Carol Mooring, president, Prince George Chapter, Gerontological Nurses Ass.of B.C. wrote a letter to the editor complaining because The Citizen showed pictures of the two occasions a senior citizen robbed banks in our city. She questions whether it would have been treated the same way if the crime had been committed by a 27 year old physically handicapped man. In my opinion the only difference would have been that that there would only have been one bank robbery, not the 2 robberies in such a short time span, because a 27 year old would been in jail. My sympathy goes to the trauma the senior citizen caused the bank employees. I am sure there were, at the least, threats uttered by said senior citizen or the alarm would not have been activated by the banks. A robbery was committed, the banks followed protocol, the RCMP followed protocol, the PG Citizen reported the news as it happened. What is it with the people of PG not wanting the Citizen to cover the local news with the reality of pictures? I believe the short fall of responsibility belongs to the nursing home and perhaps the Prince George Chapter of Gerontological Nurses Assoc. of BC should instate procedures that would prevent a 3rd identical crime.
Helen Haines
Prince George
