A former Peterborough resident charged in connection with an alleged 2013 sexual assault made his first court appearance via Zoom on Wednesday (September 9).
Raymond Frederick Henderson, the former artistic director of Peterborough’s Arbor Theatre who also taught at Fleming College, will make his next court appearance on Wednesday, October 14, 2020, represented by Peterborough lawyer Trevor Burgess.
Neither Henderson nor his lawyer were present for the appearance, but the next appearance date was agreed to by the Crown.
Henderson, 49, was arrested in July and charged with sexual assault and two counts of sexual exploitation.
Those charges were laid following a Peterborough police investigation into an allegation that he assaulted and exploited a female under the age of 18 at the time of the alleged incident.
A warrant was issued for Henderson’s arrest on July 6. Now living in Brantford, he turned himself in July 9 at the city police station at which time he was formally charged and released from custody.
Henderson was well known in Peterborough’s theatre community as an actor and director.
