CANADA
CBC News
By Katie Nicholson, CBC News Posted: Nov 16, 2016
A priest convicted of sexual assault is seeking bail following his October arrest on eight new charges involving the alleged sexual abuse of four men.
Ron Léger had just been granted day parole when Winnipeg police took him into custody Oct. 19.
Léger was sentenced to two years in jail in February 2016 for sexually assaulting three men who were youths at the time the abuse began.
The new charges were laid after four more men came forward to police with similar allegations that they were abused after meeting the priest at a youth centre. Léger ran a number of teen drop-in centres from the 1970s to the mid-90s, including Teen Stop Jeunesse and Ron’s Drop-in Centre.
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