VIDEO: Police announce seven additional charges against Pop during a press conference on Sept. 30.
TORONTO – A Scarborough priest faces five additional sexual assault charges, bringing the total to 13, Toronto police announced Wednesday.
Ioan Pop, 54, was charged with seven additional counts of sexual assault and one count of forcible confinement on Sept. 30.
It is alleged that the suspect sexually assaulted women either in a church or in a funeral home.
Police say the first reported incident happened on Sept. 3 when a woman entered All Saints, a Romanian Orthodox Church, in the Birchmount Road and Danforth Road area.
At that time, Pop was only charged with one count of sexual assault.
Police last month said the other sexual assault incidents occurred at the church and at residences between 2005 to 2011.
The complainants were women between the ages of 24 to 33 years of age.
Police believe there could be more victims and are urging anyone with information to come forward.
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