August 26, 1984 Newsroom 985-2131 Classified 986-6222 Circulation 986-1337 Price 25¢

are
s, builders, and others’ ‘on hand.

18 month
probation

FORMER HAND-
SWORTH Secondary
school teacher Camp-
bell Colin Dagg was
handed ai suspended
sentence and placed on
probation for 18 mon-
ths Thursday after
pleading guilty to com-
mitting acts of gross
indecency.

JOANNE MacDONALD

And 18-year-old Jeffery
Lyth, the youth involved in
the case, is upset at the
sentence.

‘*He shouldn't be allowed
to plead guilty to a charge
like that. There should have
been a trial,’’ said Lyth.

Dagg, arrested May 11,
for committing acts of gross
indecency between Aug. 15,
1981, and July 31, 1982,
orginally selected to be tried
by a judge and jury at his
first court appearance on
June 27

But on Aug 15, Dagg
went back to court, te
elected to be tried by a mag
istrate and pleaded guilty to
the charge

A stay of proceedings was
issued for a second charge,
in which Dagey was accused
of committing acts Of gross
indecency with two youths
between August 14, 19k
and March 30, 1982

The acts involved were

physical advances, inchudiny
kisses

In passing sentence
Phoursday, Judge ae)
Layton said prosecutor Don
Celle properly drew atten
bon Co the fact that Dapp
had committed a breach of
trustin his position as teach
cr, saying the situation o aus
ed “a terrible shock ta the
community and the school

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