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A man has been placed on probation for an unusual assault.
Licking a young girl on her neck during a game of hide-and-seek was in bad taste, the Crown attorney suggests.
“(It’s) certainly inappropriate behaviour to be licking a 10-year-old,” Crown attorney Grant Hughes remarked in court on Monday as Steven Andrew McCurry, 24, pleaded guilty to assault.
McCurry was playing hide-and-seek with a group of about eight children at Sprucewoods Mobile Home Park on July 29, 2011.
Defence lawyer Philip Sieklicki said McCurry was friends with a number of people at the mobile home park and had befriended a number of area children.
The kids referred to McCurry as “uncle” and he would play games with him from time to time, Sieklicki said.
Hughes said that during a game of hide-and-seek on the day in question, McCurry pushed a 10-year-old girl against a trailer and licked her on the neck.
Other children were there at the time, and another girl told police that the victim had screamed, told her what happened and said she was “grossed out.”
The girl and her father reported the incident to RCMP a couple of days later.
In court, Sieklicki supplied an explanation which was admittedly “odd.”
He said the victim, similar in stature to McCurry despite her young age, had pushed McCurry and challenged him to a fight.
To get her away, McCurry licked her on the neck. McCurry said it was something his father used to do when they’d get into a confrontation.
“It probably wasn’t the smartest thing to do,” McCurry admitted to court.
“Not probably — for sure,” responded Judge Herbert Lawrence Allen, who sentenced McCurry to probation in the form of a nine-month suspended sentence.
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Republished from the Brandon Sun print edition August 15, 2012
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A man has been placed on probation for an unusual assault.
Licking a young girl on her neck during a game of hide-and-seek was in bad taste, the Crown attorney suggests.
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A man has been placed on probation for an unusual assault.
Licking a young girl on her neck during a game of hide-and-seek was in bad taste, the Crown attorney suggests.
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