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	Priests Faced Prison, Probation, Lawsuits By Trevor Wilhelm Windsor Star July 22, 2011 http://www.windsorstar.com/news/Priests+faced+prison+probation+lawsuits/5141835/story.html [22 priests, hundreds of victims] Twenty two London diocese priests have been convicted, charged or sued for sexual abuse. 1. Rev. Barry Glendinning. In May 1974 Glendinning pleaded guilty to six counts of gross indecency involving children. He was given a suspended sentence and three years probation. He was also sued in 2006 for abuse at Our Lady of Guadalope parish in Windsor. 2. Rev. Robert Morrissey. In February 1993 he was sentenced to 18 months probation for attempted buggery, indecent assault and assault. 3. Rev. Michael Francis White. In January 1994 he pleaded guilty to one count of indecent assault against a young girl. He was given 18 months probation. 4. Rev. Gary Roy. In February 1998 he pleaded guilty to two counts of indecent assault against boys. He was sentenced to four months in jail. 5. Rev. John Stock. He pleaded guilty in January 1999 to gross indecency against a young boy and was sentenced to 12 months. 6. Rev. Cameron MacLean. In February 2001 he was sentenced to two years less a day after pleading guilty to indecent assault and sexual assault of young boys. In 2002 he pleaded guilty to nine charges of sexual assault for abusing eight boys, three in Windsor, in the 1970s and 1980s. 7. Rev. Thomas Cromien. In June 2001 he pleaded guilty to indecent assault of a teenage boy. He was sentenced to two years less a day. 8. Rev. Richard Boll. He was sentenced to two years in prison in November 2001 after pleading guilty to gross indecency, indecent assault and sexual assault against boys. At the time of his arrest, Boll was the bishop's adviser on canon law. 9. Rev. John Harper got three years probation in March 2003 after he pleaded guilty to indecent assault involving minors in Windsor in the 1960s. 10. Rev. Konstanty 'Konnie' Przybylski. On July 4, 2006, he was sentenced to five years in prison after pleading guilty to sexual assault and sexual exploitation of two teenage boys in the Port Dover area. 11. Rev. Charles Sylvestre. (Deceased) He pleaded guilty on Aug. 3, 2006, to 47 counts of indecent assault and was sentenced in October to three years in prison. The majority of his crimes took place in Chatham while he was pastor of St. Ursula's parish. 12. Rev. Godwin Scerri. In April 2010, the OPP resurrected the case against Scerri, who was charged in June 1993 for sexually abusing minors between 1983 and 1987 when he served at St. William's Church in Emeryville. He fled to his native Malta. The search warrant remains open in Canada. 13. Rev. Leo Charron. The retired Belle River priest pleaded guilty in September 1993 to indecent assault and gross indecency against a boy who was 12 when the abuse began. Charron was pastor of St. Jerome's Church in Windsor. 14. Rev. John Duarte. The former head of a Haitian mission pleaded guilty in April 2010 to sexual abusing adolescent boys there. He was sentenced to up to eight months in prison. During the 1990s Duarte served as a parish priest in Windsor and Essex County. 15. Rev. Laurent C. Paquette. (Deceased) Lawsuit issued in January 2008 alleges sexual abuse was perpetrated while Paquette was a priest at St. Gregory Parish and chaplain at St. Gregory school in St. Clair Beach. 16. Rev. William Ring (Deceased). Lawsuit issued in November 2006 alleging sexual abuse while Ring was a priest at St. Paul's Catholic Church in Thamesville. 17. Rev. William Hodgson 'Hod' Marshall. On June 10, Marshall was led away in handcuffs to begin serving a two-year sentence stemming from abuse of students in all-male Catholic high schools in Windsor, Sudbury and Toronto from 1952-85. 18. Rev. Douglas Mercer. A lawsuit was filed in November 2009 alleging sexual abuse while Mercer was a priest at St. Thomas the Apostle Parish in Windsor. 19. Rev. Michael Fallona. A lawsuit was filed in November 2009 alleging sexual abuse in the summer of 1977 while Fallona was a priest at St. Vincent de Paul Parish in Windsor. 20. Rev. Bernard Alphonse Robert. A lawsuit is pending regarding allegations of sexual abuse in the 1970s while Robert was a priest of St. Francis Xavier Parish in Tilbury . 21. Rev. Piotr Sanczenko. Sanczenko is charged with sexual assault involving two victims at Our Lady of Victory Church in Chatham from 196373. The case is pending. 22. Rev. Gabriele Del Bianco. Bianco is charged criminally with sexual assault. His prosecution is ongoing. He has also been sued by 10 alleged victims of sex abuse. The majority of his parish work was in Wallaceburg and Windsor.
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