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Predator pleads guilty

A man has pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting a six-year-old girl on an Alberta reserve in what Mounties called a horrific attack.

Relatives have said the child was found near dead and lying naked in the snow on the Paul First Nation a few days before last Christmas.

She was flown to hospital in Edmonton, where she remained unconscious for several days.

James Clifford Paul was arrested and charged with several offences, including attempted murder.

The 22-year-old pleaded guilty this week at the beginning of a preliminary hearing to charges of sexual assault and aggravated assault.

A date for sentencing is to be set in the new year.



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