CANADA
The Square
(MISSISSAUGA, ON) – The OPP have charged a 75 year-old former Catholic priest with several sex offences after conducting an historical sexual assault investigation in the Haldimand County and Niagara Region areas.
Over the past several months police have been investigating a series of sexual assaults which had occurred between 1977 and 1982. They involved a then 10 year-old and 14 year-old boys. The assaults occurred at locations in Niagara Region, Haldimand County, and the United States.
As a result, Donald Grecco, 75, of Peel Region, has been charged with two counts each of Gross Indecency and Indecent Assault on a Male. Grecco will appear in Provincial Court in Cayuga on December 8, at 2:00 pm.
The incidents occurred while Grecco was a priest at St Stephen’s Roman Catholic Church, in Cayuga, at St Kevin’s Roman Catholic Church, in Welland, and at St Thomas More Roman Catholic Church, in Niagara Falls.
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