Ste. Anne teacher sex charges stayed by Crown
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Crown prosecutors have stayed charges against a Ste. Anne music teacher accused last year of sex crimes against a minor.
Jacques Normandeau, 44, was charged with sexual assault and sexual interference April 4, 2022.
He had worked as teacher at École Pointe-des-Chênes in Ste. Anne, about 40 kilometres southeast of Winnipeg, but was let go from the job after he was charged, local police said at the time.
On Sept. 22, provincial Crown prosecutors entered stays of proceedings for the two charges, court records show.
A stay means although the charges have not been formally withdrawn or dropped by the court, the prosecution is not proceeding.
Provincial spokespersons, asked to explain on behalf of the Manitoba Prosecutions Service why the charges were stayed, did not comment by end of day Friday.
Generally speaking, charges can be stayed after additional information and evidence comes before the court. The Crown could decide to reinstate charges within a year of the date the charges were stayed.
Pointe-des-Chênes, a K-12 school, is run by Division scolaire franco-manitobaine.
In a letter sent to the school community at the time, the division acknowledged the arrest of a teacher. The division sent a student services team to the school to support students and staff who may be affected, the superintendent said in the April 2022 message.
Normandeau had also worked as a teacher in Pembina Trails School Division from 2005 to 2016, a spokesman for the division in southwest Winnipeg confirmed at the time.
Normandeau is the second teacher accused of sex crimes whose charges were stayed by Manitoba prosecutors in September.
On March 4, Winnipeg police arrested then-32-year-old Jan Marcopined Laya, after they were contacted in October 2022 about alleged sex crimes against a teen girl who attended Acadia Junior High.
He was subsequently charged with six sex offences.
On Sept. 14, court records show, all of those charges were stayed.
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