Former priest pleads guilty to 17 sex charges

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Former priest pleads guilty to 17 sex charges

Source: CBC News

Former priest and teacher William Hodgson Marshall pleaded guilty in a Windsor, Ont., court to 17 sex assault charges for crimes he committed against children in Toronto, Windsor, and Sudbury dating back to the 1950s.

The victims include six from Windsor, six from Sudbury, one from Cambridge, and another four assaults took place in Toronto. The assaults occured over more than three decades, starting in 1952.

Marshall, 88, faces charges of indecent assault perpetrated on 16 boys and one girl, related to acts of fondling, fellatio, and masturbation.

Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/windsor/story/2011/06/08/wdr-hodgson-pleads-guilty.html

CBC also has this story about a convicted sex offender living near a Catholic elementary school. And yesterday, a retired priest living near San Francisco .

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