There are now calls for the resignation of the entire band council of the Pheasant Rump First Nation in southeast Saskatchewan.

It is the latest chapter in the saga of a disgraced chief who is now out on bail after being convicted of sexual assault of a teenaged girl.

The Aboriginal Peoples Television Network talked to the mother of the 16-year-old victim.

APTN reporter Larrissa Burnouf says the mother has been informed by the RCMP that Terrence McArthur is no longer in custody and is in fact living and working near the reserve.

“He has been released and is living in the community of Kisby which is pretty much across the highway from the reserve land but his family owns property, kind of like the gas station on the reserve land, and he is working on reserve and living nearby,” she says.

On Aug. 7, McArthur was sentenced to nine months in jail for the inappropriate sexual touching of the girl who was 16 at the time.

The sentence came as a surprise to both his lawyer and the Crown prosecutor who jointly proposed a conditional sentence of one year to be served in the community.

The judge rejected this proposal, saying a jail sentence was in order.

The decision has been appealed and in the interim McArthur is out of jail, having served only about a week in custody.

In another new development, there are calls for the entire Pheasant Rump band council to resign.

Burnouf says a small but vocal group is leading the charge.

“From what we do hear from the protestors is that their families are pretty worried that he is still in the region and some teens and young girls are worried about him driving around and them being alone,” she says.

Pheasant Rump Band councillor Gaylene McArthur says the band has decided not to pay the former chief any severance.

McArthur had resigned as chief before sentencing as part of an agreement that would see him collect nearly $48,000 in severance.

Earlier this week, Gaylene McArthur told MBC news the band cannot afford this severance package and was trying to renegotiate it.

Now she is saying there will be no severance provided to the former chief at all.

Gaylene McArthur also says the band has not provided the former chief any finances for his legal bills or his bail.