Retired priest Arthur Mas has been arrested for sexual assault in Manitoba

A retired priest was arrested Thursday for allegedly sexually abusing a girl at a local housing school in Canada in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

Arthur Mas, 92, was arrested at his home in Winnipeg and charged with sexually assaulting a 10-year-old girl who was a student at a school in Manitoba, Fort Alexander, according to the CBC.

“The victim in this case has endured a lot throughout the investigation and has spoken out about what happened to her,” said a spokesman for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Sergeant. Paul Manaigre said on Friday.

“The most important thing about her today is that she was heard.

According to Manaigre, more than 80 investigators worked on the case, contacting more than 700 people in North America to search for witnesses and victims. The RCMP received 75 testimonies from witnesses and victims, he said.

“The question may be asked: why was there one accusation in all this work and not many?”

The school opened in 1905 in the community of Fort Alexander, on the territory of Sagkeeng First Nation. It was closed in 1970.