Civilian guard accused of sexually assaulting woman in Manitoba RCMP cell
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RCMP say a civilian contractor working as a guard at a detachment in northern Manitoba has been charged with sexually assaulting a woman while she was in a cell.
RCMP say a civilian contractor working as a guard at a detachment in northern Manitoba has been charged with sexually assaulting a woman while she was in a cell.
Mounties say the 39-year-old woman reported the alleged assault Sunday.
Police said Thursday that the woman had not been charged with any offences, but had been put in the cell overnight at the detachment in Little Grand Rapids, a fly-in community northeast of Winnipeg near the Ontario boundary.
RCMP said the guard is alleged to have entered the woman's cell, offered her alcohol and inappropriately touched her several times.
Donald James Fraser, 54, and is to appear in provincial court in Little Grand Rapids on July 27.
Fraser was an employee with the Corps of Commissionaires, a national not-for-profit security company.
RCMP detachments in Manitoba have a list of guards that are contracted through the organization. People on the list are contacted when needed and come in based on availability, Tara Seel, a media relations officer with Manitoba RCMP, said in an email.
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