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“I’m shocked,” she said after learning the charges. “Wow.”

Investigators believed the attack was a “crime of opportunity,” taking advantage of the fact the teen girl was alone. Police said the girl didn’t know Bellfoy.

The girl remained in hospital Wednesday but her condition was considered non life-threatening.

A suspect, who was injured when the girl fought him off before he was taken down in a “citizen’s arrest,” also remained in hospital.

The area where the attack happened is close to a tent village where there have been 50 to 60 dangerous confrontations in the past year between homeless people and students who must pass the camp to go to school, the head of Gatineau’s main school board said Wednesday morning.

Now Johanne Légaré, the president of Commission scolaire des Portages-de-l’Outaouais, said the board wants the city to shut down the camp, which is just outside the school property, permanently.

She was on a path that some 200 students take each day to cross Brewery Creek, and it leads past the homeless camp near the Robert Guertin Arena.

“I’m very concerned that the security of our students was compromised by an event like this,” Légaré said in an interview. “The campers would often intimidate them and yell at them. And we’re talking here about young kids.

“This is a high school and some of them are maybe 11, 12 years old. Especially the girls. They were very intimidated walking through that campsite.”

Légaré said the board advised Mayor Maxime Pedneaud-Jobin in October about its concerns.