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July 21 Hamilton, Ont. Bruce Leonard […]

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1980-07-21

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July 21 Hamilton, Ont. Bruce Leonard Musson, sixty-nine, pleaded guilty to one charge of indecent assault and four charges of gross indecency. Musson had been charged for having sex with youths aged twelve to sixteen, which he claimed had been consensual. Musson had been charged with similar offences before. Although doctors said that Musson was ill with heart disease and had less than a year to live, he was sentenced to three years in prison.

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Bruce Leonard Musson

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Gerald Hannon, "Consensual Sex with Youths Earns Dying Man 3–Year Jail Term," Body Politic, no. 67 (1980), p. 16.