CHARLOTTETOWN – A Prince Edward Island junior high school teacher will be finishing the school year in jail after being charged with assault and sexual assault.
Sylvain Aritho Amfoubalela, 42, appeared in P.E.I. Supreme Court in Charlottetown on Tuesday.
A publication ban prevents the release of any information that could identify the victim.
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Amfoubalela is a social studies and French teacher at Birchwood Intermediate School in Charlottetown, but also worked at Ecole Evangeline in Wellington.
It was during his time at Ecole Evangeline that Amfoubalela was found guilty of assault after he allegedly slapped a male student on the behind, although that conviction was later quashed.
Amfoubalela, who is black and from the Congo, was later at the centre of a lengthy human rights complaint hearing after he alleged he wasn’t hired for a permanent teaching position at Ecole Evangeline because of his race.
The parties involved in the human rights complaint eventually settled.
Amfoubalela has not enter pleas to any of the charges and is expected to appear in court again on June 24.
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