Yellowknife, July 27: The son of Prime Minister Jean Chretien has been charged with sexually assaulting an 18-year-old girl, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police said. Michel Charles Chretien, 33, was arrested and charged with one count of sexually assault on Friday after a woman complained to police that her daughter had been sexually assaulted at an apartment after a night of heavy drinking, the RCMP said in a news release.

Michel Chretien, who lives in Yellowknife, appeared before a Northwest Territories Justice of the Peace and was released under terms that were not released, the RCMP said.

Chretien, whom the prime minister and his wife Aline adopted as a small child from an orphanage of the Inuvik native tribe in the 1970s, was convicted 10 years ago for sexual assault and in 1998 for assaulting a 6-year-old boy. He admitted to a problem with cocaine, alcohol and marijuana during a parole hearing. Bureau Report