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An Ottawa judge has stayed charges against a 15-year-old boy accused of sexually assaulting a three-year-old child at his mother’s daycare, finding that delays in bringing the case to trial violated the teen’s constitutional rights to a speedy trial.

It is the latest case in Ottawa to be stayed for delay after a Supreme Court ruling in July in the case of R. v. Jordan, which set a presumptive ceiling of 18 months of delay for cases in the provincial court and 30 months for cases in Superior court from the time the charge is laid until the end of the case.

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In staying the charges, Ontario Court Justice David Paciocco found that the amount of court delay that the Supreme Court found reasonable for an adult is not acceptable for a young person.

The judge also found delays in the accused boy’s case that he attributed to “technical failures” of courthouse technology and the amount of lost time it took to get them fixed, as well as what he described as the “state of readiness” of the Crown’s case.