CANADA
CBC News
An 83-year-old former Roman Catholic priest, who pleaded guilty to molesting six children decades ago, was sentenced to five and half years in prison in a Yarmouth court on Friday.
Albert LeBlanc pleaded guilty to six counts of indecent assault in May. Some of the crimes date back to when LeBlanc was a priest in Yarmouth County in the 1970s.
Judge Jim Burrill accepted the Crown and defence’s joint sentencing recommendation.
The Crown said at least one case of abuse started when the boy was only 8-years-old. The court heard how Leblanc would entice his underage victims with alcohol and allow them to drive when they were only 13.
Leblanc’s victims have filed victim impact statements, but none of them wished to read them aloud in court Friday.
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