Sex-charges suspect gets assault added

David Raymond Couture, charged with invitation to sexual touching of a 14-year-old girl, was charged with assault June 8 in an unrelated incident.
Couture was scheduled to appear in B.C. Provincial Court in Quesnel on Tuesday on the sexual-touching charge when he was arrested following a confrontation with an Quesnel Cariboo Observer photographer outside the courthouse.
Mounties stepped in when Couture made contact with the photographer in an attempt to prevent his photograph from being taken.
Couture was arrested and is scheduled to appear in court on Wednesday.
Couture’s previous charge stems from an incident on April 24, when RCMP responded to a call from the Quesnel Library.
Staff there said a man had propositioned a 14-year-old girl. Police say the man began chatting up the girl, eventually offering to take her back to his van.
The girl told library staff, who then called police, who arrived and arrested Couture.
Couture is well-known to police and has an extensive criminal record, including convictions for violent offences.
At the time of his first appearance on the invitation to sexual touching charge, Couture was released by a provincial court judge under a number of conditions: to have no contact with children under the age of 16; to not to be anywhere where children under the age of 17 might be, including public parks, school grounds, day cares and recreational centres; to not to be in the Quesnel or Williams Lake area; to not possess drugs, alcohol or weapons.