A preliminary hearing for a former North Vancouver Anglican priest accused of sexually abusing boys in a youth detention centre in the 1980s gets underway this week in Edmonton.
Gordon William Dominey, 65, was the interim priest at St. Catherine’s Anglican Church in Edgemont for about six months between September 2015 and February 2016. He now faces more than 30 charges of sexual assault and gross indecency.
The charges stem from incidents alleged to have taken place when Dominey worked at the Edmonton Youth Detention Centre between 1985 and 1989. The alleged victims were aged 14 to 17 at the time.
Dominey transferred from the Diocese of Edmonton to the Diocese of New Westminster in July of 1990 and has worked in at least nine parishes in the Vancouver area since then. The Diocese of New Westminster put him on administrative leave – meaning he can’t work as a priest for the Anglican Church anywhere in Canada – after he was arrested at his Coquitlam home on Feb. 4, 2016.
A preliminary hearing, held to determine if there is enough evidence for a trial, was scheduled to start Tuesday in Edmonton and continue over several dates between now and the end of June.
Dominey remains out on bail.
