MONTREAL (CANADA)
The Canadian Press
Nov.. 25, 2019
By Sidhartha Banerjee
Montreal’s archdiocese enlisted a former Quebec Superior Court justice on Monday to investigate the case of a priest found guilty of sexually abusing two boys.
Pepita G. Capriolo will conduct the investigation into Rev. Brian Boucher, a Catholic priest who was sentenced in March to eight years behind bars.
The archbishop said the recently retired judge will examine how the church handled complaints and concerns about Boucher.
“One of the issues concerning Brian Boucher is there were people who came to talk about the problem … what’s the story about who knew what, when?” Archbishop Christian Lepine said in an interview.
Following a trial, Boucher was convicted in January 2019 of sexually assaulting one of the victims. In the second case, he pleaded guilty to sex-related charges as a trial was set to begin just under two weeks later.
Boucher worked in 10 Montreal-area churches between 1985 and 2015.
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