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	Ex-Rev Gets 1 to 3 Yrs. In Molest of a Troubled Teen By Barbara Ross New York Daily News October 19, 2006 http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/463194p-389684c.html A defrocked Episcopal priest who molested a teenage boy in Central Park and at a private school where he worked was sentenced to one to three years in prison yesterday - but not before the victim's mother blasted him. "Bruce Jacques molested my son, an emotionally disturbed 16-year-old," the mother said, describing the "pain and depression" that resulted for her and her child. The woman, whose name is being withheld to protect her son, said she had searched for a long time to find a school where her son would be comfortable. "I thought he would be safe there," she said, referring to the Robert Louis Stevenson School on the upper West Side. Instead, she said, Jacques, 57, "took advantage of my son's grief" three weeks after the boy's grandfather died - sexually molesting the teenager at school and again hours later in Central Park. Assistant District Attorney Kerry O'Connell said, "An insatiable lust for young teens places [Jacques] here today." O'Connell said that after Jacques was arrested, she heard of close to a dozen other victims whom he allegedly had molested over the past 20 years. But none came forward in time for him to be charged with more crimes. Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Rena Uviller said she was "taken aback by the audacity" of Jacques telling a probation officer that last year's sex with the teen had been consensual. Uviller sentenced Jacques to serve one to three years, saying she agreed with prosecutors that it was important to spare the victim from having to testify. Jacques was stripped of his priestly collar a decade ago after allegedly attempting to have sex with a 13-year-old boy in Connecticut. He fled to Malaysia late last year and later was caught trying to sneak back into the U.S. via Canada.
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