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CHRIS DOUCETTE | QMI AGENCY
TORONTO — An east-end priest, already accused of sexual assaults involving several female parishioners, now faces more charges after another five women came forward with complaints, police said Wednesday.
Some of the latest assaults allegedly occurred in a funeral home.
Rev. Ioan Pop, 54, of the All Saints Romanian Orthodox Church was slapped with an additional five counts of sexual assault on Tuesday, police said.
Pop now faces a total of 13 sexual assault charges and one count of forcible confinement.
“It is alleged that he sexually assaulted women either in church or in a funeral home,” police said of the new charges.
Pop, who is considered an influential man within Scarborough’s Romanian Orthodox community, was initially arrested Sept. 11 and charged with one count of sexual assault after a woman alleged she had been sexually assaulted at All Saints a week earlier.
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