Local priest charged

Cornwall Standard Freeholder

15 September 2007

A Catholic priest is facing charges he sexually assaulted a young boy in the 1950s.

Police Friday charged Rev. Lucien Lussier, 84, with three counts of indecent assault on a male.

The incidents are alleged to have occurred when the complainant, then a young teen boy, visited the priest in Alexandria between 1954 and 1960.

Lussier did not return calls made to his Cornwall home Friday afternoon, but the Ottawa Sun reported the priest proclaimed his innocence when contacted by a reporter.

The police began investigating the allegations in August and Lussier was charged Sept. 11. He will appear in court in Alexandria on Nov. 7.

Two members of The Victims Group at the Cornwall Public Inquiry have alleged in affidavits they were assaulted by Lussier.

No charges have ever been laid in either of those two cases.

Lussier has served at several parishes in eastern Ontario. At the time of the alleged offences, he is believed to have been living and working at Fatima Retreat House in Alexandria. He went on to serve in parishes in Curry Hill, Glen Robertson, Martintown, Dalkeith and Moose Creek. Lussier is retired and lives in Cornwall.

Ont. priest charged half a century after alleged sexual assaults on teen

CBC.caFri Sep 14, 11:09 AM

OTTAWA (CBC) - A priest in eastern Ontario has been accused of sexually assaulting a teenage boy more than 50 years after the first of the alleged incidents took place.

. Lucien Lussier, 84, is to appear in court in Alexandria, Ont., on Nov. 7 to face three charges of indecent assault on a male that were laid Tuesday, said an Ontario Provincial Police news release.

He has been released with conditions.

Police began investigating in August after the victim complained.

He said he was assaulted while visiting Lussier between 1954 and 1960, when he was a young teenage boy, the release said.

OPP Charge Priest for Historical Sexual Assault Criminal Investigation Branch Press Release 14 September 2007 (Alexandria, Ontario) - The Ontario Provincial Police, SDG OPP Crime Unit have charged an 84-year-old Priest, for incidents that occurred in Alexandria and area, between 1954 and 1960. In August 2007, the SDG OPP Crime Unit began an investigation into a complaint that Father Lucien Lussier had sexually assaulted a then, young teen boy, while he was visiting Lussier in Alexandria, Ontario.

On September 11th, 2007, Lussier was charged with three counts of indecent assault-male. Lussier was released on an undertaking and is scheduled to appear in Alexandria court on November 7th, 2007.