Cases to Watch

Veteran junior hockey coach, Bernie Lynch, turned himself in to police in Alberta over the weekend.

In a press release issued Friday (April 30), Peel Police said that earlier this month investigators received information that in June 2009, a teacher's assistant from a Toronto-area high school, allegedly sexually exploited a 16-year-old victim within the Region of Peel.

Former Perth high school teacher Jeff Peters has pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting one of his students, and to the sexual exploitation of another student.

A Windsor teacher has been suspended by the region's Catholic school board after being charged in a child exploitation investigation.

Ottawa teacher, 57-year-old Rick Watkins, also known as Rick Despatie, of St. Matthew High School in Orleans faces sex assault charges in relation to young students.

Guelph police say 42-year-old Josh Ogburn AKA Josh Briscoe a former lacrosse executive has been charged with luring a child and sexual exploitation after investigators received a complaint that dates back 15 years. For more information, ...

York Regional Police say they have charged 47-year-old Lorne Rappaport of Pickering, a hockey coach in connection with a sexual assault against a teen girl he was coaching. For more information, please visit the Global News website.

Calgary Police Sex Crimes detectives identified six women who allege sexual misconduct by Gregory while they were students between the years of 1999 and 2005.

A Toronto judge also ruled that he abused his position of trust, culminating in the rape of one of his students.

Case also awaiting sentencing for sexually assaulting another woman in 2011.

Reuben Lazar was convicted of molesting a teenage boy in 2019 and served a 10-month sentence. At the time of Lazar’s arrest in 2016 he was a vice principal at Forest Heights Collegiate Institute. Lazar worked previously at W.T. Townshend Public School and MacGregor Public School. During the previous trial, more alleged victims came forward and police laid seven new charges against Lazar.

An Ontario judge has found that a school board is vicariously liable for sexual abuse of a student by a teacher.

Jeffrey Peters, a former teacher at St. John Catholic High School in Perth, was charged with four historic sexual assault charges and six charges of sexual exploitation, stemming from four complaints in November 2019. He was suspended at that time...

The Ontario College of Teachers is moving forward with a disciplinary hearing for a former St. Thomas vice principal whom they accuse of having a romantic relationship with a female student.  The professional misconduct allegations again...

Sweet is currently facing 10 counts of criminal negligence causing bodily harm and 10 counts of failing to provide the necessities of life. Sgt. Carolle Dionne, provincial media relations co-ordinator for the OPP, said his charges stemmed not because he fostered any children of his own but because he oversaw a Children’s Aid Society where several foster children were abused.

Defrocked Catholic priest Barry McGrory has been found guilty of sexually abusing two teenage boys in a church rectory during the early. “Mr. McGrory used his position as a parish priest,” the judge said, “to exploit vulnerable and naïve young men for his own sexual satisfaction.”

Lawsuit targets convicted sex offender Ron Léger, Catholic religious order and Archdiocese of St. Boniface

Paul Bruce Harper, 21, of Garden Hill First Nation, faces multiple counts of sexual assault, sexual interference, aggravated assault and assault. Three people have been charged with sexual, physical abuse of 17 children and there may be 150 victims

Former Sudbury teacher Damir Bulic has been sentenced to two years less a day for sexual crimes involving a student. He was found guilty of four counts of committing an indecent act in the presence of a person under 16 years old and one count of sexual invitation to a minor.

A former eastern Ontario priest, Deslauriers was  convicted more than three decades ago of abusing boys and  has again  been charged in another case of historical sexual abuse. Click here to read more on CBC News Network.