CANADA
Toronto Star
By:Jesse McLean Investigative News reporter, Published on Tue Mar 12 2013
LA MOTTE, QUE.—Inside Épicerie Chez Flo, the convenience store in the heart of this village of 440 people, the topic of conversation has been steady for weeks.
“The pope. The pope. Then the temperature, maybe. Then the pope,” one of the store’s owners, Lise Breault, said.
But as residents proudly talk of their native son, Cardinal Marc Ouellet, few mention his younger brother Paul.
“I don’t think the family will want to discuss that,” Lise’s husband, Florian, warned a journalist.
In 2009, Paul Ouellet was convicted of sexual abuse of two underage girls during the 1980s. He pleaded guilty to having improper sexual relationships with the girls when they were reportedly as young as 13 and 14. He was in his late 30s and early 40s. He was sentenced to 15 months of community detention.
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