Interior Health's Chief Medical Health Officer Dr. Albert de Villiers
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August 25, 2022 - 1:38 PM
Interior Health's former chief medical health officer is now facing more charges related to sexually abusing children.
Dr. Albert Stefanus de Villiers has been charged with invitation to sexual touching, voyeurism and making sexually explicit material available to a child.
The charges were laid Aug. 23 in Grande Prairie, Alberta and are said to have happened between January 2017 and December 2019.
The 54-year-old doctor who lives in Kelowna has been charged with invitation to sexual touching, voyeurism and making sexually explicit material available to a child.
Grande Prairie RCMP Special Investigative Unit said in a media release that it began investigating in January following an additional report of sexual offences involving a child. Cpl. Patrick McPhee told iNFOnews.ca that a witness had come forward.
Dr. de Villiers had been Interior Health's chief medical health officer until he was arrested in Kelowna and charged in June 2021 with sexual assault and sexual interference. He started the position in August 2020.
Those assaults are said to have taken place near Grande Prairie between 2018 and 2020.
Dr. de Villiers is scheduled to stand trial on the original charges in January 2023, in Grand Prairie.
Previously he worked out of Grande Prairie as the lead medical health officer with Alberta’s north zone. Dr. de Villiers originally came to Canada from South Africa.
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