After weighing the pros and cons we decided it was not in our best interest to accept the offer. Our reasons for nonacceptance are mainly for safety reasons as follows:
We would like to thank the Crown for their generous offer to accept a mutual peace bond between Mr. Young and myself in lieu of proceeding with the criminal charges against Mr. Young. We respectfully have to decline and we do so for the following reasons.
1. We do not feel that a peace bond will protect us from future criminal harassment by Mr. Young as Mr. Young has already demonstrated numerous times between September 1 and November 3, 2005 that he does not respond to admonishments by the local OPP, and if anything, tends to escalate his criminal harassment, vandalism and death threats. 2. We do not feel that a peace bond will be honoured by the Bancroft OPP in the near future as they have already demonstrated between the periods of September 1 through November 3, 2005 that they minimize criminal harassment, vandalism and death threats perpetrated by Mr. Young. 3. Between September 1 and November 3, 2005 the Bancroft OPP, in particular Officer Moore already displayed bias and inequality of applying the law by accepting unsubstantiated accusations, after the fact by Mr. Young. A peace bond would only serve to subject us to fear of more unsubstantiated accusations by Mr. Young and further arrest. 4. While having false charges declared against me is not a pleasant circumstance we feel that our safety is assured as long as charges are pending against Mr. Young; we do not have faith that the Bancroft OPP will take future threats by Mr. Young to ourselves, pets and property seriously but will continue, as they have already done in the past, to give Mr. Young preferential treatment by denying or delaying future charges against Mr. Young in the event he again escalates his criminal behaviours. 5. I can appreciate that while the logic of the Crown behind a peace bond is that they feel it may assure us peace during the sale of our house in our effort to get away from Mr. Young's criminal behaviours. It negates, that while moving may provide us with an element of safety, it also means we will be taking a substantial financial loss as the house was purchased as a short term investment of 5 years. This was money we needed to build a suitable place on the other property we own. Further we have already lost well over $3,000 in property damages in lost wages as a result of Mr. Young's criminal activities. 6. A peace bond would only serve to restrict our activities further as it has since the Bancroft OPP saw fit to arrest me for refusing to negotiate with Mr. Young last November. I currently do not go outside my house without my wife with me or her monitoring my activity when I go to the garage or yard as we are well aware that Mr. Young can accuse us of anything and charges will be pressed against me. For all practical purposes I am under house arrest and would continue to be so with a peace bond subject to the wims of Mr. Young and future false accusations. 7. And finally, we have not broken any laws. We believe that Mr. Young needs to be accountable for his criminal behaviors. Further a peace bond does not address the fact that I was illegally/unconstitutionally arrested and subsequently maliciously prosecuted. Respectfully, Andy Igor Efremov |