Sexual Assault Trial Begins against Former Catholic Priest

By Neil Bowen
The Sarnia Observer
October 16, 2013

http://www.chathamdailynews.ca/2013/10/16/sexual-assault-trial-begins-against-former-catholic-priest

A woman in her forties testified about a "rough and weird" sexual involvement with a former Catholic priest when she was 15 during a Superior Court trial today in Sarnia.

Gabriele DelBianco, 57, has been charged with 16 sexual offences involving four women during the 1980s.

The first witness in the trial that began today said DelBianco had been like a rock star when she met him at her church when she was 12.

DelBianco drove a sports car wore flashy clothes and gave entertaining sermons.

"I kind of idolized him'" said the woman.

During an overnight visit to a Lambton Shores cottage DelBianco gave her alcohol and they showered together. On the bathroom floor she performed oral sex on him and he digitally penetrated her vagina in what she called "rough and weird" sex.