A Saskatoon priest is going to jail for kissing a 13-year-old girl in a supply closet.
The 71-year-old appeared in provincial court Thursday.
Defence lawyer Zachary Carter confirmed that Janko Kolosnjaji was sentenced to eight months in jail, to be followed with 18 months probation.
Kolosnjaji kissed the teen two years ago at the Ukrainian Catholic Cathedral of St. George in the Pleasant Hill neighbourhood.
He was found guilty in February.
in June, prosecutor Sheryl Fillo described the impact on the victim and her family.
“This was, for the victim, her first kiss,” Fillo said.
“She was a refugee from a war-torn country [Ukraine] and extremely vulnerable … and he would have known it.”
The teen read a victim impact statement in court, describing the “pain and shame, I could not understand what had happened.”
“The world became hostile and dangerous.”
In a statement, her mother said that the assault involved a person in a position of authority.
“This is the destruction of a child’s trust, dignity, soul.”
