PSB says it connected Craswell incidents in P.E.I. schools only after his 1st arrest [Video]

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The director of P.E.I.’s Public Schools Branch says the organization connected two classroom incidents involving Matthew Alan Craswell only after he was arrested on unrelated child pornography charges last summer.

Tracy Beaulieu sat down with CBC News for an interview Tuesday for the first time since Craswell pleaded guilty last week to sexual touching at Stratford’s Glen Stewart Primary, as well as child pornography offences. 

“Once we found out about the charges that were in place for Mr. Craswell, we went and looked into our records to see, was there anything that we had? And it did unfold that there was an investigation done in April [2024],” Beaulieu told CBC News.

“At that moment in time, we thought: ‘We need to notify police.'”

Public Schools Branch Director Tracy Beaulieu tells the CBC’s Nicola MacLeod …