Kevin Maryk, who abducted his Winnipeg kids, faces new charges
A Winnipeg man who abducted his children and was found four years later hiding them in Mexico is going go to trial on a handful of new charges.
Kevin Maryk appeared in a Winnipeg court Tuesday to face six new charges, including assault, uttering threats and living off the avails of prostitution.
A trial date has been set for Dec. 9.
The new charges date back to a time before he took his children, Abby and Dominic, to Mexico.
The children went missing in August 2008 and weren't found until May 2012 — in a townhouse complex in Guadalajara, Mexico.
At the time of their disappearance, Abby and Dominic — five and seven years old, respectively — were on a two-week vacation as part of a court-approved visit with Maryk. Their mother, Emily Cablek, has legal custody.
In June of this year, Maryk pleaded guilty to two counts of abduction, one for each of the children. In return for the plea, the Crown dropped three other abduction-related charges against him.
In September, he was sentenced to four years in prison but with credit for time served, the time behind bars was reduced to 374 days.
A week before Maryk's plea, one of his accomplices, Robert Groen, was sentenced to a year in jail after pleading guilty to abduction-related charges.
A third man, Cody McKay, who is Maryk's nephew, is still at large and a Canada-wide warrant remains for his arrest.