Amanda Vaughan
Northern News Services
Published Friday, November 30, 2007

YELLOWKNIFE - A 15-year-old Yellowknife girl faces an assault charge on her mother after police were called to the family's home on Nov. 25.

"The father reported the incident (to the RCMP)," said Roxanne Dreilich of the Yellowknife detachment's community policing unit.

Dreilich said the father told police that the mother was not in need of emergency care during the call, however he had taken her to Stanton Hospital for treatment of unspecified injuries after notifying the police. Police investigators attended Stanton to take statements from the victim and the father. Dreilich said the girl may be charged with assault causing bodily harm.

Kids flee to neighbour's

Police were called to Sissons Court last Friday after receiving a call from a resident saying the neighbour's children fled to her house after their parents started to fight.

Dreilich said that the neighbour was known to the children, whose ages were unspecified in the reports at the time.

Police went to the family's residence around 5 p.m., where they found a 43-year-old male and a 38-year-old female had assaulted each other.

The parents, both facing charges of assault, were taken into custody, released with a court date, and given conditions to have no contact with each other.

Man bounced from library

A man is facing assault charges after an altercation which began when he was ejected from the Yellowknife Public Library on Nov. 19.

Library staff had asked a Centre Square Mall security officer to remove an intoxicated man from the premises. According to Dreilich, library staff then had to call the RCMP as the 46-year-old man assaulted the security officer as he was helping the man leave.

The man was detained until the police arrived, after which he was held in custody and released when sober, with orders to appear in court and have no contact with the victim.

Dreilich said the security guard was not injured in the incident.