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Windsor Star
Last Updated: May 14, 2014
A former Windsor priest has been sentenced to four years in prison and will spend the rest of his life on the sex offender registry.
Gabriele Del Bianco, 57, was sentenced Wednesday in a Sarnia court for three of 18 sex charges he initially faced for his abuse of young girls in the 1980s and early 1990s.
“I feel that we have all been robbed of so much joy,” one victim said Wednesday in court before her tormentor was sentenced. “Uncomplicated joy that comes from a world that makes sense. What Gabe has done doesn’t make sense. And, even more importantly, what God has allowed Gabe to do has left so many of us without faith.”
The trial began in October with four of Del Bianco’s alleged victims testifying in court.
Del Bianco was acquitted of sexual misconduct charges involving two women but found guilty for abusing the other two.
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