A former Nova Scotia priest is headed to prison after pleading guilty in May to six counts of indecent assault involving minors.

Eighty-three-year-old Albert LeBlanc was handed a five-and-a-half year prison sentence yesterday.

Some details of LeBlanc’s horrific abuse were read out in a Yarmouth courtroom as friends and family of some of his victims listened in stunned silence.

One statement noted an instance when LeBlanc couldn’t wait to get his hands on a young altar boy and began molesting the youth while he still wore his priestly robes.