CANADA
CBC News
Former Gatineau priest Jacques Faucher has been sentenced to 12 months house arrest and 18 months probation for sexually assaulting three choir boys in the 1970s.
Justice Pierre Roger delivered the sentence in an Ottawa courtroom Thursday.
During the sentencing the judge cited a psychiatric report showing Faucher no longer had a sex drive.
Faucher had retired as a Roman Catholic priest in 2013 when Ottawa police laid 14 charges of indecent assault and gross indecency against him. The offences were alleged to have involved five victims and occurred between 1969 and 1974 in Ottawa.
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