Former medical officer of health in Alberta to be sentenced for child sex assault in June
At the time that the crimes were committed, between June 15, 2018, and July 31, 2020, he was a medical officer of health for AHS and living in Grande Prairie. He moved to Kelowna, where he was the top medical doctor at Interior Health, a year later and it was there he was arrested on the aforementioned charges.Over the course of the three-day trial, Justice Leonard heard evidence from the boy who de Villiers assaulted, his parents, a police officer and de Villiers himself.
The boy said he and his sibling had spent the night at de Villiers’ home together a couple of times and he had stayed there alone four or five times. In video testimony recorded in 2021, when the allegations were made to police, the boy said that on more than one occasion, on his solo sleepover, he was shown nudity on a tablet. He said he’d been asked to touch de Villiers sexually and he also was touched sexually.
The boy’s father testified that when he found out about what had been happening in May 2021, he immediately reported what he heard to the RCMP and cut off contact with de Villiers, who had since moved to the Okanagan where he worked for Interior Health. De Villiers is still in Kelowna and has surrendered his passport and is not permitted to have one until he’s sentenced.De Villiers is facing separate child sex charges for allegations said to have occurred between January 2017 and December 2019 in Alberta. He’s scheduled to face trial on those charges in August.
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