Former Yarmouth priest sentenced to 5 1/2 years for sex abuse

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The Chronicle-Herald

November 23, 2012 – 12:26pm By BRIAN MEDEL Yarmouth Bureau

An 83-year-old former Roman Catholic priest who sexually abused boys when he was younger has been sentenced to five and a half years in prison.

Albert LeBlanc, now married and living in Bouctouche, N.B., pleaded guilty in May to six counts of indecent assault. His guilty plea came at the beginning of what was expected to have been a weeklong trial in Yarmouth.

LeBlanc faced 50 counts but pleaded guilty to six charges, each of which related to a different male victim.

The offences occurred between Jan. 1, 1970, and Dec. 31, 1985 when LeBlanc lived in Yarmouth County, where he worked first as a priest and later, after he left the priesthood in 1975, as a probation officer.

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