Catholic priest charged with 25-year-old sexual assault

CANADA
TB Newswatch

By Leith Dunick, tbnewswatch.com

A Catholic priest is facing several sexual assault charges dating to alleged offences against a teenaged male victim between 1987 and 1989.

Now 56, Roger Pronovost was assigned to St. John the Baptist Church in Longlac, Ont. at the time of the incidents.

The suspect faces two counts of sexual assault and a third charge of sexual exploitation.

None of the charges has been proven in a court of law.

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