A 45-year-old man has been charged with child abandonment after a high-profile incident a year ago at a hotel in Whistler.

The Sea to Sky RCMP were called to the hotel on the village stroll in Whistler just after 7 p.m. on July 1 about a disturbance.

Bystanders told police “they could see a male holding a child over a balcony, (while) a female could be heard screaming and damage was occurring inside the hotel,” said Const. Antoine Graebling in a news release Thursday.

The man and woman were apprehended under the Mental Health Act and the child received medical care.

Late last month, the B.C. Prosecution Service approved a charge of abandoning a child and one count of failing to provide the necessaries of life against Jason Frost, who isn’t a Whistler resident.

“This was a highly visib

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