Ottawa priest charged with sex offences on young boy

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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