A Southside offender, who has been convicted of touching for a sexual purpose a person under the age of 16, still hasn鈥檛 been sentenced.

Although his sentencing hearing had been scheduled to take place last June, it was postponed until May 2018 and then Oct. 26, 2018.

The offender had originally been charged with four counts, but was only convicted of two 鈥� touching for a sexual purpose a person under the age of 16, and communicating with the complainant for the purpose of facilitating his touching for a sexual purpose.

Although he was originally found guilty of sexually assaulting the complainant, this count was stayed by the court based on the 鈥淜ienapple principle,鈥� which prevents an accused person from being convicted of multiple offences arising out of the same incident. He was also found not guilty of criminally harassing the complainant.

His release was revoked and he was remanded in custody when he was last in court on Sept. 7, 2018. The new sentence date is now Dec. 3, 2018.