Former Sask. teacher gets jail sentence for sexual assaults

A man who used to teach in Wynyard and Foam Lake has been sentenced to 609 days in jail for sexually assaulting three students in the 1990s.

Gerard Loehr, 58, was sentenced Friday in Yorkton Provincial Court.

He initially was facing five counts of sexual assault and six counts of sexual interference relating to incidents that occurred in the province between 1990 and 1996. He was found guilty on three counts of sexual assault Nov. 13 in Wynyard Provincial Court.

In addition to the jail sentence, Loehr also was ordered to give a DNA sample and to register as a sex offender for the rest of his life.

According to the RCMP, the investigation began in February of 2019 after a woman filed a report of a historical sexual assault.

After that report was filed, five other women also alleged they had been assaulted by Loehr when he worked as a music teacher in the Shamrock School Division — including at schools in Wynyard and Foam Lake — in the early ’90s.

Loehr left Saskatchewan in 1996 and taught at schools in Ottawa after 2000.

After an investigation in that city, the Ottawa Police Service charged him in 2019 with numerous counts each of sexual assault and sexual interference in connection with incidents alleged to have occurred in that city between 2000 and 2018.

He’s to be back in court in Ottawa on those charges later this month.