CANADA
CBC News
By Jeremy Eaton, CBC News Posted: Jul 18, 2016
A former Roman Catholic priest on Newfoundland’s west coast who pleaded guilty to abusing more than a dozen boys between the ages of eight and 13 has been granted full parole after serving just over a third of his sentence.
George Ansel Smith was sentenced in March 2013 to 11 years in jail, with credit for a year spent in custody, after pleading guilty to 23 counts of indecent assault, 7 counts of sexual assault and 8 counts of assault with intent.
The majority of his offences happened in communities around western Newfoundland between 1969 and 1989.
“Mr. Smith’s crimes are serious, involve more victims, and result in more convictions than any of the offenders from the Mount Cashel Orphanage cases,” said Supreme Court Judge William Goodridge at the time of sentencing.
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