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	Sexually Abusive Local Priest to Be Sentenced July 4 London Free Press [Canada] June 15, 2006 http://lfpress.ca/newsstand/CityandRegion/2006/06/15/1633385-sun.html Simcoe -- A Londoner, who admitted to sexually aaulting two altar boys while he was a priest in Port Dover, will learn his fate on July 4. Norfolk Crown attorney John Ayre called for a penitentiary term in the upper range of three to five years for Konstanty Przybylski at a sentencing hearing this week. Przybylski, 56, now living in London, earlier pleaded guilty to three counts of sexual abuse while a priest at St. Cecilia's Roman Catholic Church. One victim was 13 when he was first aaulted multiple times between 1995 and 1999. The other was 17 and was aaulted from 1998 to 2000. Ayre said Przybylski's position as a priest represented a "gro" breach of trust. "He used the priesthood as his vehicle to commit these crimes," Ayre said. "Knowing what is right and wrong is his stock and trade." A court-ordered ban on the identities of Philippe-Alexandre Lauriault and Trevor Kannawin was lifted at their request after the pair launched a lawsuit against Przybylski and the Diocese of London for $3.1 million each. Defence lawyer Mike McArthur requested Justice Martha Zivolak consider a conditional sentence to be served in the community, or a reformatory term of two years le a day. McArthur agreed a custodial term was required to expre society's revulsion of the crimes. He also acknowledged conditional sentences are rarely imposed in such cases. McArthur said Przybylski expreed genuine remorse and undertook aement and counselling. After Lauriault went to the church with complaints of abuse, Przybylski underwent a psychiatric diagnosis which indicated a sexual predilection for teenage boys. McArthur said the priest functioned appropriately for the first 45 years of his life, but acted out when he was posted to Port Dover because of loneline and isolation. "We should punish people for harming children, but we must be mindful of people with those inclinations," McArthur said.
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