Priest pleads guilty in sex case

CANADA
The Windsor Star

An elderly Catholic priest who once taught at Windsor’s Assumption high school as well as various high schools in the Ottawa region has pleaded guilty for the second time in a year to sexually assaulting a teen boy in his care.

Father Kenneth John O’Keefe, 82, pleaded guilty in a Hull courtroom this week to “indecently assaulting” a then-17-year-old boy over the course of four months between September and December 1969.

He also pleaded guilty to “an act of gross indecency” during the same period, with the same victim, known only as G-L.B.

G-L.B. was a student at Ottawa’s St. Joseph’s Catholic School.

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