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Sex trial for ex-Alpine coach

A trial for a former national ski coach who faces dozens of sex-related charges involving allegations from girls as young as 12 has been put off until Thursday.

The 57 charges against Bertrand Charest include sexual assault and breach of trust.

His trial was to have begun this morning in Saint-Jerome, Que., where Charest has been in custody since his arrest in March 2015.

But a judge granted a delay because the accused has new lawyers.

Charest, who worked with Alpine Canada's women's development team between 1996 and 1998, was in the prisoner's box today.

The allegations date back to the 1990s and involve locations such as Mont-Tremblant, north of Montreal, and Whistler, B.C., as well as in France, Austria, New Zealand and the United States.



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