CANADA
Calgary Herald
BY CLARA HO, CALGARY HERALD APRIL 10, 2014
A former pastor who waged a lengthy battle with the province in the 1980s over the licensing of his privately run school is back before the courts, this time to face charges in connection with the historical sex assault of two students.
Thomas Larry Jones, 69, who now lives in Carstairs, has been charged with indecent assault of a female, three counts of gross indecency, four counts of sexual assault, two counts of sexual interference and two counts of sexual exploitation.
Calgary police allege the abuse of one of the victims began in 1979, when the girl was five, and continued until she was 15. The abuse of a second girl began in 1986 when she was nine, and continued until she was 18, police said.
At the time, Jones was the pastor of the Western Baptist Church in the northwest community of Montgomery and also ran his own school, the Western Baptist Academy, out of the church basement.
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