CANADA
The Chronicle-Herald
YARMOUTH — An 83-year-old former Roman Catholic priest who sexually abused boys when he was younger used a doctor’s note to say he could not travel to Yarmouth on Friday to be sentenced.
Albert LeBlanc, now married and living in Bouctouche, N.B., pleaded guilty in May to six counts of indecent assault. His guilty plea came at the beginning of what was expected to have been a weeklong trial in Yarmouth.
LeBlanc faced 50 counts but pleaded guilty to six charges, each of which related to a different male victim.
In Yarmouth provincial court Friday, Judge Jim Burrill said the court received a note from LeBlanc’s doctor concerning his medical condition.
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