(KINGSTON, ON) – The Ontario Provincial Police (OPP)-led Joint Forces Penitentiary Squad has laid charges after an assault at Bath Institution in Kingston.

On May 30, 2024, the Correctional Service of Canada contacted the Penitentiary Squad after an inmate reported being sexually assaulted the previous evening.

On August 12, 2024, as a result of the investigation, members of the Penitentiary Squad arrested inmate Kirk WILLIAMS, age 52, and charged him under the Criminal Code with:

Sexual assault – section 271
Assault causing bodily harm – section 267(c)
Assault – section 266
Uttering threats to cause death or bodily harm – section 264.1(1)(a)
The accused remains in the custody of the Correctional Service of Canada and is scheduled to appear before the Ontario Court of Justice in Napanee on September 19, 2024.

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