Former BTO member faces sex charges
One of the early members of Canadian rock band Bachman- Turner Overdrive had a sexual relationship with a girl between the age of 11 and 14, a B. C. judge was told this week.
“I felt the relationship was very sick,” Stacy Bohun, 24, recalled during court testimony in B. C. Supreme Court, where Tim Bachman is on trial for sexual assault, sexual interference of a person under 14, and sexual touching of a young person.
A ban on publication was imposed in 2010 on the name of Bachman to shield the identity of the complainant.
But the bans on both Bachman and Bohun were lifted Wednesday by Justice Neill Brown after an application by a reporter with The Canadian Press.
The request was for the ban to be lifted on Bachman’s name, but Bohun told the judge she didn’t mind being publicly identified.
The judge said usually the identities of sexual assault complainants are shielded to protect their privacy, but he lifted the ban on Bohun’s name at her request.
“I’m not afraid,” Bohun, now 24, said in an interview outside court after the judge’s ruling. “I want people to know it’s OK to talk about it.”
She said children cannot provide consent to having a sexual relationship with an adult.
“It took me a long time to realize that,” Bohun said outside court.
At the time of the alleged sexual abuse — from 2000 to 2004 — Bohun was a foster child living in Bachman’s home in the Fraser Valley.
She recalled having a troubled childhood. When she was a one- yearold, her three- year- old sister, Casey Bohun, vanished without a trace from the family home in Delta in August 1989.
Her mother, Barbara Bohun, took her own life in 2001 while Stacy was in foster care at the Bachman home. Bohun said she was put in foster care because she started “acting out” and her mother felt unable to cope.
Before the ban was lifted, Bohun told the court that her foster father, Bachman, would grope and caress her, but they never had sexual intercourse, she said.
She ended their four- year sexual relationship in 2004, when she was 14, when she ran away from the Bachman home, she said.
“I just remember being fed up and not being able to take it anymore,” the witness recalled.
She blamed herself for allowing it to happen and started taking drugs to help kill the painful memories, she testified.
Bohun went to police in 2009 and revealed her under- age sexual relationship with Bachman, she said. Bachman was charged in 2010. Cross- examined by Jack Harris, Bachman’s lawyer, Bohun admitted her drug use affected her memory.
The lawyer pointed out that when Bohun testified at Bachman’s preliminary hearing, she said she had “flashbacks” of what happened with Bachman.
The defence lawyer suggested she may have imagined or visualized a sexual relationship with Bachman, which she now believes are real memories.
“The drugs affected my memory but the memories are still there,” the witness replied.
“The drugs made it harder to remember the exact times.”
Bachman, 59, has been a Fraser Valley real estate agent for many years. Now white- haired, he came to court wearing a blue pinstriped suit.
He was an early member of BTO, along with his brother Randy Bachman, a founding member.