Tag Archives: Victim Impact Statement

“Did former Darlington rapist priest Michael Higginbottom act alone?” & related article

Posted on April 15, 2017 by Sylvia
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The Northern Echo 14 April 2017 SADISTIC: Catholic priest and child abuser Michael Higginbottom “CRUEL and sadistic” Catholic priest Michael Higginbottom was jailed for 17 years on Thursday. Former Darlington parish priest Higginbottom repeatedly raped a boy almost 40 years … Continue reading →

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Clergy abuse victim furious over diocesan ‘stonewalling’

Posted on October 11, 2016 by Sylvia
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Ottawa Citizen October 10, 2016 8:06 pm A woman scarred by clergy sex abuse is furious that the Archdiocese of Ottawa will not tell her if or when it will seek to defrock the Catholic priest who preyed upon her … Continue reading →

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Brian Lucy, 67, of Gananoque sentenced to five years in prison on child sex charges

Posted on October 3, 2015 by Sylvia
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The Gananoque Reporter Friday, October 2, 2015 5:21:56 EDT PM By Wayne Lowrie, Gananoque Reporter A handcuffed Brian Lucy is led from a police van to Brockville jail after being sentenced to five years in prison for indecent assault and … Continue reading →

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Blame it on alcohol?

Posted on December 30, 2014 by Sylvia
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Today was a sentencing hearing only for clerical Oblate molester Father Omer Desjardins.  Judge Byron Wright reserved his decision re sentencing.  The Crown has asked for an 18 month sentence.  Defence lawyer George Green has asked for a conditional sentence. … Continue reading →

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Sexual assault by priest haunts victim

Posted on December 30, 2014 by Sylvia
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The Star Phoenix (Saskatoon, Sask.) December 30, 2014 7:26 PM By Hannah Spray, The StarPhoenix  Omer Desjardins was in Provincial Court in Saskatoon being sentenced for a 1978 sexual assault of a 10 year old girl, December 30, 2014. Photograph … Continue reading →

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Victims of ex-Catholic priest reveal torment

Posted on August 23, 2014 by Sylvia
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The Newcastle Herald (Australia) Aug. 22, 2014, 10:30 p.m. By JOANNE McCARTHY OFFENDER: Defrocked Catholic priest John Denham is being sentenced after pleading guilty to 25 child sex charges. A HUNTER man wept in a courtroom on Friday as he … Continue reading →

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Pray that justice is done

Posted on May 28, 2014 by Sylvia
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The sex abuse trial of Eric Dejaeger. a Belgian-born Oblate who is a previously convicted child molester and ex-priest is drawing to a close in Iqaluit, Nunavut. Defence and Crown have presented closing submissions.  I get the impression that there … Continue reading →

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Rape victim unwilling to face Denham again

Posted on February 27, 2014 by Sylvia
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The Newcastle Herald Feb. 27, 2014, 10:30 p.m. By JOANNE McCARTHY ABUSE: Former priest John Denham has admitted to 25 child sex charges. One victim believes there are others who won’t come forward. A HUNTER man who was raped by … Continue reading →

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Victim Impact Statement by mother whose sons were sexually abused by Father Daniel Miller

Posted on October 23, 2013 by Sylvia
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Victim Impact Statement [Mother whose sons were sexually abused by Father Dan Miller ] I am completing this statement both as a mother who has had to deal with the horrible truth that her children were sexually abused by someone I trusted and … Continue reading →

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Man ‘on the run’ from paedophile priest

Posted on October 12, 2013 by Sylvia
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kynews.com.au Updated: 17:37, Wednesday October 9, 2013 One of the victims of former priest David Edwin Rapson once tried to flee his Victorian school fearing further abuse, and says he hasn’t stopped running in the two decades since. Rapson, 60, … Continue reading →

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