RCMP have charged a former swim instructor at the Nova Scotia Youth Centre with 66 offences following a seven-year investigation into historical sexual assaults at the Waterville facility.

Donald Douglas (Doug) Williams, 75, was arrested at his home in Dartmouth on Saturday, RCMP announced Wednesday at a news conference.

Williams faces 32 counts of sexual exploitation, 28 counts of sexual assault, three counts of sexual assault causing bodily harm, and single counts of sexual interference, invitation to sexual touching and assault.

He was released by the courts on conditions and will appear in Kentville provincial court Sept. 26.

Williams was the youth centre’s swim instructor from 1988 to 2017. RCMP allege the offences were committed at the youth centre between 1989 and 2015 and invol

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