Globe and Mail The Supreme Court of Canada will attempt to balance Islamic beliefs against the bedrock elements of a fair trial on Thursday in major clash of constitutional rights. At the centre of the case is a sexual assault…
CBC News Amitabh Chauhan, left, and Suganthan Kayilasanathan are charged with gang sexual assault and administering a noxious substance. Doctors accused of sex assault to stay in jail One of the doctors charged last week with drugging and sexually assaulting…
Pulat Yunusov There are man crimes. Take sexual assault, for example. I don’t have the stats but I will be really surprised if most people convicted of sexual assault weren’t men. For example, the Criminal Code has special rules making…
QUEBEC – A 55-year-old woman has been given a conditional sentence, to be served in the community, for sexually assaulting her teenage son. Marie-Jeanne Bedard, who lives in the suburbs of Quebec City, was handed a two-year sentence to be…
Bob Mitchell Staff Reporter Today they are young adults, but back in the early 1990s they were youngsters who had experienced unimaginable horror at the hands of a sadistic serial rapist. For an 8-year-old Kitchener boy, the terror took place…
The Canadian Press OTTAWA–A lawsuit accuses an exclusive Ottawa prep school of refusing to make a sexual assault complaint to police after a 16-year-old boy was allegedly attacked by fellow students during a Grade 11 trip to Boston. The suit,…
Peter Small Courts Bureau A rookie police officer has been acquitted of sexually assaulting a financial services worker he met online, but a judge warned him to make sure he correctly reads women in the future. "The next time a…
Jul 07, 2009 12:04 AM THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY – A Calgary judge has decided that federal legislation that prohibits conditional sentences for sexual assault offences should not be applied to a serial bum pincher. Provincial court Judge Anne…