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By Erika Rolling

RCMP

Former AHS North Zone top doctor facing more charges for sexual offences involving children

Aug 25, 2022 | 2:16 PM

The Grande Prairie Special Investigative Unit has laid additional charges on the former AHS North Zone top doctor, who was medical lead for over 16 years.

Following the initial investigation in 2021 of Albert de Villiers, RCMP received another report of more sexual offenses involving a child on January 14, 2022.

The alleged offenses were between January 2017 and December 2019 and the Grande Prairie Special Investigative Unit conducted the investigation with assistance from Olds RCMP.

52-year-old Albert de Villiers, who now resides in Kelowna, B.C., was charged on August 23, 2022, with:

• Invitation to sexual touching
• Voyeurism
• Make sexually explicit material available to a child

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de Villiers was released on multiple conditions following a judicial hearing, including not to be in the presence of any person under the age of 16 without supervision.

He is scheduled to be in Grande Prairie Provincial Court on September 12, 2022, for the January 2022 investigation.

A trial is scheduled to take place between January 10 and January 12, 2023, in Grande Prairie, and is also scheduled for a pre-trial conference set to begin on October 21, 2022 for the inital investigation in 2021.

de Villiers was the top doctor in the AHS North Zone from 2004 to July 2020, before moving onto the role of chief medical officer for B.C’s Interior Health for ten months from August 2020 until June of 2021.