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CP NewsAlert: ex-priest acquitted of assaulting girl at residential school

By The Canadian Press on March 30, 2023.

Victoria McIntosh holds a childhood jacket that her grandmother made for her that she wasn't able to bring with her to residential school, following her testimony at the Law Courts building in Winnipeg, Tuesday, March 7, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Brittany Hobson

WINNIPEG – A Winnipeg judge has acquitted a now-retired 93-year-old priest of assault after a residential school survivor accused him of forcing himself on her more than 50 years ago.

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