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Listen to this article Estimated 2 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results. A Calgary judge has approved payouts for more than 50 students who were abused by two …
Read More »He was abused by a priest. He’s still waiting on compensation
Timothy Clark felt a growing sense of duty. To say something, to protect others. So he popped some coins into a school payphone and dialed the number for the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Halifax. It was 1984 and he was 14 years old. A member of the archdiocese office staff …
Read More »Ontario couple ‘abused, tortured and starved’ boys in their care, Crown says in final arguments
Crown argues the couple are ‘looking to blame anyone but themselves’ We’re back from the break, and Crown lawyer Kelli Frew starts arguments by saying Cooney and Hamber “are looking to blame anyone but themselves” for L.L.’s death. “They say no one would help them deal with these allegedly unmanageable …
Read More »Mountie abused role when he started relationship with complainant during investigation: disciplinary board
A Nova Scotia Mountie abused his role when he pursued an intimate sexual relationship with the complainant in an assault case where he was the lead investigator, according to an RCMP code of conduct board ruling. The adjudicator overseeing the case, Gina Lévesque, said the Mountie acted inappropriately and discredited …
Read More »Her mother stayed with the man who abused her. Today, she helps other victims of childhood sexual assault
The Current26:04She was abused by her stepfather — and her mother stayed with him WARNING: This article may affect those who have experienced sexual violence or know someone affected by it. Andrea Skinner, daughter of renowned Canadian author Alice Munro, revealed last summer that she was molested by her stepfather, …
Read More »Gisèle Pelicot’s daughter alleges her father, the convicted rapist, abused her, too
The Sunday Magazine46:04Caroline Darian, daughter of Gisèle Pelicot, tells her own story WARNING: This article may affect those who have experienced sexual violence or know someone affected by it. The explosive mass rape trial of Dominique Pelicot and 50 other men in Avignon, France, may have come to an end …
Read More »Lawyers propose 6-year sentence for former Nunavut priest who sexually abused children
Crown and defence lawyers in the case of a priest who sexually abused children in Nunavut are together recommending he receive a six-year sentence. Eric Dejaeger, 77, pleaded guilty earlier this week to six counts of sexually abusing children in Igloolik between 1978 and 1982 — some of them as young as four. …
Read More »He abused dozens of Indigenous children in Ontario. But did Jesuit priest’s painful legacy begin in Montreal?
WARNING: This story contains distressing details. As a Jesuit priest in Ontario, George Epoch sexually abused dozens of children in the 1960s, 70s and 80s. But Epoch’s abuse allegedly dates back even earlier, to the 1950s, when he taught at Loyola High School, a private Catholic school in Montreal. Two …
Read More »Oneida First Nation woman sues London, Ont., police, alleging officers sexually abused her for years
Warning: This story contains disturbing allegations of sexual abuse A 67-year-old Oneida Nation of the Thames woman has launched a $6-million lawsuit against the London Police Service (LPS) in southwestern Ontario, alleging three officers sexually assaulted her for years and officials did nothing to stop it. Two officers sexually assaulted her over the …
Read More »Teacher exonerated at Mount Cashel abused kids in B.C. until at least 2009, lawsuit alleges
A young man from British Columbia alleges Joseph Burke — a former Christian Brother once convicted of abusing boys at a Newfoundland orphanage in the early 1970s — sexually assaulted him numerous times from 2007 to 2009. The man, known as John B. Doe in court documents, says Burke was his teacher at …
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