A 54-year-old man has been charged after he allegedly confined two teenage girls in a downtown hotel room and sexually assaulted them.
The Winnipeg Police Service was contacted by a girl seeking help at about 8:30 a.m. Saturday. She told officers a man had sexually assaulted her and her friend in a downtown hotel, that she had escaped, and that the other two people were still in the hotel room.
A suspect fled out the second-storey window when police arrived. He was arrested and transported to hospital in stable condition.
Both teenagers were transported to hospital in stable condition.
The WPS sex crimes unit determined a man had approached the two teens and an adult woman who is a friend of the girls on the 800 block of Main Street on Friday. All four people went to a hotel suite, where the man gave the females alcohol and drugs, police said.
Police said the man approached the two girls on the same block of Main at about 7 a.m. Saturday. They went back to the hotel, where the man gave them more alcohol and drugs, the WPS said.
“While inside the suite he prevented them from leaving, and they were physically and sexually assaulted,” police said in a news release Tuesday.
Kelly Trent Schoffer, 54, has been charged with two counts each of sexual assault, forcible confinement and failing to comply with a probation order and single counts of assault, obtaining sexual services for consideration and possession of cocaine.
Schoffer, who was detained in custody, was on parole.
The WPS and Manitoba RCMP asked for the public’s help in finding Schoffer in February 2017, when he was 46. He was wanted on a Canada-wide warrant for failing to comply with conditions of a long-term supervision order. Police released a photo of Schoffer at the time and called him a high-risk offender.
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