CANADA
Huffington Post
By Steve Lambert, The Canadian Press
WINNIPEG – An Orthodox archbishop was convicted Friday of sexually assaulting an altar boy 29 years ago by a judge who ruled Seraphim Kenneth Storheim’s denials were “nonsensical.”
“I do not believe the testimony of the accused,” Court of Queen’s Bench Justice Christopher Mainella said in an oral decision that lasted for two hours.
“The accused was not credible about his behaviour. He … provided nonsensical answers and was not consistent in his version of events.”
Storheim, who became the top Canadian cleric for the Orthodox Church in America, was accused of sexually assaulting two brothers in the summer of 1985, when he was a priest in Winnipeg. The brothers, whose identities are protected by a publication ban, lived with Storheim for brief periods, on separate occasions, while they worked as altar boys.
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