Sex Assault Suspect Nabbed
Posted March 6, 2010 6:26 pm.
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Police have arrested a man charged with sex crimes against children after he walked away from an Ottawa psychiatric hospital.
Eldon James Hardy, 64, (pictured), was arrested Saturday after a tipster called Sarnia police and told them Hardy was hiding out in a London hotel.
It was previously thought he may have been in the G.T.A.
Hardy was charged in the alleged sexual assault of two boys last fall. Ottawa police say he’s failed to comply with the release conditions.
Hardy has spent much time in maximum security psychiatric facilities after being found not criminally responsible for multiple attacks on young boys in the 1970’s and 1980’s.
This is the second time Hardy has escaped from the Royal Ottawa Mental Health Centre.
