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	Winnipeg Police Charge 3 Sikh Priests with Sexual Assault CBC News [Canada] January 12, 2007 http://www.cbc.ca/canada/manitoba/story/2007/01/12/sikh-arrests.html Winnipeg police on Thursday charged three Sikh priests with assaulting a child during the 1990s. Const. Jacqueline Chaput says the victim alleges the abuse started when he was eight years old at the Gurdwara Nanaksar temple in St. Vital, spanning June 1990 to January 1996. He came forward with his complaint last month, said Chaput. Bakhshish Singh, 47, Kuljit Singh, 43, and Dalbag Singh, 37, all face charges of sexual assault, sexual exploitation, sexual interference and invitation to sexual touching. Kuljit and Dalbag Singh are each additionally charged with anal intercourse. The three were first arrested on Dec. 23. Chaput says there may be more arrests. Members of the Sikh community say the temple in question is part of a sect outside of mainstream Sikhism in which religious leaders remain celibate.
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