The convicted pedophile accused of abducting a 10-year-old Saskatchewan boy is now facing a charge of sexual assault.

 

 

It's a story that gripped the nation, stunned two prairie families, and is now getting worse.

35 year old Peter Whitmore made his first court appearance Thursday morning in Regina Provincial Court on a charge of child abduction after the terrifying story we first brought you Sunday night. That was when Saskatchewan’s first ever Amber Alert was sounded after a 10 year old Whitewood boy went missing from his home.

It wasn’t until Tuesday that our fears where confirmed. The boy was with a convicted pedophile near Kipling, just a short jog from the young boy’s hometown. The boy managed to escape harm and police were called in to the area where a standoff began. Whitmore was in an abandoned farmhouse with another missing boy, a 14 year old from Winnipeg.

10 hours later that young teen would emerge from the farmhouse unharmed and minutes later Whitmore would give himself up.

Thursday morning at 9:30, Whitmore was presented in court and was charged with two more offences relating to the disappearance of the Whitewood boy. One charge of forcible confinement and one charge of sexual assault causing bodily harm.

RCMP are still working with Crown Prosecutors to decided what other charges might apply but so far nothing in connection to the disappearance of the Manitoba boy.

 Whitmore has been remanded in custody until his next court appearance.

 And, the judge in the case has imposed a publication ban on the names of the two boys.