CANADA
The London Free Press
By Jane Sims, The London Free Press
Thursday, February 2, 2017
A preliminary hearing has been set for July for an award-winning former King’s University College lecturer and retired Anglican priest charged in a historic sexual assault case.
David Norton, 71, is charged with seven counts of indecent assault, two counts of sexual assault and one count of sexual interference in connection to allegations from 1977 to 1995 involving First Nations boys.
Norton was charged in November 2015. His Ontario Court preliminary hearing is set for one-and-a-half days on July 6 and 7.
The dates were confirmed in court on Thursday morning.
In 1977, Norton was the priest at St. Andrew’s Anglican Church at Chippewas of the Thames First Nation.
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