant. The police also spoke with the mother of the 16 -year -old passenger who is now demanding.
In claim statements, both men tell them that they were not told that Humby had been accused of sexual assault weeks before.
“However, the plaintiff states that the RNC did not warn him of the dangers he raises when he associated with Humby,” says an identical paragraph in both demands.
While none of the men was in the care of the child protection system at that time, their demands claim that the department had “direct knowledge of Tony Humby and that it was a sexual predator” and could not stop the alleged abuse.
Abuse covered years after the traffic stop, the demands allege
Both men say that Humby sexually abused them in the weeks, months and years after the traffic stop.
“He has been subjected to forced oral sex, anal sex and caressed by Tony Humby and other men associated with Humby. He states that he has been sexually drugged and assaulted while he is unconscious,” reads a claim statement.
“He states that he has been prepared, extorted, threatened, harassed and blackmail by Tony Humby and others associated with Humby.”
Humby’s neighbor and friend Bruce Escott was also accused in 2023.
Escott declared himself guilty of seven positions, including sexual assault and sexual interference, and received a 13 -year sentence.
In a statement of agreed events, Escott, a taxi driver, acknowledged that he worked in a concert with Humby to exploit and abuse vulnerable young people.
Humby declared himself innocent.
The delays continue in Humby’s criminal trial
Humby’s trial for 72 charges was scheduled to begin in March, but was thrown into the disorder after the defense received a document in a dissemination package that the crown says that it was not supposed to have.
Defensor lawyer Mark Gruchy said that this new evidence could help the case of his client, while the crown insisted that it was a privileged document that should not be able to see.
The real content of the document remains a mystery, since related audiences occurred behind closed doors.
Since then, Gruchy has submitted requests for more dissemination, which have put the trial in an undefined pause.
The case is scheduled to return to the Court for three weeks in May. It is not clear at this point if the crown and defense will be in a position to start calling witnesses to testify.
For any person who has been sexually attacked, there is support available through local support lines and services through the Final Violence Association of Canada database. If you are in immediate danger or fear for your safety or that of others around you, call 911.
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