Former RCMP Officer, Robert Dowd, has been convicted of sexually assaulting a nine year-old girl after a retrial of the case.
Dowd was first convicted of sexual assault and sexual interference in provincial court in Ashern, Man. in 2017. However in 2020, three years later, a panel of three judges at the Manitoba Court of Appeal suppressed his conviction and ordered a retrial.
Dowd was accused of inappropriately touching the child while he was off duty at a campground in Ashern, in Manitoba’s Interlake region.
On Tuesday, the Judge said that he did not find Dowd’s testimony at his new trial to be credible as there were significant gaps in his recollection of the events of the night in question.
A sentencing hearing will be held at a later date.
