CANADA
Times Colonist
Jeff Bell , Times Colonist December 15, 2012
Father Phil Jacobs is scheduled to take the stand next week as his trial continues on charges of sexual assault, sexual interference with a person under 14 and sexual touching.
The charges stem from incidents involving three youths that allegedly occurred between September 1996 and June 2001. The trial began Monday in B.C. Supreme Court.
Defence lawyer Chris Considine said Jacobs and at least two other people are likely to testify for the defence from Monday to Wednesday.
Jacobs, 63, was parish priest at St. Joseph the Worker Catholic Church from 1997 to 2002, a post he left when it became known that he had been dismissed from a Columbus, Ohio, church a number of years before over allegations of inappropriate conduct with teenage boys. No criminal charges or civil suits resulted.
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