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…