Overview
- Jagjit Singh, 51, admitted to criminal harassment in connection with repeated approaches to two teenage girls near a Sarnia high school in early September.
- He was initially charged with sexual interference and sexual assault after a Sept. 16 arrest, granted bail, and rearrested the same day when a new complaint surfaced.
- He received a sentence of nine days time served and three years’ probation that forbids contact with the victims, interaction with most minors, and proximity to schools, parks, pools, playgrounds, and community centres.
- Canada Border Services Agency officers were in court as a deportation order and a ban on re-entry were issued, with officials preparing to remove him from Canada.
- Victim impact statements described anxiety, a diminished sense of safety, and discomfort around older men, including men of Singh’s ethnicity, following the encounters.