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Wednesday January 28, 2009

Church of Downtown Montreal:

Self-described pastor gets five years in prison for sex with 10-year-old ‘wife’

A self-described pastor who hoped his “marriage” to a 10-year-old girl he took to bed would convince a judge to acquit him on a sexual assault charge was sentenced to five years in prison on Monday.

The 57-year-old head of the now defunct Church of Downtown Montreal s currently on trial in another case involving a 16-year-old girl and could face additional jail time if convicted.

Thursday October 16, 2008

Pastor who married girl, 10, guilty of sexual assault

A self-proclaimed pastor who argued his sexual relations with an underage girl were legal because he married her in the church that he invented when she was 10, has been found guilty of sexual assault of a minor.

The judge threw out Cormier’s “marriage” defence in June, saying there was no evidence of a marriage and the marriage certificate Cormier presented was a fake.

Saturday December 8, 2007

Church of Downtown Montreal • Daniel Cormier:

‘Wife’ balks at being in court with minister

A teenager delayed a court hearing for hours yesterday because she was afraid of facing a man three times her age who claims to have married her when she was 10.