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MEGAN GILLIS | QMI AGENCY
OTTAWA — A dead and defrocked Catholic priest accused of raping an altar boy decades ago preyed on him as a family member, not a man of the cloth, the archdiocese of Ottawa said Tuesday.
But the lawyer for the victim, “John,” says the brutal abuse happened in the context of their faith and is angry that the diocese revealed his client is a relative of Jean Gravel’s.
“They did it in a vindictive way to punish him for coming forward, I believe,” Robert Talach said.
“I’m really disappointed in the archdiocese.”
Monsignor Kevin Beach was reacting to reports about a lawsuit filed against the archdiocese over abuse the man says he suffered from age eight to 15 in the 1950s and 1960s.
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