Canada to deport man on probation

A schoolteacher convicted of improperly touching a teenage student has been ordered deported from Canada, although an appeal of the ruling means he probably can stay in the country at least a year, a government spokeswoman said.

A review board ruled that Malcolm Watson, a U.S. citizen and former teacher at an all-girls school in Buffalo, N.Y., had committed an offense that constituted “serious criminality” in Canada, and so made him inadmissible to the country.

Watson pleaded guilty two months ago in a New York court to endangering the welfare of a child and sexual abuse in the third degree, but was told he could serve his three-year probation in Canada, where Watson lives not far from the U.S.-Canada border.