Frank Prevost resigned as mayor of South Glengarry, Ont., after he was charged with sexual assault and child luring in 2021. He died last month. The former mayor of a township just outside Cornwall, Ont. — who resigned six months after he was charged with sexual assault and child luring in 2021 — died last month.In the summer of 2021, Ontario Provincial Police accused Prevost, then 53 and the mayor of South Glengarry,stemming from an undercover police operation.
Trials had been scheduled for both outstanding matters, according to court records, but Prevost's health had been deteriorating. They "could not proceed because he was unable to attend court or participate in a trial," his lawyer Mark Ertel said in an email.Prevost's death was first reported by Cornwall Newswatch.In July 2023, Ontario Court Justice Diane Lahaie found Prevost guilty of sexual assaulting someone between 2018 and 2021 in Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry, according to court records.
In November, Prevost was sentenced to four years in prison, his name was added to the sexual offender registry, and he was ordered to submit his DNA, among other orders. He and his lawyer launched an appeal that same month. On Nov. 8, the court granted Prevost bail pending a hearing on the matter.A notice to abandon the appeal has been submitted and is being processed, a spokesperson for the court wrote in an email Monday.as mayor of South Glengarry and was removed as warden of the United Counties of Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry.Lyle Warden was promoted from deputy mayor to interim mayor. Current South Glengarry Mayor Lachlan McDonald was elected in 2022.