Police can’t say why investigators chose to keep sexual assault charges against a man confidential.
Jeff Paxton was arrested Monday with sexual assault for incidents involving young boys between 1983 and 2004. Police laid four charges on Paxton, who was a camp counselor at Round Lake Bible Camp when the alleged incidents occurred.
But police charged him with an additional six counts last year.
“That would have been based on a strategy of the investigators at the time,” deputy chief Andy Hay said Wednesday about the decision to not publicly announce those charges.
“That would be based on the evidence and I can’t comment at this time.”
Paxton was originally investigated in 1997 but no charges were laid. He doesn’t have a criminal record. Hay said some of the information from that initial investigation rekindled the 2011 investigation that led to the charges.
“I am happy that we have got this gentleman before the court,” Hay said.
A crime scene unit truck and several detectives were at a McBean Street home, located next to a baseball diamond near Hartland Street, Wednesday afternoon that neighbours say belonged to Paxton.
He remains in custody and will appear in court for a bail hearing Friday.
