TRURO – Two days after receiving a conditional sentence for assaulting a woman, Robert Henry Desmond was charged for breaching his terms by failing to keep the peace and be of good behaviour.
Desmond, 49, is scheduled to appear in Nova Scotia Supreme Court before Justice Robert Wright on July 6 to answer to the charges.
Wright was the judge who presided over Desmond's jury trial, which ended June 7, on charges of sexual assault, sexual assault with a weapon, sexual assault causing bodily harm, assault, confinement and uttering a threat to cause death or bodily harm.
Desmond was acquitted of all the sexually related charges but found guilty of the latter three counts, for which he received a 12-month conditional sentence order ruling that he behave himself or face the consequences.
"You have a history of breaching conditions," Wright said at the time of sentencing. "Rest assured, if it happens here in respect to this conditional sentence order you very well could end up back in Burnside (the provincial penal institution)."
Desmond is also scheduled to appear in provincial court on July 28 on a charge of having contact with an individual whom he had been ordered not to. That alleged breach, also from June 9, relates to a probation order issued in May 2009.
