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WINNIPEG – The Crown is seeking a 12-month jail sentence for a former Orthodox priest who sexually assaulted an altar boy in Winnipeg.
Crown attorney Breta Passler told a sentencing hearing that Seraphim Kenneth Storheim abused a young person and betrayed a position of trust.
The defence is expected to ask that Storheim be spared any jail time.
Passler says the fact that Storheim, who is 68, has no criminal record is a mitigating factor.
The altar boy, now in his 30s, testified that he was made to fondle Storheim and Storheim touched him inappropriately as well.
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