CANADA
The Chronicle-Herald
January 5, 2012
By AARON BESWICK Truro Bureau
Philip Latimer spent Wednesday afternoon digesting what disgraced Roman Catholic Bishop Raymond Lahey’s sentence means for himself and other victims of sexual abuse.
Latimer, 50, alleges he was abused by a Catholic priest while a young boy in Havre Boucher, Antigonish County.
He said he worries that victims of sexual abuse who have not yet come forward will be deterred from doing so by seeing Lahey sentenced to time served plus two years probation and the recent overturning by the Nova Scotia Court of Appeal of Ernest Fenwick MacIntosh’s convictions on charges of gross indecency and indecent assault.
“These decisions will make young victims scared to come forward by showing them that if the guilty have enough money to hire a good legal team, they will be protected,” said Latimer. “I don’t call this a justice system. I call it a legal system.”
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