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Source: CBC News Kenneth William Storheim on trial for alleged abuse involving boys The sex-abuse trial of Canada’s senior Orthodox Church cleric began Monday with a former altar boy accusing Archbishop Kenneth William (Seraphim) Storheim of inviting him to touch his private parts. Storheim has pleaded not guilty to two counts of sexual assault involving two pre-teen brothers who were members of the church more than 25 years ago, when he worked at a parish in Winnipeg’s North End. Storheim is the highest-ranking cleric in the Canadian diocese of the Orthodox Church in America. The first witness at the trial…