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Ingram, reached by phone Wednesday at the office number listed for her on Capilano’s website, said: “I’m sorry, I can’t talk to you,” and referred questions to the university’s communications department.

Ingram joined the university’s Sechelt campus in 2013, and the following year she began working as an educational planning-advising officer, said Capilano spokeswoman Cheryl Rossi. In Ingram’s current role, Rossi said, she “advises potential students, who may be minors. She does not visit high schools on behalf of the university.”

On Tuesday, a Sunshine Coast mother emailed the university to raise concerns about Ingram’s employment, which Rossi said was the first complaint they had so far heard on the issue, four years after Ingram started working there.

Asked about concerns over hiring Ingram for a job involving contact with minors, Rossi referred to a section of the B.C. Human Rights Code, which bars discriminating against potential employees due to race, religion, disability, sexual orientation, or because a person has been convicted of an “offence that is unrelated to the employment or to the intended employment of that person.”

But the mother who contacted the university said she was surprised that Ingram’s sexual exploitation conviction, although old, was considered “unrelated” to her current educational work.

The concerned Sunshine Coast mother, who asked that her name not be published due to fears of repercussions in the small town, said: “People need another chance, they do. But maybe not in the field of education?”