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	Former Mattawa Priest Faces Sex-related Charges By Tina Peplinskie North Bay Nugget October 14, 2009 http://www.nugget.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=2090139 A prehearing has been scheduled for a Pembroke priest facing a number of sex-related assault charges involving five people. The Crown attorney and defence counsel for Monsignor Robert Borne will meet Nov. 17 to discuss the charges against the 61-year-old Roman Catholic priest. The Crown has elected to proceed by indictment. Borne faces 19 charges, including gross indecency, sexual exploitation, indecent assault and breach of trust, in connection with incidents between 1977 and 1993. He was initially charged by the Ontario Provincial Police Renfrew County Crime Unit in April in relation to three alleged victims. The investigation began in January 2008 after police received a complaint about a sexual assault on a teenaged boy visiting Borne. Other people came forward to police as a result of the original investigation. In June, police began looking into complaints he sexually assaulted other teenage boys. The Roman Catholic priest is a native of Pembroke. He turned himself in at the Renfrew OPP detachment June 5 when he was arrested. In 2003, Borne became pastor of St. James Parish in Eganville and Nativity of Our Lady Mission in Golden Lake. On Sept. 1, 2004, he was appointed priest co-ordinator of St. Ann Parish, Cormac, with particular responsibility for the annual pilgrimage to the Shrine of St. Ann, Cormac. Borne was ordained April 20, 1974. He was a curate in Mattawa between 1974 and 1975. From 1975 until 2003 he served in a number of administrative roles including chancellor of the diocese, secretary to the bishop and curate at Our Lady of Lourdes. Contact: newsroom@nugget.ca
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