A former Elmwood High School educational assistant has been found guilty of having a sexual relationship with a student in 2014.
Sheryl Dyck was arrested in January 2015 following her seven month relationship with the teenager she supervised.
Court heard the relationship began as a professional one as Dyck’s colleagues praised her teaching abilities.
According to the student’s testimony, Dyck began seeing the student outside of school and would smoke marijuana with him. Soon she was buying him alcohol and drugs, and even letting him drive her car.
Eventually the relationship turned sexual and court heard there were more than 100 encounters between the two.
The boy’s family found out about the relationship in October 2014 and approached school officials, before Dyck was suspended and arrested.
Dyck denied the accusations during her testimony, claiming the student made the entire story up because she was in a position of authority and the two didn’t get along in the classroom. She said he wanted to get rid of her.
In his decision, Court of Queen’s Bench Justice Richard Saull said it was hard to believe that the teenager and two eye witnesses “concocted this diabolical scheme.”
“That simply makes no sense at all,” Saull said.
Dyck will remain free on bail until she is sentenced later this year.
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