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Saturday April 19, 2008
Royden Wood:
Pastor guilty: Bizarre abuse trial ruling stuns accused
Superior Court Justice Lynda Templeton ruled yesterday former pastor Royden Wood was guilty of 12 of 13 charges. They included nine involving physical assaults on three boys, members of the conservative church’s alternative school from 1985 to 1987, and three sex-related charges involving two female congregants.
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Monday April 7, 2008
Royden Wood:
Money corrupts, former pastor accused of breast-fondling female parishioners says
Lawsuits — not assaults and sex crimes — are at the core of his criminal charges, the former senior pastor of a defunct Baptist church says.
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Monday March 24, 2008
Royden Wood:
Pastor back behind bars
Royden Wood, 57, the former pastor of the now-defunct Ambassador Baptist Church, was arrested Tuesday and charged with two counts of breaching his bail conditions.
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Thursday March 6, 2008
Royden Wood:
Church affection program allegedly included spouse sharing
“I was not pleased that there were no spousal limitations set,” the woman said, adding there were no restrictions on other women kissing her husband on the mouth or sitting on his lap or holding hands.
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Saturday February 23, 2008
Royden Wood:
Witness testifies former pastor Roy Wood very much in charge at church
Superior Court Justice Lynda Templeton heard from the woman who testified to a range of activities at the church while she was a long-term member.
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Friday February 22, 2008
Royden Wood:
Royden Wood trial: Breast fondling greeting recalled
When they attended other churches, one said, it was “nice to have someone not come up and undo your bra or comment on your breast size.”
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Royden Wood:
Pastor denies abuse claims
It was not the “affection program” former Ambassador Church member Richard Leblanc had envisioned when his church leader described it. At the front of the church, under the pulpit, his revered pastor, Roy Wood was entangled in a 20-minute embrace with a female member, his waist thrust forward into hers and her arms around his neck.
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Friday February 15, 2008
Royden Wood:
Witness describes torment by pastor
Royden Wood has pleaded not guilty to 13 charges. Ten of them are for assault and assault with a weapon in connection with his conduct involving three boys who were pupils at the church’s alternative school between 1985 and 1987. The other three — two for sexual assault and one for sexual exploitation — involve female complainants.
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Thursday February 14, 2008
Royden Wood:
Man describes alleged abuse by Baptist teacher at defunct London school
The man was describing what he, his older brother and another friend called “the basement treatment,” the most excessive of a wide array of physical assaults they said they endured as Wood’s students at the Ambassador Baptist Church’s alternative school between 1985 and 1987.
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Royden Wood:
Baptist teacher accused of bizarre abuse at defunct London, Ontario, school
The trial for a teacher accused of bizarre abuse at a defunct Baptist school began this week amid allegations of students standing at attention for hours on end, having facial hair plucked with pliers and a greeting that involved fondling the breasts of parishioners.
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