WARNING: This story contains details of the sexual touching of a child.

A 28-year-old charged after a child was grabbed in a St. Vital elementary school bathroom this week has an "unenviable" criminal record that includes groping a child, and breached his conditions as a registered sex offender by wandering through a high school earlier this year.

Scott William George has been charged with assault, forcible confinement and two counts of failing to comply with a prohibition involving children after the St. Vital incident, Winnipeg police said Friday.

Police allege he entered an elementary school on Thursday and hid in a bathroom, then grabbed a student after they came out of another stall. The child was able to escape and was not physically hurt, police said.

They did not name the schoo

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