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	Priest Who Taught at St. Michael’s College School Sentenced to 2 Years for Sex Abuse By Mary Ormsby Toronto Star June 9, 2011 http://www.thestar.com/news/article/1005672--toronto-priest-gets-2-year-sentence-for-sex-abuse The Roman Catholic priest who sexually assaulted male students over a four-decade span as a high school teacher was sentenced to two years in prison Thursday. Rev. William Hodgson Marshall, 88, was handcuffed and led out of a Windsor courtroom after Ontario Court Justice Lloyd Dean also placed him on probation for three years, ordered that he report to police to be placed on the national sex offender registry and give a DNA sample. Marshall, who taught at Toronto’s St. Michael’s College School in the 1950s, pleaded guilty Wednesday to indecently assaulting 16 children — 15 boys and one girl — during his teaching career across Ontario. Four of the victims are from Toronto, at least one a former St. Mike’s student. There are six each from Sudbury and Windsor. The earliest charge dates back to 1953, the later ones from the 1980s. Most of the retired priest’s victims were students at all-boys’ high schools run by the Congregation of St. Basil, a Roman Catholic order of teaching priests. The Basilian fathers operate St. Mike’s, where at least one victim was abused in a private room at the school. Marshall was also a basketball coach who would assault boys in the school locker room. During school hours, he routinely pulled boys from class to molest them in his private office. The priest’s string of assaults on children went unreported for nearly 60 years until a 43-year-old Windsor man complained to police in May of 2010.
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