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Former northern B.C. mayor Luke Strimbold's sentencing pushed to December

Strimbold pleaded guilty to four counts of sexual assault involving four boys
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Former Mayor of Burns Lake, Luke Strimbold.

Luke Strimbold's sentencing has been pushed back to December.

His sentencing hearing was scheduled for today (Nov. 26) after getting moved from September, but was rescheduled to due scheduling issues.

Communications Counsel for the B.C. Prosecution Service, Dan McLaughlin said submissions wrapped up today and court has been adjourned to Wednesday, Dec. 4 at 11 a.m.

Strimbold pleaded guilty on May 5, 2019, to four counts of sexual assault involving four boys who were under the age of 16 at the time. 

An indictment shows the assaults that Strimbold pleaded guilty to are said to have happened between May of 2014 and August 2017. 

A special prosecutor had previously approved 29 charges against Strimbold, including sexual interference and invitation to sexual touching, that were alleged to have involved six people. The remaining 25 counts were stayed.

He was elected mayor of Burns Lake in 2011 at the age of 21, which made him the youngest mayor ever of a city in British Columbia.