CANADA
London Free Press
By Neil Bowen, Sarnia Observer
Friday, October 18, 2013
In her early 20s a Catholic priest’s former lover accused him of preferring young teenage girls after learning she was pregnant, a Superior Court trial heard Friday.
The trial of former priest Gabriele DelBianco, 57, on 16 sexual offences involving four teenage girls during the 1980s, finished its third day Friday with testimony from a woman in her 40s.
During her early 20s, the woman said DelBianco fathered a child with her, but their romantic relationship had started when she was 15 or 16 and when he was a 29-year-old priest
He fondled her in his car, but they did not have sex until she was 20, she said.
During repeated encounters in the car, DelBianco had told her he could hug her all day, she said, adding she felt like the luckiest person because he had chosen her.
By the time she was 21, she and DelBianco had become a secret couple, she said, noting she stayed at his church residence three to five times weekly.
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