Sex-crime case halted after accused’s death
Court was scheduled to render decision Thursday in trial of 55-year-old Rusagonis man accused of sexually abusing two underage family members between 2012 and 2022
Complainants who testified against a Rusagonis man accused of sexually abusing them over the course of a decade will never know how the court was going to decide the case.
A 55-year-old Rusagonis man stood trial over the course of three days in November on serious sexual-offence charges dating back more than a decade.
The charges alleged crimes committed against two complainants who were under the age of 16 at the time.
There’s a court-ordered publication ban in effect protecting the identities of the complainants, and as the defendant was related to them, the Fredericton Independent isn’t naming him either so as to comply with the ban.