CANADA
The StarPhoenix
BY DAVE BATTAGELLO AND ANDREA HILL, POSTMEDIA NEWS, THE STARPHOENIX
AUGUST 7, 2014
A former Basilian priest and Catholic high school teacher found guilty of a lengthy history of abusing male students, including two in Saskatoon, died last week in Toronto at the age of 92.
William Hodgson (Hod) Marshall, pleaded guilty in 2013 to sexually assaulting two Saskatoon boys in 1959 and 1961. Two years earlier, he had pleaded guilty to 16 counts of indecent assault of minors and one count of sexual assault for incidents that occurred between 1952 and 1986 while he taught at high schools in Windsor, Toronto and Sudbury.
“I wouldn’t mind knowing where they’re burying him so I could go urinate on his grave,” said Tim Ryans of Saskatoon, who was “felt up” by Marshall while the priest was a physical education teacher at St. Paul’s High School. He came forward with his story after he heard of Marshall’s convictions in Ontario.
Ryans, now in his 60s, said he doesn’t dwell on the encounter much and made an effort to avoid Marshall throughout his high school years, but he knows other classmates who remain traumatized by Marshall’s advances.
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