CANADA
CBC News
The Archdiocese of Ottawa has suspended a 76-year-old retired Roman Catholic priest facing charges related to the alleged sexual assault of a boy in the early 1970s.
Ottawa police arrested Jacques Faucher of Gatineau, Que., on Wednesday and charged him with gross indecency and indecent assault on a male. The incidents are alleged to have occurred in Ottawa between 1971 and 1973.
The complainant was seven years old in 1971, police said.
Terrance Prendergast, the Archbishop of Ottawa, said in a statement issued Thursday Faucher has been suspended from all ministry and prohibited from representing himself as a Catholic priest.
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