Raymond-Marie Lavoie, 70, was a teacher at the Seminaire St. Alphonse, in Ste.-Anne-de-Beaupre, just outside Quebec City, when the assaults are alleged to have taken place.
Lavoie was expected to enter a guilty plea Monday.
However, the Crown prosecutor said the defence asked for more time to continue working out a plea agreement.
The case was put off to January 31 for the preliminary hearing, but defence lawyer Serge Goulet told the judge his client could be back in court before that if a deal is reached.
Lavoie was first arrested in December 2009 and faces charges of sexual assault, indecent assault and gross indecency against a victim who was 12 years-old at the time of the alleged crimes.
Surete du Quebec launched an investigation and eventually found other alleged victims: all boarders at the college in the 1970s and 1980s, who were between the ages of 12 and 15 at the time.
Aside from the criminal accusations, Lavoie is facing a potential class-action lawsuit.
Priest charged with multiple sex-assault charges back in court in January
Raymond-Marie Lavoie, 70, was a teacher at the Seminaire St. Alphonse, in Ste.-Anne-de-Beaupre, just outside Quebec City, when the assaults are alleged to have taken place.
Lavoie was expected to enter a guilty plea Monday.
However, the Crown prosecutor said the defence asked for more time to continue working out a plea agreement.
The case was put off to January 31 for the preliminary hearing, but defence lawyer Serge Goulet told the judge his client could be back in court before that if a deal is reached.
Lavoie was first arrested in December 2009 and faces charges of sexual assault, indecent assault and gross indecency against a victim who was 12 years-old at the time of the alleged crimes.
Surete du Quebec launched an investigation and eventually found other alleged victims: all boarders at the college in the 1970s and 1980s, who were between the ages of 12 and 15 at the time.
Aside from the criminal accusations, Lavoie is facing a potential class-action lawsuit.
Those poor victims. They were fully anticipating the end of it all today with a guilty plea. Now this.
I just don’t understand this at all. Here’s a Roman Catholic priest hankering out a deal before he will publicly acknowledge his guilt. This is despicable.
Are the Redemptorists footing the bill for this fiasco? Are they the ones calling the shots here? are they the ones telling Lavoie’s lawyer ‘get the best pair of kid gloves for him that you can find before he enters a guilty plea”?
As a priest who has raped the souls of countless young lads, betrayed the trust of parents, brought disgrace to the priesthood and further scandal to the Church, Lavoie should be pleading for the most severe punishment on the books.