Ottawa Valley priest charged in sex assaults

CANADA
Ottawa Citizen

By Chloé Fedio, Ottawa Citizen March 1, 2012

An Ottawa Valley priest faces several sexual assaults charges against pre-teenage boys and one man that date back to 1970, Ontario Provincial Police said Wednesday.

Daniel Miller, 67, was charged with three counts each of gross indecency and indecent assault for offences that occurred between 1970 and 1980.

Miller was ordained priest in the Pembroke diocese in May 1969. He served the Roman Catholic church in Eganville, Arnprior, Deep River and Petawawa prior to 1999, said Bruce Pappin, spokesman for the Pembroke diocese.

Miller currently lives in a residence at Our Lady of Lourdes church in Pembroke but does not serve as a priest for that congregation, Pap-pin said. “He has not been in active pastoral duty for over a decade. He’s living in the rectory at Lourdes church,” Pap-pin said.

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