A Nova Scotia group that helps sexual assault victims says the province needs to tighten the conditions on the release of people accused of sexual abuse.

Irene Smith of the Avalon Sexual Assault Centre says she’s concerned about the release of 47-year-old David James Leblanc — who is now wanted on charges of confining and assaulting a teenage boy in Lunenburg County.

Smith says more restrictive conditions should have been imposed on Leblanc when he was released in 2010 pending a hearing on unrelated charges of sexual assault and possessing child pornography.

He was due in court in Halifax in November to answer to charges.