Report says:
Police have once again arrested a former Windsor priest already facing 22 previous sex crime charges.
Chatham-Kent police said the new charges against Linus Bastien, 86, who was a priest in Windsor and the surrounding region from 1951-97, are also for “historical sexually based offenses.”
Police said the sex crimes occurred between 1963-70 while Bastien was the priest at St. Charles Parish in the village of Stephenson, in the former Township of Tilbury East.
Bastien, who lives in Chatham, was arrested Wednesday then released from custody until a January court appearance.
Police gave no other information about the case, including the number of new charges.
Bastien was already facing 22 sex crime charges for alleged acts at other churches.
In January, LaSalle police laid 18 charges against him, including indecent assault, gross indecency, sexual assault and sexual interference following complaints from seven victims.
Those alleged crimes occurred from 1970-77 and 1988-89 when Bastien was serving at St. Paul’s Catholic Church in LaSalle and St. Joachim Parish in Lakeshore.
The alleged victims were students at the former St. Paul’s school and St. Ambroise school.
Before that, provincial police laid four charges against Bastien for allegedly abusing two altar boys in 1978 at St. Mary’s Parish in Maidstone.
In that case, he was charged with two counts of indecent assault and two counts of gross indecency.Source from Windorstar
