CANADA
Ottawa Citizen
MEGHAN HURLEY
An Ottawa priest who counselled students after the fatal explosion at Mother Teresa High School has been charged with sexually assaulting a 14-year-old boy.
Police have charged a 56-year-old Ottawa pastor with two counts each of sexual assault and sexual interference on a boy under the age of 16 in connection with a 2008 incident.
The incident was reported in February of this year. The boy victim was 14 at the time of the offence.
Stephen Amesse, described only as a reverend “at a church of the Archdiocese of Ottawa located in the west end of Ottawa,” was charged Thursday.
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