The previous chief medical well being officer for British Columbia’s Inside Well being Authority has been granted full parole from a sentence for sexually assaulting a boy.
Albert de Villiers served lower than two years of a 5-1/2-year jail sentence after being convicted in 2023 of sexual interference of the boy in Grand Prairie, Alta.
The Parole Board of Canada says in a call issued in April that de Villiers repeatedly sexually touched the younger male between 2018 and 2021, sharing pornographic movies to “groom” the sufferer.
The board’s ruling says de Villiers was granted day parole in October final yr, and has since begun rebuilding his relationship together with his spouse and sons, working together with his spouse’s on-line enterprise, the title of which is redacted from the choice.
The board says de Villiers, a prime public well being official in northern Alberta earlier than his transfer to B.C. in 2020, has a supportive community of household, pals and “religion neighborhood,” which included persevering with periods together with his rabbi.
The choice says de Villiers had no points whereas behind bars, and assessments decided him a really low threat to reoffend.
His parole circumstances prohibit him from accessing pornographic supplies, and from being in places the place folks below 16 are prone to be.
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The board dominated that de Villiers precipitated “critical hurt” to the sufferer.
“The impacts on the sufferer and your betrayal of belief and authority on him and his household can’t be overstated,” the choice says.
“With that stated, you don’t have any prior prison historical past and have in any other case lived a pro-social life with constructive household and a superb status locally.”
The board’s ruling says de Villiers had no prison historical past earlier than his 2021 arrest, however he confronted a separate cost of sexual assault in February 2023 that was later stayed and he was positioned below a peace bond.
Parole board choices should not posted publicly on the time they’re issued. The ruling was supplied to The Canadian Press upon request.
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