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Former
Canadian Olympic champion to stand trial
over custodial case
Quebec Court Judge Pierre Verdon ruled at a preliminary hearing on Monday that Crown prosecutors had presented enough evidence to try the former biathlete. "Ms. Bedard took it upon herself to act in a way that effectively deprived (her daughter's father) of his rights, agreed to in a February 2004 order," Verdon said in his ruling. Bedard's ex-husband Jean Paquet told the hearing that he had a hard time getting in touch with their daughter after Bedard fled the country with the 12-year-old girl last fall. Paquet told the court that Bedard took their child across the border into the U.S. last October with her current husband, Nima Mazhari. Bedard, 37, spent two weeks in a jail in Maryland, U.S. over Christmas under an international arrest warrant for parental child abduction. Bedard, who retains primary custody of
her child, won two gold medals at the 1994
Winter Olympics. A date for her trial will
be set on June 11.
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