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London Free Press
KELLY PEDRO, Free Press Crime Reporter 2005-06-19 02:56:35
The head of the London District Catholic school board questions whether a priest facing child sex-offence charges should be living next to a London school until trial.
Joe Rapai said he spoke with the diocese of London and the Norfolk County Crown attorney Friday to ask whether it was possible to move Rev. Konstanty Przybylski to a parish that's not next to an elementary school.
"My question was, 'Could it be any other site?' " Rapai, the board's education director, said yesterday.
"I thought it was important to raise the question of whether there was any chance (he could be moved). There are some parishes that are not immediately adjacent to a school."
Przybylski, 55, was charged Wednesday with two counts of sexual assault, two counts of sexual exploitation, sexual interference and sexual touching.
Two young men say they were sexually assaulted at St. Cecilia's Church in Port Dover, where Przybylski was a priest between 1995 and 2000, Norfolk OPP have said.