CANADA
Windsor Star
Sarah Sacheli
Jan 02, 2014
More than six decades after William Hodgson Marshall began sexually abusing male students, the former priest has lost his licence to teach.
The Ontario College of Teachers announced in December it has revoked Marshall’s credentials. The college began disciplinary proceedings against the retired teacher and principal after he pleaded guilty in 2011 to 16 counts of indecent assault of minors and one count of sexual assault for incidents that occurred between 1952 and 1986 while Marshall taught at Assumption and Holy Names in Windsor and other Catholic high schools in Toronto and Sudbury.
Marshall later pleaded guilty to further counts related to assaults on two boys in Saskatoon.
Marshall is 91 and is said to have cancer. He hasn’t taught in decades. But that shouldn’t preclude the college from going after his licence, said spokesman Brian Jamieson.
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