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Waterloo Region Record
By Catherine Thompson
A retired Anglican priest from Cambridge faces at least four years in federal prison for sex offences dating back almost 30 years.
Rev. George Ferris, 66, is to be sentenced today for two charges of sexual assault against two separate complainants. He was convicted in November of those offences.
On Tuesday, Ferris was sentenced to four years in prison for two counts of sexual assault and one count of sexual exploitation in connection with offences that took place in Brant County between 1983 and 1989, when he served at St. James’ Anglican Church in Paris, Ont.
At Ferris’ trial in October on those charges, Chris Morrison, 42, of Paris, Ont., testified he was molested by Ferris, who was his priest, as a teenager over several years, in a situation that escalated from embraces to oral sex and two instances of actual and attempted anal sex, the Brantford Expositor reports. The court was also told the witness asked Ferris for “hush” money in 2006 and received $5,000 deposited in his bank account.
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