Sex offender admits to 4 registration breaches
David John Nolais, 62, of Sheffield, to be sentenced in April for violations; he's to trial in spring on summary sex-assault charge alleged to have occurred Jan. 1, 2023, in Oromocto
A Sheffield man admitted Friday he violated a court order requiring him to register as a sex offender four times within the last two years.
David John Nolais, 62, of Route 105, was in Fredericton provincial court Friday regading four alleged violations of the Sex Offender Information Registration Act (SOIRA) by failing to notify the registration site within 7 days after a change in his employment.
Last year, Nolais had pleaded not guilty to the following SOITA charges:
providing a registration officer with false information Jan. 7, 2022, about where he was living;
to failing to report a change of address to the registry within seven days of moving July 8, 2022;
again providing false details about where he was living Nov. 18, 2022;
and failing to report a change in employment - namely that he got a job working at Tim Hortons on Restigouche Road in Oromocto - on Dec. 6, 2022.
The offender had been scheduled to stand trial on those four charges Jan. 16, but on Friday, he changed his pleas to guilty on those counts.
Judge Natalie LeBlanc scheduled his sentencing hearing for those crimes for April 4.
Nolais also pleaded not guilty last year to Jan. 1, 2023, summary count of sexual assault on a complainant whose identity is protected by court-ordered publication ban.
He maintained that plea Friday on that charge, and his trial remains scheduled for April 24.
The 10-year SOIRA order to which Nolais is subject was imposed in 2015 after he was convicted of soliciting a teenage boy for sex, and he served a short jail term for that crime as well.
Court heard in 2015 that Nolais picked up a 16-year-old boy as a fare while working as a cab driver in Fredericton on March 21, 2009.
When chatting with the teenager on the ride, court heard, Nolais asked about the boy’s sexuality and propositioned him, offering the minor cash and a free cab ride in exchange for sex.
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