Posted: Mar 10, 2021 7:46 AM AT | Last Updated: March 10
Aaron Crane, a noted Island fiddle player and music instructor, pleaded guilty to sexual interference involving a girl under the age of 16. (Brian Higgins/CBC)
Two Island arts groups and two of their executive members have filed their statements of defence in a civil lawsuit involving a teenage girl who was sexually abused.
The defence documents deny all the allegations made in the suit and allege the girls parents were negligent in failing to protect their child from the man who abused her.
Aaron Crane was sentenced to six years in prison in January after pleading guilty to sexual interference of a girl who was under 16 at the time.
Posted: Jan 22, 2021 5:00 PM AT | Last Updated: January 22
Stephen Paul Collings leaves P.E.I. Supreme Court Friday, following his sentencing hearing. He pleaded guilty to three counts of impaired driving causing bodily harm in September. (Steve Bruce/CBC)
One of the three passengers ejected from the car being driven by Stephen Paul Collings on Aug. 18, 2019, says her life will never be the same.
Collings sentencing hearing took place in P.E.I. Supreme Court Friday, a year and a half after the Kings County man crashed his car while driving impaired, then fled the scene, leaving his three injured passengers behind.
Posted: Jan 11, 2021 4:29 PM AT | Last Updated: January 11
Aaron Crane s court case was heard in P.E.I. Supreme Court.(Brian Higgins/CBC)
The family of the teenage victim of convicted sex offender Aaron Crane, 37, has launched a lawsuit against him, two Island arts organizations and two of their executive members.
The lawsuit, filed in P.E.I. Supreme Court, seeks $1.5 million from Crane, the P.E.I. Arts Guild, Anne and Gilbert Inc., Campbell Webster and Alanna Jankov.
Jankov is chief executive officer of the P.E.I. Arts Guild. Webster is identified in the lawsuit as executive producer of the musical production
Posted: Jan 06, 2021 5:06 PM AT | Last Updated: January 6
The judge will hand down his sentencing decision Feb. 5.(Brian Higgins/CBC)
The former director of a daycare centre who stole thousands of dollars from it, is asking a judge not to give her a criminal record.
Kimberley MacLeod, 45, of Breadalbane appeared for a sentencing hearing Wednesday in P.E.I. Supreme Court in Charlottetown, having already pleaded guilty to theft over $5,000 from the Hunter River Early Learning Centre.
Court heard MacLeod failed to deposit cash payments from parents into the centre s bank account, totalling $16,305.75.
Defence lawyer Conor Mullin told court Wednesday that MacLeod did not have the proper money skills to handle the centre s finances.