{"id":730561,"date":"2026-06-11T21:16:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T21:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/730561\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T21:16:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T21:16:09","slug":"sentencing-set-for-former-b-c-massage-therapist-with-ties-to-surrey-penticton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/730561\/","title":{"rendered":"Sentencing set for former B.C. massage therapist with ties to Surrey, Penticton"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sentencing set for former B.C. massage therapist with ties to Surrey, Penticton<\/p>\n

Published 1:05 pm Thursday, June 11, 2026<\/p>\n

The sentencing hearing for a former Surrey massage therapist convicted on multiple counts of sexual assault is to take place this fall in B.C. Supreme Court in New Westminster.<\/p>\n

B.C. Prosecution Service officials confirmed the proceedings for Leonard Krekic \u2013 who also has ties to both White Rock and Penticton \u2013 have been scheduled for Oct. 15-16, 2026, in front of Justice Lance Bernard.<\/p>\n

Krekic was found guilty in May<\/a> of 12 counts of sexual assault; a decision that followed a 35-day trial sparked by incidents alleged to have occurred at or near Surrey between Dec. 30, 1994 and April 25, 2017.<\/p>\n

Publication bans are in effect regarding anything that could identify the victims\/witnesses.<\/p>\n

In July 2023, police in Surrey issued a news release announcing charges against the then-51-year-old in connection with allegations of sexual assaults that had occurred between December 2001 and April 2017. The release \u2013 describing Krekic as a White Rock resident and issued in a quest for additional information from the public \u2013 noted that Krekic had also practised in two Penticton clinics in 2018 and 2019.<\/p>\n

The charges referenced in that release involved eight patients, and that during the time frame noted, Krekic was working at a clinic located in the 10300-block of 136A Street.<\/p>\n

In December 2022, the College of Massage Therapists banned Krekic from the profession for 25 years and ordered him to pay more than $105,000 for sexual misconduct on the job, in connection with incidents alleged by six female patients to have occurred between 2012 and 2019.<\/p>\n

The maximum sentence for sexual assault is 10 years in prison.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sentencing set for former B.C. massage therapist with ties to Surrey, Penticton Published 1:05 pm Thursday, June 11,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":730562,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194299],"tags":[903,49,48,163792,87674],"class_list":["post-730561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-surrey","tag-british-columbia","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-lower-mainland","tag-surrey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=730561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730561\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/730562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=730561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=730561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=730561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}