MacIntosh appeals sex-abuse conviction

Ernest Fenwick MacIntosh is appealing his convictions on 13 counts of sex crimes against boys in Nova Scotia in the 1970s.

MacIntosh, 67, was found guilty last month of gross indecency, indecent assault and other sex-related charges.

His lawyer, Brian Casey, said appeal documents were filed Friday. He told CBC News on Tuesday that the appeal relates toopposing testimonyabout a date.

"We said that because all of the complainants were adamant that there had been almost no contact with Mr. MacIntosh after April 1, 1974, that that placed their allegations as happening before April 1974, and we were then able to show, because of vehicle records and other things, that Mr. MacIntosh didn't even own the vehicles in question at that time,"he said.

During the trial in Nova Scotia Supreme Court in Port Hawkesbury, three complainants testified that MacIntosh abused them in the early 1970s when they were between nine and 12 years old.

MacIntosh told the court he had oral sex with two of them but that it was consensual. He said it happened in the late 1970s when they were at least 16 years old and above the age of consent at the time.

Supreme Court Justice Simon MacDonald found MacIntosh guilty of sexually abusing two of his accusers.

The identities of the three complainants are protected by court order. Two are brothers and the third is a cousin.

MacIntosh is in custody while he waits to be sentenced on Sept. 14. He faces a second trial on another set of charges involving three more complainants.

MacIntosh was first charged in 1995, a year after he moved to India to work as a telecommunications specialist. He was arrested in April 2007 near New Delhi and extradited to Canada two months later.