RED DEER, Alta. - An Alberta woman lost another court battle yesterday to stop her young daughters from having to visit their sex offender father in prison.
Gaylene Bobb, Ms. Dillman's lawyer, argued that Justice Foster should hear the case because the girls, aged five and six, were at risk of harm from visiting John Schneeberger, a Saskatchewan doctor who was convicted of sexually assaulting two female patients in 1999.
Schneeberger is serving a six-year sentence for sexually assaulting the patients while he was a doctor in Kipling, Sask. He was also convicted of obstruction of justice for trying to thwart a DNA test by inserting a tube of someone else's blood into his arm.
Ms. Dillman, who moved to Red Deer in the fall of 1999, has said her daughters don't even know Schneeberger. She has been fined $2,000 for refusing to take her girls to visit Schneeberger in November, 1999, prior to his sentencing.
