April 11, 2014 - 9:44 AM
WAINWRIGHT, Alta. - A former commanding officer of an Armed Forces base in Alberta has been demoted after being found guilty of sexual assault.
David Yurczyszyn (YER'-chih-sihn) will be down-ranked to captain from major and he we will also have his name listed on the national sex offender registry.
A military judge handed down the sentence at the end of a week-long court martial at the training base outside of Wainwright, southeast of Edmonton.
The judge found Yurczyszyn groped a woman while drunk at a party in Wainwright on Remembrance Day in 2012.
Yurczyszyn had argued he was picking a hair of the woman's sweater when he stumbled into her body.
In 2001, Yurczyszyn was charged but cleared in a sex tape scandal while a junior officer in Ontario.
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