CANADA
CBC News
A former Winnipeg priest has been formally defrocked from the Catholic Church after he plead guilty to sex assault earlier this week.
Ronald Léger, the former head of Holy Family Parish and founder of Teen Stop Jeunesse, pleaded guilty to three counts of sexual assault and one count of sexual interference on July 13.
On Thursday, the Archdiocese of St. Boniface stripped Ronald Léger of his rights to represent the ministry.
“You are definitively no longer authorized to exercise a public ministry in our Archdiocese of Saint Boniface,” Albert LeGatt, the Archbishop of St. Boniface, said in a release.
The charges brought against the 77-year-old relate back to a series of incidents that occurred between 1984 and 2004. The interference charge was leveled against Léger because one of the victims was under the age of 16.
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