"I Ask for Forgiveness': Ottawa Priest Makes Courtroom Apology for Molesting Boys

By Joe Lofaro
Sudbury Star
October 4, 2016

http://www.thesudburystar.com/2016/10/04/i-ask-for-forgiveness-ottawa-priest-makes-courtroom-apology-for-molesting-boys

A former Ottawa priest convicted of molesting three boys more than 40 years ago turned to face his victims and say, for the first time, that he was sorry for what he did, but not before two of them walked out of the courtroom.

Jacques Faucher — who turned 80 last week — appeared to deliver an offhand and long-winded apology at his sentencing hearing Tuesday that acknowledged the “scandal” he caused within the Catholic Church.

The former priest was convicted of six counts of indecent assault and gross indecency on boys aged nine to 13 from the former Notre-Dame-des-Anges parish near Tunney’s Pasture. The crimes were committed from 1969 to 1974.

The victims all told a similar story: Faucher would invite the boys to sit on his knee in private to pray or to watch hockey. Court heard that he admitted to police that he had been sexually excited in these encounters, and that he sometimes ejaculated in his pants.