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	Retired Priest Accused of Sex Crimes in 1950s By Andrew Seymour Times Colonist September 15, 2007 http://www.canada.com/victoriatimescolonist/news/story.html?id= abc38b92-bba7-4b10-ac75-8a41a4470177 Ottawa — A retired Ontario priest is facing criminal charges after being accused of sexually assaulting a young boy more than five decades ago. Cornwall-area priest Lucien Lussier, 84, was charged by Ontario Provincial Police Tuesday, with three counts of indecent assault on a male after a man stepped forward to police last month alleging he was sexually assaulted by a priest in the 1950s. According to police, the alleged incidents occurred in Alexandria and area between 1954 and 1960. OPP Sgt. Kristine Rae said the alleged assaults started when the male was young and continued into his teenage years. She would not elaborate on the nature of the alleged assaults. Attempts to reach Lussier at his Cornwall home were not successful yesterday. Bishop Paul-Andre Durocher of the Alexandria-Cornwall Archdiocese also did not return requests for comment. According to church records, Lussier was ordained on March 27, 1955. In 1963 he began work with the St. Lawrence Roman Catholic Church in Curry Hill, Ont., before stints across eastern Ontario at Catholic churches in Glen Robertson, Martintown, Dalkeith and Moose Creek. In the late 1990s he spent time in Massachusetts before returning to Cornwall in 1999. It is not clear what his duties included during the years when the alleged assaults occurred.
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