Guy Quenneville
Northern News Services
Wednesday, July 11, 2007

YELLOWKNIFE - Convicted child molester Charles McGee may be out of jail, but his legal troubles are not yet over.

Const. Wayne Bent of the RCMP has applied to Territorial Court for a peace bond to prevent McGee from being near children under the age of 14.

"The police have found reasonable grounds to lay an (application) seeking a peace bond," said Andy Ing of the RCMP's general investigation unit.

McGee is slated to appear in territorial court on July 31.

According to McGee's defense attorney, Robert Davidson, one of two things will happen during the appearance: a hearing on the peace bond will take place, or it will be adjourned to a later date.

"The judge makes the decision as to whether or not there should be a peace bond," Davidson said of the hearing.

According to court documents, "Const. Bent of the (General Investigation Section) feels that Charles McGee will commit an offence... in respect of a person under the age of 14 years in that (McGee) has current sexual fantasies about prepubescent children."

Such court orders normally prohibit the defendant from entering public parks, swimming pools, day cares, playgrounds, community centres or anywhere else that children are usually present.

The maximum length of such a court order is 12 months.

McGee spent a year under house arrest, followed by six months under curfew and six months under a court order after being convicted in 2004 of two counts of indecent assault.

McGee was sentenced last October to nine months in jail for sexually abusing an eight year-old girl - a guest in his home - in the early 1980s.

He was released from jail in either March or April, having served five or six months, according to Davidson.

Davidson said McGee could have received a statutory release requiring him to serve only two-thirds of his nine-month sentence, which is not uncommon.