CANADA
Times Colonist
JEFF BELL / TIMES COLONIST
JULY 19, 2013
Philip Jacobs is scheduled to be sentenced Sept. 4 for deliberately touching a boy between the age of 14 and 18 for a sexual purpose, a crime committed while Jacobs was serving as a Catholic priest in Victoria
Jacobs, 63, was the subject of a sentencing hearing Friday. He had been found guilty on a single charge in late February by B.C. Supreme Court Justice Miriam Gropper, and acquitted on three others that included one count of sexual assault and two of sexually touching a person under 14.
He faced a maximum penalty of five years in prison.
Crown prosecutor Clare Jennings called for a jail term of four to six months for Jacobs followed by at least two years of probation. Defence lawyer Chris Considine said Jacobs should be given a conditional sentence, to be served in the community.
The charges brought against Jacobs were for alleged actions during his time at St. Joseph the Worker Church in Saanich, where he was parish priest from 1997 to 2002. His tenure there followed two years at St. Rose of Lima Church in Sooke.
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