Lawsuits launched against jailed priest

CANADA
CTV

Emily Senger, ctvtoronto.ca

Date: Wednesday Mar. 28, 2012

Four Sudbury men are launching civil lawsuits against a priest and former Catholic schoolteacher who has already pleaded guilty to multiple counts of sexual assault.

Father William Hodgson Marshall, who is now approaching his 90s, is currently serving a two-year prison term for the abuse of 17 young people between the 1950s and 1980s, crimes to which he pleaded guilty.

At least one of those incidents of abuse occurred at St. Michael’s College School in Toronto in the 1950s.

On Wednesday, four more men stepped forward at a press conference in Sudbury, alleging abuse at the hands of the man who was their Grade 9 teacher at St. Charles College in Sudbury in the ’60s.

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