CANADA
Kingston Whig-Standard
By Sue Yanagisawa, Kingston Whig-Standard
Wednesday, August 3, 2016
The man accusing a retired Roman Catholic priest of sexually molesting him as child wanted Superior Court Justice Wolfram Tausendfreund to know, Wednesday, that he never wanted to be sitting where he was sitting in the courtroom.
Asked by assistant Crown attorney Gerard Laarhuis what he was feeling when he bolted from the witness stand a day earlier, the 41-year-old said “frustration, having to be up here talking about my life in front of so many people I don’t know.
“Having them looking at me, smiling at me, winking at me.”
He spent the better part of two days this week testifying at the trial of 68-year-old Robyn Q. Gwyn, who stands accused on two counts of sexually assaulting the complainant when he was an adolescent and young teen from the mid-1980s into the early 1990s; touching him when he was under 14 for a sexual purpose; sexually exploiting a position of trust; and invitation to sexual touching.
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