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Amber Alert suspect awaits sentencing

Feb 23, 2018 | 9:21 AM

There has been another adjournment in the court case following an Amber Alert.

Jarrod John Charles, 19, who kidnapped and assaulted a young girl last summer, had his attendance waived for Friday’s hearing at Prince Albert Provincial Court. Defence Lawyer Greg Chovin said the Gladue report, which was ordered last January to outline Charles’ personal background as an Indigenous offender, has not come back yet. Chovin said he hoped to have the report in his hands within the next two weeks.  

Charles pleaded guilty last January to charges of kidnapping and sexual assault; he continues to maintain his innocence on an aggravated sexual assault charge. A province-wide Amber Alert was triggered July 4, 2017 after an eight-year-old girl, who was playing at a school playground in Prince Albert, went missing. She was found five hours later, after walking onto an acreage outside the city.

Police said at the time of the girl’s disappearance that a man had been seen talking to her against a school wall, before he grabbed her, put her into the rear seat of his car and drove away.