Beverly Allard, a former youth worker with Alberta Child and Family Services, is on trial in Calgary on a charge of sexual exploitation. Allard is accused of having a years-long sexual relationship with a boy she met when he was 14.
A former youth worker convicted of having a years-long sexual relationship with a teenage boy in the 1990s spoke publicly for the first time since charges were laid, telling the judge she is not the person she was 35 years ago.Beverly Allard, a former youth worker with Alberta Child and Family Services, was convicted of sexual exploitation for having a sexual relationship with a boy she met when he was 14.
A.B. has a criminal history that was disclosed to defence, but Knisely argued he should have been told about the complainant's active charges of aggravated assault before the courts.Knisely also provided a timeline showing A.B.'s charges were stayed by the Crown three days after his testimony against Allard.But chief Crown prosecutor Peter Mackenzie provided a letter to the court explaining that A.B.'s charges were stayed because the Crown had no reasonable likelihood of conviction.
A.B., who is now 47 years old, testified during the trial, telling the court he developed a crush on Allard because she paid him extra attention and he was "just happy to have that closeness."Many of the details of the relationship between Allard and A.B. come from a 26-page handwritten statement Allard provided to police in 1998. At the time, she told a detective that A.B. was threatening her with violence and with disclosing their relationship to authorities.
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