Sex offender released from Headingley Correctional Centre
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Law enforcement officials are warning the public a high-risk sex offender was released from Headingley Correctional Centre on Friday.
Jason Mark Bard, 35, was released from the jail after serving a sentence for breaching a recognizance. He’s expected to live in Winnipeg, said the Manitoba Integrated High Risk Sex Offender Unit, a joint force of Winnipeg Police Service and RCMP officers.
Officials say Bard has completed some sex offender treatment but is still considered a high risk to commit sexually violent crimes against women.
He was sentenced to five years in 2015 for sexual assault with a weapon, uttering threats, forcible confinement and overcoming resistance by choking, as well as theft. He sexually assaulted a woman, stopping only when two strangers came across the scene and helped the victim.
He has since served two sentences for violence committed while in Stony Mountain prison.
Upon his release Friday, Bard will be subject to a court order requiring him to reside at a specific address, report to probation officials, abstain from alcohol and drugs, abide by a 10 p.m. to 7 a.m. curfew and refrain from contacting his prior victims or their families.
