CANADA
Hindustan Times
A priest at an Abbotsford Hindu temple has been found guilty of three counts of sexual interference with two young women in his congregation. Karam Vir, 33, was charged in November 2010 with two counts of touching a young person for a sexual purpose, and one count of sexual
assault.
While delivering the verdict BC Supreme Court Justice Neill Brown remanded Vir to custody until his sentence is pronounced in August.
Brown, in reviewing the evidence, painted a picture of long-term friendships that had developed between Vir and the two teenagers over months (girls identities protected due to a publication ban).
These relationships of trust were breached when Vir made sexual advances, sexually exploiting the girls, then 17.
“I believe their testimony in the way that Vir exploited their trust,” Brown said. “I find credible the complainants’ evidence that Vir sexually touched them . . . I find both complainants were fearful.”
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