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Ernest Fenwick MacIntosh's background investigated by the Jesuits

The Catholic order, Canadian Jesuits International, is sending a private investigator to look into the background of Ernest Fenwick MacIntosh.

MacIntosh is serving a seven-year jail term in Nepal for molesting a boy. He had also been accused of similar offences in India and Nova Scotia.

Bob Martin of Port Hood says MacIntosh sexually abused him in the 1970s. He was due to meet with the investigator from the Toronto firm Xpera on Sunday.

Martin says the Jesuit order is concerned that MacIntosh sometimes targeted children in church-run orphanages.

"It's too late for what they're doing now, of course it is," Martin said.

"But I guess they want to put out there 'we did this, here we are, we're being transparent and we're on the side of the victims and we do not want people like Mr. MacIntosh visiting our orphanage anywheres in the world be it in Nepal or in India.'"

According to Martin, the investigator will be speaking with him as well as other people in Nova Scotia who say MacIntosh abused them when they were children.

Martin says the Jesuit response may be because of criticism they've received.

"Their head office is in Toronto so they have had some criticism that pedophiles in general are visiting their orphanages," he said.