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	Pembroke Priest to Face Fewer Charges Ottawa Citizen July 14, 2010 http://www.ottawacitizen.com/news/Pembroke+priest+face+fewer+charges/3279045/story.html Msgr. Robert Borne of Pembroke is now facing two counts each of indecent assault and gross indecency against two alleged victims after a number of charges involving three other complainants were dropped in Pembroke court Wednesday. Borne’s lawyer, Bob Carew, said the incidents now before the court were alleged to have occurred between Jan. 1 and Dec. 31, 1977, against one victim, and between Feb. 15 and Aug. 15, 1981, against the other. A publication ban has been ordered to protect the victims’ identities. Borne, who for years was the parish priest at St. James Church in Eganville, was charged in April 2009 with multiple counts of gross indecency, breach of trust and indecent assault for incidents involving five teenage boys between 1977 and 1995. Borne, who made up a large part of religious life in Renfrew County, had sometimes been called the bishop’s right-hand man. Borne is next scheduled to appear in court for a pre-trial hearing on Sept. 13.
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