Crown stays sex-crime charges against former Collège Béliveau gym teacher
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Prosecutors have stayed sex-crime charges against a former Louis Riel School Division gym teacher.
Amanda Rachelle Sherrett, 41, of Winnipeg, was charged in April with sexual assault, sexual exploitation and luring a person under 18 years of age by means of telecommunication.
The charges were laid following an investigation into allegations Sherrett, a former phys-ed teacher at Collège Béliveau had a sexually exploitative relationship with a teenage former student.
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Collège Béliveau in Windsor Park.
Court records show all charges were stayed by the Crown on June 25; the reason was not immediately clear Friday.
The Winnipeg Police Service alleged at the time that the student, a teen girl, was groomed into a sexual relationship that included inappropriate physical contact on school trips. Police alleged the contact continued after the student left the grades 7-12 school in Windsor Park.
Police alleged the offences occurred between March 1, 2022 and April 5, 2023.
The Louis Riel School Division said in April that Sherrett had been removed from the workplace following the allegations.
It is not the first time allegations of sexual misconduct levied against Manitoba teachers did not end up proceeding in court.
A former Grant Park High School teacher was accused of sexually assaulting three students in 2019 and 2020.
The charges against her were stayed in 2021 after she agreed to surrender her teaching certificate and voluntarily place herself on the provincial child-abuse registry.
In 2022, a teacher and rugby coach in Steinbach was accused of sexually assaulting three female students. Charges against him were stayed last winter.
Charges were also stayed against a Winnipeg junior high school substitute teacher in 2023 after allegations of sexual assault and luring.
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