Sex offender no-show for trial
Arrest warrant issued for Joshua Robert Gorman, 39, of Fredericton, who’s also awaiting sentencing for earlier sexual offences of which he was convicted after trial earlier this year
A Fredericton man who’s supposed to be sentenced next week for sex crimes against a minor didn’t attend court Wednesday for his trial on another set of similar allegations involving another complainant.
Joshua Robert Gorman, 39, of Dora Drive, was scheduled to stand trial Wednesday and Friday in Fredericton provincial court on charges of sexual assault and sexual interference, alleged to have involved an underage complainant in Fredericton on April 15, 2023.
He was also supposed to stand trial this week on an April 23, 2023, count of breaching a police undertaking prohibiting him from having contact with the complainant.
There’s a court-ordered publication ban in effect protecting the identity of the minor in question.