Dr. Albert de Villiers has been sentenced to 5 1/2 years in custody in connection to the sexual abuse of a young boy.
The former medical officer of health for the Alberta Health Services Northzone learned of his fate Tuesday, after being convicted earlier this year of sexual assault and sexual interference between 2018 and 2020 when the boy was as young as seven years.
De Villiers is also charged with three more sex offences involving a child between January 2017 and December 2019. A trial is scheduled for August in Grande Prairie.
