SQLFusion - It\'s just a mistake Archbishop says

It's just a mistake, archbishop says

CJAD NewsTalk Radio 800 AM (Quebec)

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Fri, 2008-09-12 05:41.

Richard Deschamps

Montreal's Catholic Archbishop says a priest who molested a young girl and made innapropriate gestures to another -- is not a pedophile.

48-year-old Phillippe de Maupéou pleaded guilty to the charges and served 6 months in the community.

De Maupéou made headlines yesterday, after it was learned the church gave him $60 000 to pay for law school.

Cardinal Jean-Claude Turcotte says he's not a pedophile -- he just made a mistake.

Archdiocese gives pedophile priest...a law school grant

CJAD 800 AM

Thu, 2008-09-11 07:22.

Richard Deschamps

The Montreal Catholic archdiocese is handing 20-thousand dollars a year as a law school grant. to one of its priests who, earlier this year, was convicted of sexually assaulting an 8-year-old girl.

48-year-old Philippe de Maupeou was sentenced to six months in the community for his crime, for which he plead guilty. He was also found to have committed 'inappropriate gestures' toward another girl.

The chancellor of the archdiocese, Mgr. Michel Parent says, he's paid his debt to society, and he adds those who call for priests convicted of sexual assaults on children are 'hard-hearted'.

The priest in question is still with the archdiocese, but is no longer working with the public. He's going to study canon law at St. Paul University in Ottawa.

Priest pleads guilty to molesting girl

The Montreal Gazette (Quebec)

Tuesday, September 11, 2007

Philippe de Maupeou, an activist Montreal priest in Montreal's Plateau Mont Royal district, pleaded guilty yesterday to sexual touching of a girl under the age of 10 during a camping trip in the Lanaudière region in 2002.

De Maupeou, 47, entered his plea at the Joliette courthouse to one count of sexual touching. The crime carries no minimum sentence but a maximum of 10 years in prison, his lawyer, Yves Duceppe, said yesterday.

The incident occurred when de Maupeou, who was administrator of the Immaculée Conception parish, took children on an outing to a summer camp near St. Alphonse Rodriguez.

The girl only told her mother of the incident in 2006, her mother told police. De Maupeou was charged last November. The clergyman touched the girl's genitalia, Duceppe said.

De Maupeou is scheduled to be sentenced on Feb. 26. Duceppe noted that he has no prior convictions, is extremely remorseful and has undergone six months of therapy.

De Maupeou will remain a priest, but has been suspended from working in a congregation or a parish and will not be in contact with children or adults, auxiliary bishop of Montreal Anthony Mancini said yesterday. "But because he is a priest and we have a responsibility to care for him, he will be asked to continue to serve the church, but in a bureaucratic way, doing some work in one of our offices." © The Gazette (Montreal) 2007

Source: http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/news/story.html?id=b9bdcee3-298e-46b5-9b94-412f04619395

Priest charged with abuse

Plateau cleric accused of molesting girl at camp

Montreal Gazette

Published: Wednesday, November 22 2006

ALAN HUSTAK

An activist Roman Catholic priest in Montreal's Plateau Mont Royal district is to appear in court in Joliette on March 5 to answer charges he molested a girl who was under age 10 during a camping trip two years ago in the Lanaudiere region.

Philippe de Maupeou is a member of Communaute du Pain de Vie, a religious commune founded in France in 1976, which includes priests, families and their children who work with the poor. The group has been operating in Quebec since 1992.

De Maupeou, 46, has been suspended by the Montreal diocese pending the outcome of a full criminal investigation.

He is is not permitted to be unsupervised in the presence of children and can't live with his commune, housed in the former presbytery at Eglise de la Conception Immaculee at Papineau Ave. and Rachel Sts.

De Maupeou was the founding director of the Bande FM youth group.

Until recently, he was president of the committee of sacred art and religious heritage for the diocese, and was vice-president of La Fondation du patrimoine religieux du Quebec, the provincial body that oversees religious heritage properties.

The incident involving the girl is alleged to have happened in 2004, when de Maupeou, who was administrator of Immaculee Conception parish, took children on an outing to a summer camp near St. Alphonse Rodriguez, 60 kilometres north of Montreal.

The girl apparently waited until recently to tell her mother, who called the police.

ahustak@thegazette.canwest.com

Priest charged with abuse

Plateau cleric accused of molesting girl at camp

Montreal Gazette

ALAN HUSTAK

© The Gazette (Montreal) 2006