An alderwoman from Alberta

	posted by Adam on Monday May 12, @03:31PM from the News dept.
	It's big post time, so brace yourselves: H. Vincent writes "This story was very big in canada An alderwoman from Alberta went on a trip to the States with some other councillors and went missing. She turned up in a Las Vegas hotel and "told Las Vegas police she had been kidnapped and sexually assaulted but refused a medical examination and wouldn't offer police any details." People thought she was dead and the police searched for her at the taxpayer's expense. It turns out she just had a fling and got caught so she told the usual lies. She has been charged but it will be interesting to so how "accountable" she will be held. One other thing is that she has children. For making them think that their mom had been kidnapped and maybe killed she should be punished. That is very cruel abuse to put a child through. I wish they would prevent her from contacting them." Andrew74 writes "Here is a story about a Lethbridge alderman who had a whole city fooled. She went missing and when found she claimed to have been raped and kidnapped. Under further investigation police found that she had made up the whole story and instead had run off with a married man. She cried lots after being caught in her lies and we should all feel sorry for her hairaising ordeal. She shouldn't resign from her post as alderman and just take leave so she can get better after all she went through. At least at the end some Lethbridge folk use there brains and see her for the horrible manipulator and embarresment she is. I'm unsure of how long the story will be here so read it while you can." Garth writes "Darlene Heatherington, a Lethbridge, Alberta alderwoman, vanished recently, turning up later in Las Vegas. She had a dramatic tale of abduction and rape. Under police questioning, however, her story fell to pieces, and she now claims she got tired of her life and ran off with a married man for a chance at a new life. This second story has yet to be substantiated. The police are quite unhappy with her, but there is no indication yet that she will face charges."

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Create biased laws, and people will abuse them. (Score:0) by Anonymous User on Monday May 12, @04:11PM EST (#1) When I caught my ex cheating on me and after I left her life for good (without hurting her or anything), the cops show up at my door the next day and arrest me for aggrivated domestic assault. I got locked up for over a week for having done nothing more than catching my ex cheating, and the DV system came down on me. This was done to satisfy my ex's guilt or something where she HAD to be the victim in the eyes of our friends/family, society at any cost...even at the expense of my innocence and freedom. Although my story is a bit different compared to the story here, the bottom line is women can use the "victim card" under any circumstance and the media, friends, everyone just take her word for it and the whole status of any transgression is changed. There has to be equal punishment for people that fake crimes. In otherwords, if you allege it, and it is later found out to be malicious and fabricated, that person should do the time the original crime carried with it. When is a precedent going to get set for this!?!?!! It is only fair.

Ha ha! (Score:1) by Dittohd on Monday May 12, @09:27PM EST (#2) (User #1075 Info) Thanks for a good chuckle. Stupid woman! I wonder what will happen to her and her job now. I looked up alderman in the dictionary and it gave councilman as a synonym. Is this correct for Canada? I doubt it will happen, but I'd sure like to see her get jail time plus have to reimburse for all wasted time and expense. Dittohd

Re:Ha ha! (Score:1) by Andrew74 on Monday May 12, @09:42PM EST (#4) (User #1224 Info) An alderman is a city counselor.

Any Mother Would Do This (Score:1) by Andrew74 on Monday May 12, @09:33PM EST (#3) (User #1224 Info) I submitted this link after the first one that is on the front page stopped working. You can take off the second submission. http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20 030510.cowent10/BNStory/International/ This is a really sick article it was put out on mother's day. To sum the article up it defends Dar's behaviour by saying if it wasn't for that horrible guilt feeling and the chance of getting caught almost every mother would do the same thing Dar did. We all know how hard the life of a successful alderman with a great husband can be. All women should rise up and have multiple affairs to make up for the difficult life of being a mother. My favourite sentence in this article is "Unfortunately, in the heat of the moment, Ms. Heatherington forgot about the cops.", oh how unfortunate that she got caught having an affair and lying to the people of her city and the police. If she had only got away with it. This is just a sick justification for the immoral behaviour of a public official. I had my wife read it and she beat me in the rush to email the author of the article it pissed her off so much.

Re:Any Mother Would Do This (Score:1) by Andrew74 on Monday May 12, @09:46PM EST (#5) (User #1224 Info) You might have to put the site address in twice for some reason the first time I put it in there is no article but the second time the article shows up.

Even Better (Score:1) by Andrew74 on Monday May 12, @09:57PM EST (#6) (User #1224 Info) Go to www.globeandmail.com, type dar heatherington in the search this site area. The article is named Flight is a Motherhood Issue. You can even read a comment from a women that is surrounded by "family who loves me and colleagues who respect me" yet still wants to slut around the world.

Re:Any Mother Would Do This (Score:2) by Thomas on Monday May 12, @10:01PM EST (#7) (User #280 Info) Here's that link.

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