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CTV News
The Canadian Press
Published Wednesday, June 18, 2014
WINNIPEG — A former high-ranking Orthodox priest convicted of sexually assaulting an altar boy in Winnipeg faces a sentencing hearing today.
Seraphim Kenneth Storheim was found guilty earlier this year of assaulting a boy who lived and worked with him in 1985.
At the time, Storheim was a priest for the Orthodox Church in America, and he would later rise to become archbishop — the church’s top cleric in Canada.
The former altar boy, now in his 30s, testified Storheim made him fondle him and that the cleric inappropriately touched the boy as well.
Storheim’s lawyer has indicated he may ask that Storheim be spared jail time, in part because the cleric has no criminal record.
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