Editor's note, Sept. 1, 2016: Schaumleffel was sentenced to 39 months in prison and a lifetime firearms ban for breaking and entering with intent to commit an offence. The Crown has recommended previous sexual assault and kidnapping charges be dropped as there was no sexual offence committed.
Charges have been dropped against the 23-year-old man previously accused of sexually assaulting a 9-year-old girl in Surrey after police determined that he did not commit the crime.
Surrey RCMP now say that Cory Schaumleffel, 28, has been charged with kidnapping, sexual assault, sexual interference, indecent act, and break and enter with intent in connection to the August incident.
Police requested a stay of proceedings in the case against the previous suspect on Oct. 10, saying the man confessed to a crime he didn’t commit.
The assault took place on Aug. 27 at around 10:40 p.m., when the victim was allegedly lured out of her open bedroom window by an unknown male.
Police investigators said the perpetrator took the girl to nearby Robson Park and sexually assaulted her, then reportedly took her to the yard of a neighbourhood home and told her to stay put.
The girl fled back home and reported the assault to her mother.
Police arrested the original suspect on Sept. 2 after he made comments that directly implicated himself in the incident. At the time, police credited the young victim with helping to catch her attacker, but did not elaborate on how.
An analysis of the original suspect’s comments, in combination with new physical evidence, led police to conclude that the original suspect did not commit the crime.
Surrey RCMP arrested Schaumleffel on Oct. 13.
