I will be found not guilty: Bonnie McLachlan
Bonnie McLachlan, the Prince Albert woman accused of having a sexual relationship with one of her students during the 1990s, declared she’d be found not guilty during her testimony Wednesday.
McLachlan has been suspended by the Sask. Rivers school board and hasn’t been working as a teacher since her arrest for sexual exploitation-related charges. Her trial is now in its third day at the Prince Albert Queen’s Bench, and McLachlan was the afternoon’s only witness.
She faces allegations that she participated in a sexual relationship with one of her Grade 9 students while she was a teacher at Queen Mary school in 1993 to 1994.
When Crown prosecutor Jennifer Claxton-Viczko asked her if she would resume teaching depending on the outcome, McLachlan said, “I’m going to be found not guilty.”