Dentist who let officer extract teeth from N.L. inmate granted absolute discharge

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A dental surgeon who allowed a correctional officer to extract four teeth from a sedated inmate in central Newfoundland has been granted an absolute discharge.

A Supreme Court judge in central Newfoundland granted dental surgeon Dr. Louis Bourget, shown in Gander, N.L. on Tuesday, April 9, 2024, an absolute discharge after he pleaded guilty to assault for allowing a correctional officer to extract teeth from a sedated inmate. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sarah Smellie

He had told the court that he became lost in a teaching moment when he showed McDonald how to remove the teeth, and that he was struggling with the stresses of the COVID-19 pandemic at the time. Two women are facing charges after leaving three young children unsupervised in a parking lot for hours while they went to a casino in Pickering on Monday, Durham Regional Police say.Officials in Vaughan vowed Tuesday to crack down on illegal car rallies with steep fines as police released a video compilation of “dangerous” car rally incidents from the past few months.

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Two women are facing charges after leaving three young children unsupervised in a parking lot for hours while they went to a casino in Pickering on Monday, Durham Regional Police say.A pedestrian has been taken to hospital by air ambulance after a crash in Huron County. According to OPP, a person was struck by a semi truck on Highway 21, south of Bayfield.Emergency crews are on scene of a severed gas line in northeast London.

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