July 5, 1986
11.16 EDT
National general news

Priest-Charged 

CORNWALL,  Ont. (CP)
A 49-year-old Roman Catholic priest is to appear in
provincial court Monday on a total of 16 six counts of indecent
assault and gross indecency.

Rev. Gilles Deslauriers, whose address is given as a Catholic
religious retreat at Lac Nominingue, near Mont Laurier, Que.,
turned himself in Friday after police announced a warrant had
been issued for his arrest.

 Deslauriers is charged with eight counts of indecent assault
and eight counts of gross indecency relating to a six-year
period ending in 1984. The charges follow a six-week
investigation and involved young men aged 17 to 21 at that time
when Deslauriers was a priest at the Nativity Parish Roman
Catholic Church in Cornwall. 

He is the second Eastern Ontario priest to face similar
charges in the last month.

Rev. Dale Crampton, 50, of Nepean, Ont. - just outside Ottawa
-appeared in court June 20 charged with nine counts of
indecent assault involving five boys during a four-year period
ending in 1980. He has been remanded for trial Aug. 14.

Cornwall Bishop Eugene LaRocque, head of the Alexandria-
Cornwall diocese, was not available for comment Friday and
has previously refused all comment on Deslauriers.

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