Sex assault charges against a local monk have been stayed.
Assistant Crown Brian Pillon confirms charges against 38-year-old Then Phan of Essex County were stayed during a preliminary hearing earlier this month.
Back in August 2016, Phan was charged with two counts of sexual assault, two counts of sexual interference and one count of an indecent act.
Police began the investigation after the family of a child reported that a monk at the Khemara Buddhist Temple on Howard Avenue had allegedly sexually assaulted the child on multiple occasions when she was six years old.
The alleged incidents had taken place about two years prior at the temple.
Evidence from a preliminary hearing can not be released due to a publication ban.