CANADA
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JOE LOFARO, POSTMEDIA NETWORK
Nov 15, 2016
OTTAWA – More than a decade before the Archdiocese of Ottawa told Jacques Faucher he could no longer be a priest, it paid tens of thousands of dollars to a former altar boy who had accused the reverend of molesting him.
Faucher was convicted in March of historical sex offences against three other children, but newly obtained documents by the Ottawa Sun show the diocese wrote a $50,000 cheque to a former altar boy when he was an adult in 1998, more than a year after he told the church about the alleged sexual abuse.
The payment was made on the condition he keep details of the out-of-court settlement confidential.
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