Man charged with running prostitution ring
According to police, a
Eugene man operated
in escort services and
hotels and brothels
By Jesse Sowa
Community Reporter
A Eugene man was indicted
Jan. 15 on 25 felony counts and
five misdemeanors related to
prostitution activities, a police
news release said.
According to the release, Ter
rence Jason Schehen, 20, is ac
cused of engaging in the act of
promoting prostitution and vie
timizing a juvenile over the past
few months.
The police investigation
showed that Schehen began
pimping a minor in February or
March of 1997 and that he con
tinued to pimp her through es
cort services in Lane and several
other counties throughout the
state for several months, police
said.
From approximately Septem
ber through December 1997, he
pimped an adult locally through
escort services, the news release
said, and he later pimped her in
brothels and hotels in Nevada.
Schehen was arrested !nn. 14
when detectives from the Lane
Interagency Enforcement Team
and Eugene Police Department
executed a search warrant at his
home. He was found to be in pos
session of merchandise pur
chased with a forged credit card.
Schehen did not resist arrest and
is currently in custody at the
Lane County jail.
Schehen is charged with 21
counts of promoting prostitution,
five for contributing to the sexual
delinquency of a minor, one for
compelling prostitution, one for
third-degree assault, one for ille
gally possessing a firearm and
one for forgery.
Schehen is one of the 18 peo
ple under investigation on suspi
cion of being pimps in the Cen
tral Lane County area over the
past year. Two of the three al
leged victims in this case are un
der the age of 18.
The case against Schehen was
aided largely by assistance from
young victims who chose to
come forward after hearing news
reports requesting help from oth
ers whom pimps have hurt.
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there, including learning to use
language, to use the toilet, to share
and begin to discover the magic of
books and explore art media,"
said child care coordinator Den
nis Reynolds. “For many kids the
Villard House was also the first
time with peers, and they learned
how to share and not hit or bite.”
In 1995, funds were allocated
for improvements on four houses
the Child Care Development Cen
ter used on the east side of cam
pus, Reynolds said. It would cost
an estimated $130,000 to bring
the Villard House up to commer
cial child-care facility standards
and rezoning codes.
“It was determined that it was
n't cost effective to allocate that
much money to serve so few
kids,” he said.
The children who used the
warm and cozy house, however,
had a place to go after it was gone.
After restructuring the age groups,
the EMU Child Care Center took
in eight of the 12 toddler slots
available. The program lost some
space, but it still manages, Wheel
er said.
“It’s really nice because it's
smaller and easier to supervise,”
she said. “We’ve managed to get
this really cozy.”
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Colorful murals decorate the walls of the former child care center.
The Spencer View Co-op Fami
ly and Vivian Olum Child Devel
opment centers also were places
for students and faculty to drop
off their kids for the day,
Reynolds said.
In the meantime, the Villard
House will be extensively reno
vated and will offer a student fam
ily a place to live and raise their
kids, possibly by spring term, said
Frank Gaddini, family housing
area director.
“The house is big enough that if
one parent goes to school, the oth
er can stay home and take care of
tiie kids and possibly work in the
home,” Gaddini said.
Renovations will begin by
bringing the plumbing and the
electricity in the 75-year-old
house up to code and replacing
some of the fixtures that have
been removed. The cost of reno
vating Villard House is not
known, he said, but funding will
come from University Housing’s
operations budget.
Despite extensive renovations,
some features of the child care
center will remain for incoming
renters, Gaddini said, including
the garage, which was once a large
playroom that featured ramps and
platforms, and the indoor sand
box.
“The family who gets to live
here will have a lot of fun with it,"
he said.
The kitchen that served break
fast and lunch to those in the
house and to other area child care
houses will be reverted back into
a “family-style” kitchen, Gaddini
said, A new family will enjoy the
large and spacious house and
make it a home of their own. But
many will miss the Villard House.
Teachers, assistants and students
will all remember it fondly, and
they all will have learned from it.
But the children will remember
most of all, Reynolds said.
“They ate there, napped there
and were comforted when they
fell down," he said. “It was full of
laughter, love and occasional
tears. It was home away from
home.”
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Review board proposal will go to voters
A Eugene committee’s
plan for a police review
agency would alter the
city charter if passed
By Tricia Duryee
Community Reporter
Eugene citizens will now have
to make a decision as to whether
they want to have an independent
party to which they may complain
about the police.
After four months of collabora
tion between more than a dozen
concerned citizens, a final propos
al was reached last night about an
external review board. After two
hours of debate, the committee de
cided to send the proposal to the
citizens of Eugene for a vote dur
ing the Nov. 3 general election.
The duties of the board, if voted
on by the public, would include
participating in investigations
when necessary, reviewing and
recommending investigations and
compiling an annual report re
garding the behavior and disci
pline of officers.
Instead of setting up a proposal
that would allow the city manager
to appoint the seven member
board, the committee decided to
attempt to change the city charter
to allow the City Council the au
thority to be involved in person
nel matters and policy implemen
tation.
Committee member Neil
Vansteenbergen didn’t know how
he felt at first. “I will share my am
bivalence. The independence is
very important to me — it is not
going to work well without that —
but we've worked with this a long
time and we could try [control un
der the city manager] for a year. ”
He continued, “I don’t know
what to do. I’m hesitant to send it
to the voters. I don’t think it is go
ing to pass.”
Elaine Green, who was the only
one who voted against trying to
amend the charter, said it was be
cause she felt the motion was still
affiliated with the June 1st inci
dent, where protesters were pep
per sprayed by police downtown.
As of now, the City Council is
not allowed to appoint a board to
examine internal or external com
plaints about the police depart
ment. Although some members of
the committee did find it a possi
bility that the charter amendment
may lose in the election, they de
cided in a 12 to one vote that it was
the only way to have a completely
independent review board.
“The costs and implications are
worth it,” said Ron Chase, a com
mittee member. “There’s a lot of
risk involved. I would just as soon
lose [the election] and get nothing
and start from the beginning.”
The proposal will be presented
to the City Council on February
11. The committee has not decid
ed whether to present other op
tions as well.
Committee member Ellen
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Public comment sessions for
the External Review Advisory
Committee:
■ Tuesday, Jan. 27
12:30-2:30 p.m. Sheldon
Community Center, 2445
Willakenzie Rd.
■Wednesday, Jan. 28
6-8:00 p.m. Whiteaker
Elementary School, 21 N. Grand
• Thursday, Jan. 29
6-8:00 p.m. Churchill High
School, 1850 Bailey Hill Rd.
Klowden was concerned whether
the police department would op
pose the charter amendment and
lobby against it.
Ken Saxon, a Eugene police offi
cer, said they won’t: “This com
munity is giving us mixed mes
sages. The reason I would like to
see it go to the vote is because we
truly want to reflect the values of
the community.”
The public will have an oppor
tunity to ask questions and give
their opinions next week.
If the plan fails, some commit
tee members still have ideas. “My
timeline is exactly the same. The
voters need an opportunity to ad
dress this issue, and if the answer
is no I will be disappointed, but I’ll
be back in five or six years with an
other plan,” said committee mem
ber Bill Young.
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