Ex-priest faces more abuse accusations from Native victims

Wednesday, November 9, 2011  

A former Anglican priest who has been convicted of more than 50 charges of child sex abuse is being accused by 24 more victims from First Nations in Ontario and Manitoba.

Ralph Rowe, who was a leader of the Boy Scouts of Canada, served at churches on 20 reserves. He was convicted in 1994, in 2006 and again in 2009 of abusing Native boys.

But some of the post-1994 charges were dismissed under a plea deal that bars Rowe from being convicted in certain cases. That has Native advocates angry about a man who may have abused upwards of 500 Native boys.

“These men definitely want to go to trial,” Nishnawbe Aski Nation Deputy Grand Chief Mike Metatawabin. told The Toronto Sun. “They want to face Rowe.”

Rowe, 72, is believed to be living in British Columbia.

Get the Story:
24 more native men come forward in Boy Scout leader’s sex abuse case (The Toronto Star 11/9)

Ex-priest accused of abusing as many as 500 Native boys (10/24)