Fourth Alleged Victim Testifies in Sexual Assault Trial of Former Priest Gabriele Delbianco

By Neil Bowen
The Sarnia Observer
October 21, 2013

http://www.chathamdailynews.ca/2013/10/21/fourth-alleged-victim-testifies-in-sexual-assault-trial-of-former-priest-gabriele-delbianco

A woman in her 40s testified in the sexual assault trial of a former priest that she believed her teenage sexual encounters with him would lead to them becoming a couple.

The trial of former priest Gabriele DelBianco, 57, on 16 sexual offences involving four teenage girls during the 1980s heard testimony from the fourth woman Monday in Sarnia Superior court.

He has pleaded not guilty.

DelBianco led her to believe they would be a couple, testified the woman, after describing how she performed oral sex on the priest in a church.

In a very soothing voice DelBianco had asked the girl, who was in Grade 7 at the time, if she wanted to make him feel good, she said.

After the encounter he got her a cookie, she said.