More Trouble for Former St Mary's Principal

Sault Star
February 8, 2012

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SUDBURY -- A former principal at St. Charles College in Sudbury is facing more sex charges.

William Hodgson Marshall, who is now 89, has been charged with two counts of indecent assault after two Saskatoon women complained about being assaulted in 1959 and 1960.

Marshall was a priest and teacher at the Saskatoon high school the two women attended, police said Tuesday.

In separate reports, the women said they were assaulted between Jan. 1 and Dec. 31, 1959, and between Jan. 1 and Dec. 31, 1960.

Each woman told police she was 14 at the time of the alleged assault. The women are now 66.

Marshall is currently serving a two-year jail sentence in Kingston Penitentiary. He was sentenced in June after pleading guilty to 17 charges of indecent assault. He admitted to assaulting 16 male students and one female student while he taught in Windsor, Toronto and Sudbury.

He taught in Sudbury in the 1960s and '70s.

Marshall was also principal at St. Mary's in Sault Ste. Marie.

In the fall of 2010, Greater Sudbury Police charged Marshall with six counts of gross indecency and six counts of indecent assault related to six Sudbury victims. The Sudbury charges were later transferred to Windsor.

Two southern Ontario men, Jerome Edward Boyle and Patrick David Lawrence McMahon, have each launched $3- million lawsuits.

Boyle is suing Marshall, the Basilian Fathers of Toronto, the Windsor-Essex Catholic District School Board, the Roman Catholic Episcopal Corporation of the Diocese of London and Bishop Ronald Peter Fabbro over the abuse. McMahon is suing Marshall, the Basilian Fathers of Toronto and Fabbro.

"Unless you have been a victim of sexual abuse, you can never imagine the long-term effects," Boyle said at a news conference in December. "I have been haunted for more than half a century by memories of the terror I experienced."

More lawsuits against Marshall, including from at least some of the Sudbury victims, are expected to be filed this year.