A 75-year-old former swim instructor is facing more than 60 charges associated with alleged sex crimes involving 30 young people over a 26-year period at a Nova Scotia corrections facility.
The Nova Scotia RCMP have laid 66 charges against Dartmouth resident Donald Douglas Williams following a multi-year investigation into alleged sexual assaults that occurred at the Nova Scotia Youth Centre, also known as Waterville, from 1989 to 2015. Williams was the facility’s swim instructor from the time the facility opened in 1988 to 2017.
Staff Sgt. Rob McCamon said Williams was arrested at his home on Sept. 13.
“Sexual assault investigations are often complex … and even more so when the time frame spans decades,” McCamon said during a Sept. 17 press conference….