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	Charges against Ex-military Chaplain Dropped The Simcoe January 13, 2011 http://www.simcoe.com/news/article/929028--charges-against-ex-military-chaplain-dropped Sexual assault charges against the former head of the Canadian Forces chaplaincy at Base Borden have been dropped. Roman Catholic chaplain Roger Bazin, 73, was charged in February 2010 with buggery, sexual assault and gross indecency stemming from an alleged attack that took place earlier in his career with an underage boy at the base. The incident, which was alleged to have happened in 1972, wasn’t reported by the victim until June 2009 and led to a military police investigation. At the Barrie courthouse this week, the crown dropped the charges, stating there was an “unreasonable prospect of conviction” based on the available evidence. Bazin, who retired from the Canadian Forces in 1995, rose through the ranks of the military, eventually becoming a brigadier-general with command of all Catholic chaplains in the Canadian Forces. In 2005 Bazin was accused by a Thunder Bay family for engaging in “inappropriate activity” with their 16-year-old son. At the time of the allegation, Bazin was working in the Thunder Bay community at a Catholic church. A criminal complaint was never filed but church officials later confirmed Bazin paid the family in excess of $24,000 in a private settlement.
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