

The six were charged following a year-long investigation by Bridgewater police in response to complaints from school officials. That's a pleasing development for us." What happened "Now that we can simply direct our attention toward the penalty phase. "This is going to mean that we don't have to subject the victims in this matter to the court process, which can have a great amount of stress on them," said Peter Dostal. The Crown said he's pleased with the outcome, given two weeks had been set aside for a trial. The sixth teenager was not in Bridgewater provincial court on Wednesday to enter a plea, but his lawyer Geoff Franklin told CBC News his client intends to plead guilty. Five of the six young men accused of sharing intimate images of 20 local high school girls on Nova Scotia's South Shore have pleaded guilty, closing one of Canada's largest prosecutions involving children under a law that came into force two years ago.
