ONTARIO (CANADA)
Welland Tribune
January 18, 2021
By Kris Dubé
https://www.wellandtribune.ca/news/niagara-region/2021/01/18/catholic-church-protestor-and-sex-abuse-victim-william-osullivan-marching-to-parliament.html
William O’Sullivan wants give a “voice to the voiceless” by walking across a large portion of the province to raise awareness about child abuse within the Catholic Church.
The 50-year-old St. Catharines resident who grew up in Welland has spent more than two years in front of Parish Community of St. Kevin on Niagara Street in Welland to talk about what happened to him between the ages of nine and 12 at the hands of former priest Donald Grecco.
In October 2017, Grecco received an 18-month sentence for sexually abusing three boys between 1975 and 1982. It was his second conviction for sexually abusing children; his total number of known victims is six.
Six months later, Grecco was granted an early release from the Central North Correctional Centre.
Previously in 2010, he pleaded guilty to sexually molesting three former altar boys between 1978 and 1986 while a parish priest in Cayuga and later in Welland.
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