CANADA
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By Megan Gillis, QMI Agency
OTTAWA – The Crown is seeking six months behind bars for an 81-year-old priest who admitted Thursday to molesting a 16-year-old boy who was his student four decades ago.
Father John James Kenneth O’Keefe pleaded guilty to indecent assault on a male. He’s expected to be sentenced on Thursday afternoon.
The victim was a Grade 11 student at at St. Pius High School in the fall term of 1974 when he had a fight with his parents and went to his homeroom teacher, O’Keefe – who told students they could talk to him any time – for help.
They went to O’Keefe’s bachelor apartment, where there was only one bed so the victim said he’d sleep on the floor. O’Keefe told him not to be foolish.
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