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	Former Mount Cashel Resident Claims Raymond Lahey Abused Him in the 1980s The Western Star April 8, 2010 http://www.thewesternstar.com/index.cfm?sid=335907&sc=506 A bishop facing child pornography charges in Ontario is being accused in a lawsuit of sexually abusing a former resident of Mount Cashel orphanage in St. John’s, N.L. A statement of claim filed in the Supreme Court of Newfoundland and Labrador accuses Raymond Lahey of simulated anal intercourse and fondling. The civil lawsuit filed by Todd Boland says he was a young boy in 1982 when he first met Lahey, who was a pastoral priest, at the Mount Cashel orphanage. None of the allegations made in the statement of claim have been proven in court, and a lawyer representing Lahey on child pornography charges declined comment through his office. In the suit, it is alleged that Lahey took Boland on fishing trips and other outings where abuse occurred over the next four years. Lahey and the Catholic Archdiocese of St. John’s are named as defendants in the suit, which seeks damages for pain and mental suffering. Statements of defence have not been submitted and a spokesman for the achdiocese could not be reached for comment. Lahey resigned after being charged in September with possession of child pornography after border agents examined his laptop at the Ottawa airport.
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