As it is an active police investigation, we’ve agreed to withhold details of that investigation until charges are laid or the investigation is ended.īut we can tell you that police believe that there could be dozens of other victims, and that the alleged victims identified so far were aged eight to 15 years old at the time of the abuse.Ĭlick here to read “Halifax man suspected of sexually abusing dozens of boys in the 1980s and 1990s.” The Halifax Examiner learned of Project Apollo earlier this year.
The other charges were either dropped entirely or withdrawn when police began to understand the scope of the allegations and formed an investigative team called “Project Apollo” to more fully investigate them. He’s been sentenced for three of those charges - two sexual assaults and the indecent act, for which he received a conditional sentence of house arrest that expires on October 20, 2017. Through the years, McNutt has faced 15 charges - six for sexual assault, five for sexual exploitation, two for gross indecency, and one each for invitation to sexual touching and an indecent act. After that conviction, McNutt was employed for seven years at the KFC on Spring Garden Road, working his way up to a supervisor position. McNutt continued as a substitute teacher until 1994, when he pleaded guilty of sexually assaulting a male student in 1987. He also coached hockey, baseball, and football teams. Joseph’s–Alexander MacKay and Westmount schools in north end Halifax, and possibly also at Graham Creighton Junior High School in Cherrybrook. He then briefly left teaching to work at a Wendy’s restaurant, but within a year or two returned as a substitute teacher at St.
In the 1970s and 1980s he was a math and science teacher at Sir Robert Borden Junior High in Dartmouth. Michael Patrick McNutt, 64, lives in Halifax’s north end. Another two alleged victims have already filed suit against the man, and an active police investigation is looking at the possibility he abused dozens of boys. Photo courtesy Metro HalifaxĪ Halifax man who has been convicted of sexually abusing three boys was sued Tuesday by three other men who say they were also his victims.
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