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PSB says it connected Craswell incidents in P.E.I. schools only after his 1st arrest
P.E.I. Public Schools Branch director Tracy Beaulieu sat down with CBC News for an interview Tuesday for the first time since Matthew Alan Craswell pleaded guilty to sexual touching at Stratford's Glen Stewart Primary, as well as child pornography offences.
Holland College suspends children's camp counsellor as police investigate 'serious complaint'
Holland College says it has suspended a member of its children’s camp staff after it received a ‘serious complaint’ that is now being investigated by Charlottetown Police. Both Holland College and Charlottetown Police also confirmed the complaint to CBC News.
Substitute's touching kids at P.E.I. schools not believed to be sexual at the time, says PSB
Two incidents of a substitute teacher inappropriately touching students at different P.E.I. elementary schools "were believed to be non-sexual in nature" at the time, the province’s Public Schools Branch said in an email late Thursday evening.
Former P.E.I. substitute pleads guilty to child porn, sexual touching at a primary school
A man who worked as a substitute teacher on Prince Edward Island as recently as last year has pleaded guilty to charges related to child sex abuse images and an incident where he sexually touched a girl in a classroom in front of other students.
GEBIS and 1 Buddhist monk told to pay $110,000 after fatal workplace accident
The Great Enlightenment Buddhist Institute Society (GEBIS) and one of its monks will have to pay a total of $110,000 in fines following an occupational health and safety investigation into the death of a man on its Heatherdale Campus last summer.
P.E.I. Crown appealing 'demonstrably unfit' sexual assault sentence for jailed offender
The P.E.I. Crown Attorney’s Office is appealing the recent sentence of an Island man sent to jail for 14 months for sexually assaulting his former spouse on the grounds that the sentence was ‘demonstrably unfit.’
Man pleads not guilty to charges stemming from 2024 crash near Albany, P.E.I.
The charges against stem from a single-vehicle crash in Albany in August 2024 that left two young people dead. Dona Shaji, 23, was pronounced dead at the scene, while 24-year-old Jugal Kishore Mehta later died of his injuries.
P.E.I. man sentenced to spend 7 years in prison for incest apologizes to daughter
A Prince Edward Island man in his late 50s will spend the next seven years in a federal prison after pleading guilty to an incest charge after a sexual encounter with his own daughter resulted in the birth of a child.
Charlottetown man sentenced to 5 years for taking hostage during attempted jailbreak
Johnathan Joseph Trainor, 29, pleaded guilty to eight charges in January and was sentenced last week. All of the charges against him stemmed from incidents in the summer of 2024.
Strategic Holdings to pay $20K in fines as environmental charges against owner dropped
A judge has ordered Summerside development company Strategic Holdings Inc. to pay $20,000 in fines after the company entered two guilty pleas on environment charges.