Bridgewater: Leblanc Set To Appear Before Judge

The first court appearance since the arrest of 47 year-old David James Leblanc will be held on Tuesday morning in Bridgewater. Leblanc is charged with forcible confinement and sexual assault in connection with an incident in Upper Chelsea, Lunenburg County where a 16 year-old boy claims he was held captive and sexually assaulted for nearly two weeks. Leblanc was arrested on September 30th in northern Ontario. When police picked him up, he was found walking on a logging road with no shoes and little clothing in near freezing temperatures. He spent nearly four days in hospital recovering from frostbite and was flown back to Halifax in a police airplane on Friday. The body of his co-accused, Wayne Cunningham, was found near an abandoned vehicle on October 3rd,  not far from where Leblanc was arrested.