An 81-year-old from Regina has been arrested by the Russell RCMP for a sexual assault dating back to the early 1970s when he was a priest at a church in Lennard, Manitoba, which is seven minutes away from Inglis.
On June 13, Constantin Turcoane was arrested. The Russell RCMP received a report of a sexual assault on March 16, 2022. That's when a female in her 60s reported that she had been sexually assaulted multiple times over two years by the priest when she was a parishioner at St. Elijah Romanian Orthodox Church.
At the time of the assaults, the female was 11-12 years of age.
An investigation included locating and taking statements from multiple people and searching historic church records. A warrant of arrest was issued for Turcoane for Rape and Sexual Intercourse Under 14. He did turn himself in to the police and has been released with a court date.
