CANADA
Brandon Sun
By: Steve Lambert, The Canadian Press
Monday, Jun. 10, 2013
WINNIPEG – A man who was an altar boy years ago testified Monday that a cleric in the Orthodox Church in America exposed himself and asked to be touched sexually in the small house attached to his church.
“I just started feeling really uncomfortable … disgusted,” the man, who cannot be identified under a court-ordered publication ban, said on the first day of Seraphim Storheim’s trial.
“To this day, it really, really bothers me.”
Storheim, who became the church’s Canadian archbishop, pleaded not guilty to two charges of repeated sexual assaults against the man and his brother when they were pre-teens in the summer of 1985.
The boys were from another province and had been sent by their single mother to live and work with Storheim, court was told.
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