ONTARIO (CANADA)
CBC News
March 25, 2019
By Steve Rukavina
A Montreal priest who sexually abused two boys has been sentenced to eight years in prison.
Quebec court Judge Patricia Compagnone handed down the sentence to Brian Boucher Monday, based on a joint recommendation from the Crown and the defence.
Boucher was handcuffed in the courtroom and led away by a constable.
He pleaded guilty to abusing one of the boys in January, just a few weeks after he was found guilty of abusing the other one.
Boucher has worked at 10 churches in Montreal over the last two decades.
He was found guilty of taking the first victim to motels and sexually assaulting him while Boucher worked as a priest in LaSalle in the 1990s.
The victim was just 11 when the abuse began. It continued for two years.
He was also found guilty of sexually assaulting the second victim in the rectory of a church he worked at in the town of Mount Royal starting in 2008.
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