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Steve Lambert, The Canadian Press
Published Monday, June 10, 2013
WINNIPEG — A man has told a Winnipeg courtroom that when he was an altar boy he was sexually abused by a cleric in the Orthodox Church in America.
The man, whose identity is protected under a publication ban, says Seraphim Storheim exposed himself and asked to be touched sexually.
The man also testified that Storheim, now in his late 60s, got into bed with him on one occasion.
Storheim, who has pleaded not guilty, is accused of repeated sexual assaults on two boys in the mid 1980s.
He later became Canadian archbishop of the church, which is separate from other orthodox churches such as the Greek Orthodox Church and Ukrainian Orthodox Church.
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