A former Chief Medical Officer for Interior Health has been found guilty of sexually assaulting a young boy in Alberta.
After 16 years as a medical officer in Alberta, Dr Albert de Villiers moved to Kelowna to take on the health authority’s top role in 2020.
He was still serving in that role in June of 2021, when he was arrested on accusations of repeated sexual offences against a friend’s child.
Alberta Bench Justice Shaina Leonard has now found de Villers guilty of one count of sexual interference, and one of sexual assault.
In her decision, Leonard found that de Villiers had sexually touched the boy up to 8 times from 2018 to 2020, when he was between 7 and 10 years old.
De Villiers must still be sentenced, and still faces additional unrelated charges of sexual touching, voyeurism, and making explicit material available to a child.
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