By Andrew Seymour
Ottawa Citizen
January 18, 2008
http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/features/blotter/story.html?id=a7584d24-84cb-485a-85f9-d6cda815d4c0&k=60367
Another charge of sexual assault has been laid against an 84-year-old Cornwall-area priest after a man came forward alleging he had been abused as a young teenager.
Police charged Father Lucien Lussier with indecent assault Wednesday following a month long investigation into allegations that the now retired priest had sexually assaulted the man while he was visiting Father Lussier in Alexandria between 1955 and 1960.
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Police did not release any specific details about the nature of the alleged assaults.
The latest charge comes four months after police charged Father Lussier with three counts of indecent assault after a man came forward alleging he had been sexually assaulted by the priest between 1954 and 1960.
According to police, the alleged incidents occurred in Alexandria and area between 1954 and 1960 while the boy visited Father Lussier in Alexandria.
Police said the alleged assaults started when the boy was young and continued into his teenage years.
Following his arrest Wednesday, Father Lussier was released on an undertaking. He is scheduled to appear in Alexandria court on February 6, 2008.
According to church records, Father Lussier was ordained on March 27, 1955. In 1963, he began work with the St. Lawrence Roman Catholic Church in Curry Hill 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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