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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • THURSDAY, MAY 28, 2015
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A small portion of the East Sand Island cormorant colony can be seen from a bird blind.
Cull: Audubon Society of Portland has challenged the killing
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be killing birds on the island
through August. The goal is to
reduce the colony from about
14,000 breeding pairs to 5,600
pairs by 2018.
The Audubon Society of
Portland has challenged the
killing in a federal lawsuit that
argues the corps is ignoring the
biggest threat to salmon, hydro-
electric dams on the Colum-
bia. Conservation director Bob
Sallinger called on the corps
to allow independent observers
on the island so the public can
know how the killing is being
carried out, and to call off the
killing until the lawsuit has run
its course.
“The idea of turning the
largest cormorant colony in the
United States into as shooting
gallery and killing cormorants
on the nest is a low point in
terms of recent wildlife man-
agement efforts,” Sallinger said.
Winters said Wildlife Ser-
vices personnel are focusing on
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portions of the colony where
eggs have yet to hatch, so as
not to create a situation where
chicks are left without parents
to feed them. Numbers of how
many birds have been killed and
eggs oiled to prevent them from
hatching are to be posted on a
corps website on Thursdays
each week.
He added the corps has a
contract with people who are
verifying the culling is being
done in accordance with the en-
vironmental impact statement.
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Bill: There is no limit if there is DNA evidence
on Feb. 10, Prozanski
creased its statute of
said the review is not
limitations for rape
Sperou, 64, was pastor at a and other serious sex
a “smokescreen” to
Happy Valley church. He was crimes in 1989, when
head off legislative
convicted in connection with lawmakers
approval of a still-lon-
raised
only the youngest of the seven it from three to six
ger limit.
victims, who all chose to go on years. There is no lim-
“I feel we have to
the record. The statute of limita- it, however, if there is
go through a deliber-
tions barred his prosecution on DNA evidence avail-
ative process and en-
crimes involving the others, in- able.
sure that we are doing
cluding Watson.
right,” Prozanski said.
The current dead-
Sen. Floyd
Watson and others favored an line puts Oregon
Brenda Tracy, a
Prozanski
extension to 20 years — or even among the states with
1998 rape victim who
no limit.
the shortest periods, according to went public with her own story
“But it was not the statute the Rape, Abuse and Incest Na- in the Portland Tribune and other
of limitations that failed them,” tional Network. About 40 states media, talked about a previous
said Thomas Sermak, executive set it at 10 years or longer, and 28 rape that occurred when she was
director of Public Defender of of them have no limits.
9 and a third-grade student in Sa-
Marion County Inc., in opposing
lem.
Longer still?
the change. “The system failed
The perpetrator was the boy-
Sen. Floyd Prozanski, D-Eu- friend of a babysitter, but Tracy
them in other ways.”
The proposed 12-year limit gene, the Judiciary Committee said she told her mother about
ZRXOGDSSO\WRIRXU¿UVWGHJUHH chairman, described the 12- it only after her family moved
sex crimes: Rape, sodomy, un- year limit as a stopgap pending away.
lawful sexual penetration and sex a review of the limitations for
“I remember feeling my
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abuse.
The House bill mimics the he seeks a recommendation that once I told my mom what hap-
change that lawmakers made in lawmakers can be prepared to act pened,” Tracy told the senators.
2005, when victims of sex crimes on in the 2016 session.
It did — but when she report-
Challenged by Danielle Tu- ed it to police, nothing happened.
under age 18 have until age 30 to
dor, a 1989 rape victim who told
seek prosecution.
“At 12, I did not know what
Oregon most recently in- her story in the Portland Tribune the statute of limitations meant,”
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A double-
crested
cormorant
rests atop of
nest of eggs
in the colony
on East Sand
Island.
she said. “I only heard nothing
was going to be done. We all
pretended it didn’t happen and I
never spoke about it again until
recently.”
Tracy said she represented
only herself.
Tudor’s perpetrator was
Richard Troy Gillmore, who
was convicted in a different case
and has been in state prison since
1987. Tracy’s four perpetrators
were arrested but never indicted.
Gail Meyer, lobbyist for the
Oregon Criminal Defense Law-
yers Association, said several
lawyers from the group met with
Tracy and Tudor in an effort to
understand each other’s perspec-
tives.
“We just did not know how to
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whose group now opposes any
change.
“We see an unfortunate truth:
All allegations of sexual assault
do not look the same. Some sim-
ply are not true.”
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Group.
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