A provincially appointed supervisor assigned to monitoring a high-risk sex offender in Kelowna sat in the car outside an equestrian centre for 2½ hours while an 11-year-old girl was victimized by Taylor Dueck, B.C. United MLA Renee Merrifield alleged Tuesday.

“While children were arriving for after-school lessons, this convicted child molester’s supervisor sat in the parking lot, in his vehicle, for 2½ hours,” Merrifield, the MLA for Kelowna-Mission, said in the legislature, her voice shaking with anger.

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“The result was an 11-year-old girl being cornered and sexually assaulted in the bathroom by this predator.”