TheStar.com - Why did we shed fewer tears for slain = teen Rene?

From: Subject: TheStar.com - Why did we shed fewer tears for slain teen Rene? Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2004 21:47:04 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/related; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0000_01C41B57.88C14A10"; type="text/html" X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0000_01C41B57.88C14A10 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Location: http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_PrintFriendly&c=Article&cid=1081116611394&call_pageid=970599119419 TheStar.com - Why did we shed fewer tears for slain = teen Rene?

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Apr. 5, 2004. 01:00 AM

Why=20 did we shed fewer tears for slain teen Rene?

When you die,=20 and you're only 15, the pictures of your lifetime are compressed.

So here is Rene Charlebois as a giggling baby in diapers, = as a=20 sweet-faced toddler, as a youngster reading a book in bed, = splashing in a=20 pool, horsing around with his sisters and, of course, = freeze-framed in=20 formal school portraits.

There will never be a photograph of Rene in graduate gown = and=20 mortarboard, or driving a car for the first time, or celebrating = his 21st=20 birthday, or embracing the girl that he loves on their wedding = day, or any=20 other of the tender moments that parents visualize when a child is = born.

For Rene, it all ends here, in a suburban funeral home = chapel, the=20 images of his brutally truncated existence captured in these = family=20 snapshots, his remains sealed in a closed casket, his numb parents = accepting the condolences of kinfolk and neighbours and friends.

Mourners did not attend in their hundreds yesterday, on the = final=20 evening of visitation at the funeral home, in advance of today's = funeral=20 and internment. Those paying their respects were in the dozens. = But they=20 all knew Rene or knew his family and their grief was not = vicarious, it was=20 close to the bone.

Save for a palpable sense of loss =97 the reeling reality = of a=20 murdered child =97 the scene was muted and intimate, a great deal = different=20 from what had transpired only a day earlier at the memorial for = little=20 Cecilia Zhang, the child taken to a city's bosom through all the = long=20 months when no one knew if she were dead or alive, but everybody = hoping so=20 fervently for a miracle, that the 9-year-old would be returned = safe and=20 unharmed to her aching, traumatized parents.

It is understandable that strangers would be moved to = grieve in a=20 public and cathartic forum for Cecilia, that lively and = bright-eyed=20 youngster, to offer their symbolic support to her parents. The = girl had=20 become familiar to us, in a way, her face everywhere, her = blossoming=20 personality revealed in school essays. Comparatively little is = known of=20 Rene, a victim of "foul play'' though homicide investigators still = remain=20 curiously tight-lipped, providing few details since the = Mississauga=20 teenager's body was found March 19 in a public landfill site = northeast of=20 Orangeville, police reportedly responding to a tip. A further two = weeks=20 passed before Peel Region police announced his death.

Rene was dead before most of us knew he was missing.

For much of the period that Cecilia was missing, for three = months=20 of it anyway, Rene Charlebois was missing too. It is a failure of = the=20 media, and the police no less, that the mystery of Rene's = disappearance=20 was so little known, that no rewards were posted for information = about his=20 possible whereabouts, or his fate, no grid searches organized. = It's=20 unlikely the denouement would have been any different but we'll = never know=20 if a community put on the alert might have spotted clues, might = have been=20 more usefully vigilant, and this is even more retroactively = unfortunate,=20 given reports that Rene may have been sighted in the early days = after he=20 went missing Dec. 12.

Perhaps there are valid reasons for not portraying Rene's=20 disappearance with the same sense of urgency with which the = abduction of=20 Cecilia =97 snatched from her own home in the middle of the night = =97 was=20 presented. I don't believe that a missing 15-year-old boy is any = less=20 alarming than a 9-year-old girl. But with teenagers, there is = always the=20 more realistic possibility of youthful rebellion, of running away = from=20 home and surfacing somewhere down the road, unharmed.

Rene was dead = before most=20 of us knew he was missing

Yet this scenario = does not seem to=20 have fit for Rene, a quiet boy, an avid computer surfer. Certainly = the=20 prolonged absence must have raised some alarms for police, who = twice=20 issued media bulletins about Rene, but never, it seems, = aggressively put=20 his face before the public. And his mother, his sisters, their = extended=20 family, definitely did wonder why Rene's vanishing had not = garnered the=20 publicity afforded to other children who have gone missing in this = city.=20 Even when police confirmed that the remains found in that landfill = were=20 those of Rene Charlebois =97 and finally released this information = =97 the=20 story ran small and inside the GTA section of this newspaper. Only = with=20 the stunning revelation that a suspect in Rene's death had = committed=20 suicide in his jail cell last Friday did this mystery suddenly = leap onto=20 the front page.

Now, all of the elements surrounding Rene's disappearance = and his=20 death are horrifying indeed, beyond even the specific tragedy of = what=20 befell the teenager. There are two other young men out there, not = seen=20 since Nov. 12, their families equally perplexed and frightened. = Police,=20 chary with details, have indicated only that the disappearance of = Robert=20 Grewal, 22, and Giuseppe Manchisi, 20, might have been in someway=20 connected to Douglas Donald Moore, the sexual predator who killed = himself=20 on Friday: a "person of interest'' is how they characterized = Moore, in so=20 far as the disappearance of Grewal and Manchisi is concerned.

It is in the convergence of Rene's murder and Moore's = suicide =97=20 sources told the Star's Bob Mitchell he took his life only hours = after=20 being interrogated by Peel police =97 that the story, emerging = only=20 piecemeal, takes on a shuddering familiarity, reminding us of the = folly of=20 rehabilitation for sexual offenders.

Moore was clearly a walking menace.

He was chronically perverse, perhaps unable to stop = himself, but=20 unable to be stopped either by a system that kept putting him on = the=20 street. His sexual crimes stretch back nearly two decades.

What emerges from his history is that Moore liked boys, = both very=20 young and pubescent. His record shows that he became increasingly=20 aggressive and violent in his pursuit of his prey. When he was = arrested on=20 March 15, after Halton Region police broke down the door of his = Burlington=20 motel room, he was slapped with 11 charges involving sexual = assault on=20 young boys. More charges, involving other victims, were pending.

But there appears to be an accomplice in this sordid tale, = a person=20 =97 as sources have told Mitchell =97 seen driving the 1992 blue = Honda Civic=20 in which Manchisi and Grewal were traveling when they vanished.

It is all very worrisome. The mother of a teenager who was = sexually=20 assaulted in Mississauga by Moore in 1991 =97 while he was out on = statutory=20 release but wanted on a Canada-wide warrant =97 told the Star on = the weekend=20 that, upon his arrest for that crime, Moore was found carrying a = bag.

It contained condoms, Vaseline, and suckers.

Rosie DiManno usually appears Monday, Wednesday, = Friday and=20 Saturday.

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