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Lawyer for Quebec Cardinal Marc Ouellet says accuser's testimony lacks credibility
- Quebec Cardinal Marc Ouellet is suing Paméla Groleau for $100,000 in a defamation lawsuit over sexual misconduct accusations.
- Groleau alleges Ouellet touched her without consent three times between 2008 and 2010 during her church work.
- Ouellet denies the allegations, and his lawyer argued that Groleau's testimony is inconsistent and lacks credibility.
- The court was asked to disregard testimony from Marie-Louise Moreau regarding an incident in 1992, which Ouellet also denies.
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Lawyer for Quebec Cardinal Marc Ouellet says accuser's testimony lacks credibility
Quebec Cardinal Marc Ouellet was back on the witness stand Monday denying he ever acted inappropriately with women, with his lawyer suggesting the accuser at the centre of his defamation lawsuit lacked credibility.
The lawyer for the Quebec cardinal suggested that the complainant at the centre of the trial lacked credibility.
Cardinal Marc Ouellet categorically denied the allegations of a woman, who had suggested that he had rubbed himself against her. There is a mistake about the person, advanced the man of the Church on Monday morning, during his testimony at the defamation trial that he brought against the former pastoral agent Pamela Groleau.
The closing arguments began on Monday at the Montreal courthouse as part of Cardinal Marc Ouellet's defamation lawsuit.
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