CANADA
Metro
By Luke Simcoe
Metro Windsor
When the verdict came down in the trial of a former Windsor priest who abused 19 people dating back to the 1950s, Brenda Brunelle could no longer contain her emotion.
“Mercy for an old man?” she shouted at the departing judge. “What about the young children, what about their mercy?”
Rev. William Hodgson Marshall pleaded guilty Monday to abusing two young boys in Saskatchewan in the 1950s and 60s. He is currently on parole after being convicted of sexually abusing children while teaching at schools in Windsor, Toronto and Sudbury.
The latest charges earned the 90-year-old former priest six months of house arrest followed by a lengthy probation.
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