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Cynthia Fordman Of Ottawa, Ont. Repeatedly Made False Rape Charges Against Various Men One Of Them Jamie Nelson Had To Serve 3 Years Before He Was Released And Given A Apology.

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Greg Carr

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Jul 27, 2022, 2:20:30 PM7/27/22
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Cathy Fordham and Christine Thompson were both evil, man hating homosexuals aka ABOMINATIONS.

https://books.google.ca/books?id=Ump0DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA325&lpg=PA325&dq=cathy+fordham&source=bl&ots=LkbiDVq4Yd&sig=ACfU3U1vQrooy0RsumdJV9SibPzevllS3A&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjP-qivzJn5AhW4BzQIHf9_A2wQ6AF6BAgaEAM#v=onepage&q=cathy%20fordham&f=false Apparently all the lawsuits brought by Jamie Nelson he dropped after 3 years having run out of steam and money to pursue them.

Another exposed liar, Cathy Fordham of Ottawa, has left a trail of an estimated 55 complaints with the police, seven reportedly involving grievous claims of sexual assault. One man, Jamie Nelson, spent more than three years in prison before her lies were uncovered and he was acquitted. When Ms. Fordham was convicted two years ago of public mischief and given a paltry six- month sentence to be served in the community, she said she just wanted to "put it all behind her." But she didn't. The meagre penalty had no effect, so this month she'll be sentenced again in an Ottawa court, this time for uttering death threats against another man she had falsely accused. Perhaps now she'll get more than a slap on the wrist.
https://tanadineen.com/COLUMNIST/Columns/Perjury.htm

Notorious liar sent to jail | CBC News Loaded
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Notorious liar sent to jail

CBC News · Posted: Oct 25, 2002 4:07 PM ET | Last Updated: October 25, 2002
Ottawa's most notorious perjurer, Cathy Fordham, has been sentenced to six months in jail for uttering death threats against a former lover.

FROM AUG. 23, 2002 - 'Manipulative' woman convicted of uttering threats
The 32-year-old woman who has a long history of bringing false accusations of sexual assault, cried as the sentence was handed down — as she has cried in court so many times before. But the tears elicited little of the sympathy they did when she claimed to be a victim.

FROM JAN. 28, 2002 - Wrongfully convicted man files suit
Justice Romel Masse told Fordham that she is a manipulative person and a danger to society.

He said he had no reason to believe any of her claims of illness, which included skin cancer, a brain tumour and post-traumatic stress disorder.

Victim Steven Brown lost access to his three children, as well as his house and his job because of Fordham. He says she was so skilled, she was able to use the police and the courts as a weapon.

"They're not equipped to deal with a Cathy Fordham anywhere, because she's such a lying, manipulative person," said Brown. "If you have someone who's lying on the stand and manipulating the system, then they're very hard to identify."

Jamie Nelson was jailed three separate times on fabricated charges brought by Fordham, including rape, assault and stalking.

He spent 18 months in solitary confinement for refusing to undergo counselling as a sex offender. His son was taken by the Children's Aid Society and given up for adoption.

Nelson says that even though Fordham will serve a fraction of the time he did, seeing her sentenced restores some of his faith in the system.

"We just sat through a very difficult trial and we can see that when people tell the truth, then you get results, positive results," said Nelson.

Even though the victims are happy to see Fordham going to jail, they say the police and prosecutors have a lot to answer for.

The justice system grew so close to Fordham she was able to get funding to set up a halfway house to rehabilitate offenders.

Fordham still faces a civil suit brought by Nelson.

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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/notorious-liar-sent-to-jail-1.354482 What a douchebag Cathy Fordham is how evil and anti-social.


Tales of the wrongfully convicted
By Samantha Halyk- January 19, 2012539

Jamie Nelson was acquitted of a falsified crime after spending three years in prison. (Photo by: Rebecca Hay).
Two wrongly convicted prisoners, Jamie Nelson and Robert Baltovich, spoke in Southam Hall Jan. 14 about their unexpected stint in prison and how it was the nightmare of their lives.

“You got to fight for what you believe in and you got to fight for your innocence because sometimes in that environment no one else is going to fight for you,” Baltovich said.

“Wrongfully Convicted: Remembering Injustice” was hosted by the Wrongful Conviction and Injustice Association of Carleton (WCIAC) to show that anyone can be wrongfully convicted.

“It is a very overlooked area of the criminal justice system and we try to spread this to the Carleton community and the Ottawa community,” said WCIAC president Kelly Lauzon.

In the mid 1990s, Nelson said he and his ex-girlfriend Christine Thompson, who were living in Ottawa at the time, were in a custody battle over their son. Nelson speculated that Thompson and her friend Cathy Fordham realized that if Nelson was in prison, he couldn’t see their son.

In 1996, Fordham told police she was raped by Nelson. He was found guilty of a rape he didn’t commit and spent more than three years in prison.

“I was hijacked from my own life,” Nelson said.

In prison, Nelson said he found he was treated differently from the other inmates because he was convicted of rape — the worst kind of crime.

Nelson had to change himself dramatically in order to survive, he said.

“I had to be the guy who pushed back, I had to be the guy who didn’t give a shit. And I was never like that before,” Nelson said.

Eventually, Nelson’s lawyer and two others realized Fordham’s accusations were false, as all three lawyers were representing defendants who were accused of crimes against Fordham.

In 2001, the Ontario Court of Appeal overturned Nelson’s conviction.

“Not only did I not do it, no one did it. It was a complete fabrication,” Nelson said.

Baltovich, on the other hand, said faulty eyewitness accounts and undisclosed evidence were key elements in his wrongful conviction.

After the disappearance of his girlfriend Elizabeth Bain in 1990, Baltovich was convicted of first-degree murder in 1992. He received a life sentence in prison with no chance of parole for 17 years.

“My mother died while I was in prison five years later and she never got to see me released,” Baltovich said.

At a March 2000 bail hearing, new evidence was presented that suggested Baltovich was innocent. He was released on bail after serving eight years in prison.

The new evidence suggested that the infamous serial killer Paul Bernardo killed Bain. Baltovich said though he believes Bernardo is a likely suspect, he doesn’t like to point fingers because he knows too well what that feels like.

Bernardo was never charged or convicted with the disappearance of Bain.

Baltovich was wrongfully convicted because the police “immediately came to the conclusion that [he] committed the crime,” he said.

“I’m still not sure why and I kind of feel like I was treated unfairly,” he said.

In 1992, when Baltovich told a prison guard he was innocent, the guard laughed in his face. Then in 1997, he apologized to Baltovich, saying he now doesn’t know what to believe with so many wrongful convictions coming to light.

“I think we really need to give prosecutors and police better tools and take a step back,” Baltovich said.

As WCIAC president Lauzon said, wrongful convictions are “kind of the dirty little secrets of the justice system.”

“What happened to me could literally happen to anyone in this room,” Nelson said. “And it happens so fast.”

https://charlatan.ca/2012/01/19/tales-of-the-wrongfully-convicted/

Man acquitted of rape faces accuser
Cathy Fordham in court for uttering death threats
Don Campbell and Jake Rupert
The Ottawa Citizen

Jean Levac, The Ottawa Citizen
Lawyer Mitchell Rowe, left, escorts Cathy Fordham out of court yesterday. Jamie Nelson, the man she falsely accused, right rear, saw her for the first time since he was sent to prison in 1996.

The last time they were face-to-face in a courtroom five years ago, Jamie Nelson was on his way to prison for three years, and the woman who falsely accused him of rape, Cathy Fordham, walked out triumphantly.

The scene yesterday in Room 7 of the Elgin Street courthouse could not have been more different. This time, Ms. Fordham was the accused, and Mr. Nelson, fresh from an acquittal at the Ontario Court of Appeal, sat in the pews as a keen observer. He was only there because he wanted to be.

"I can't begin to tell you what it was like to be in a courtroom again," he said later. "I sat there trembling."

In 1996, Ms. Fordham, 30, testified that Mr. Nelson, 34, had raped her. In November of that year, Justice Hugh Fraser, basing his decision on her word, found Mr. Nelson guilty and sent him to prison.

Last week, the Ontario Court of Appeal overturned the conviction based on a mountain of new evidence suggesting Ms. Fordham's word was unreliable.

Yesterday, Ms. Fordham appeared in front of Judge Fraser facing her own charges. In May, she pleaded guilty to uttering death threats against a former boyfriend.

The plea was part of a deal that saw the Crown withdraw a charge of making a false police report in conjunction with another woman.

Two weeks ago, Ms. Fordham, through her previous lawyer, Marni Munsterman, told Judge Fraser she wanted to take back her guilty plea. In the meantime, Mr. Nelson's wrongful conviction became national news.

Yesterday, Ms. Munsterman told the judge she had to drop the case because her client was giving her instructions she couldn't follow.

Ms. Fordham's new lawyer, Mitchell Rowe, said his client still wanted to change her plea.

The Crown attorney then said they would reactivate the public mischief charge for making the false police complaint.

The judge accepted these motions, then informed the court that he would not hear the case any further.

"It has come to my attention in the last couple days that this individual appeared before me on another matter some five years ago," Judge Fraser said. He went on to say it would be inappropriate for him to continue hearing Ms. Fordham's case.

She will now appear in court on Friday to face the death threat and public mischief charges.

Ms. Fordham says she has new information that will exonerate her of any wrongdoing in any court proceeding.

"I am very confident that the new evidence that has been made available will not only clear me of any wrongdoing, but will also prove that Mr. Nelson's acquittal was unjust and unfounded," she said after her appearance.

She said the new evidence will be made public at her appeal of a previous public mischief conviction for laying a false complaint.

Ms. Fordham spent her time in the courtroom pressed against a wall, her face hidden, on the opposite side of the room from her detractors, who included her ex-boyfriend, Mr. Nelson and her former co-workers and clients at a the Vanier Community Support Centre.

Ms. Fordham ran the now defunct half way house for two years until she wrongfully accused two men of assaulting her. She was eventually charged with this and convicted after a trial last summer.

A police investigation determined her halfway house was a snake-pit of drugs, alcohol, sex and terror. She reined over it all with an iron fist making dozens of police reports on the men in her care.

After this investigation, rape charges against another man she'd accused were dropped at the request of the Crown.

Ottawa police are now investigating whether she should be charged in relation to her complaint and testimony against Mr. Nelson.

After her court appearance yesterday, she lingered in a witness room, hoping the hostile entourage would leave her alone.

When that failed, she and her lawyer had no choice but to walk a gauntlet through the courthouse and outside to where her mother was waiting in a car.

Ms. Fordham used a white wind-breaker to cover her head and didn't acknowledge any of the taunts from her detractors.

"How do you think it will feel on your first Christmas in prison?," said Mr. Nelson, who walked stride-for-stride with his accuser. "How do you think it will feel?"

Another begged her to take off the jacket she was covering her head in.

"C'mon Cathy, you're so beautiful, show us your face," he shouted sarcastically. "It's Casper. You look like Casper the ghost."

Outside, Mr. Rowe said his client would not discuss her situation and said the day had been difficult for her, and even more so knowing the presence of several of her enemies.

"I think she wants to have her day in court," said Mr. Rowe, who only became Ms. Fordham's lawyer late last week. "She has a right to a trial, and she will have a trial.

"She is very scared right now. She feels very vulnerable of other people. I don't think she is scared of justice. She is just scared."

The appearance represented Mr. Nelson's first time back in a courtroom with his accuser since Nov. 14, 1996 when he went off to jail for a crime he never committed.

Mr. Nelson said Judge Fraser made eye contact with him as he sat in the second row from the back, beside his father, and said he was touched by a simple nod from the Judge.

He also admitted he spent a sleepless night and restless morning, wondering if he could even muster the strength to even attend.

"We were standing by the locks at the Chateau Laurier and I was thinking about how nice it would be to spend the day on one of those boats," said Mr. Nelson. "I didn't go to sleep all night.

"Just seeing how quickly (Ms. Fordham) turned her head away. It didn't hide the shame. The shame is hers to carry."

Mr. Nelson said he was undecided if he would attend Ms. Fordham's trial. He is expected to launch a civil suit against the police and attorney general's office in the coming weeks.

http://www.fact.on.ca/news/news0108/oc010828.htm

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4371696/ Documentary about the case.

https://freshwaterbay.blogspot.com/2009/02/jamie-nelson-was-innocent-cathy-fordham.html More about the chronic, daily liar Cathy Fordham and more on the false charges of sexual assault she made against men.

Rape should be a death penalty crime false reports of rape should be a death penalty crime. I have heard of 5 years prison for perjury why were these two queer lowlifes not charged with perjury and convicted. ?This was not a one off.

Hope the children turned out more or less okay.

Loose Cannon

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* His refusal to participate in sexual deviancy counselling landed
him in solitary confinement for a total of 15 months *

Keep that im mind when you finally get caught and get your just
desserts.

All the links you posted and not one with a picture of the young lady.
If she's hot, she should be treated more lenient that an ugly bitch.

Greg Carr

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Aug 1, 2022, 1:32:36 PM8/1/22
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Well stupid "im" is not a word you are the person who lauds convicted pedophiles and rapists online not I. Also the man in the story Jamie Nelson was innocent of the charges and was given an apology by the prosecutor and judge.

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> All the links you posted and not one with a picture of the young lady.

You are a moron the event happened 20 years ago so the criminal would be over 45 now.

> If she's hot, she should be treated more lenient that an ugly bitch.

The fat wife you live with to pay the bills is a pig. Hope inflation puts you 2 on the street.
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