CANADA
The Chronicle-Herald
February 16, 2012
By MARY ELLEN MacINTYRE and AARON BESWICK Staff Reporters
UPDATED 8:52 p.m.
A high-ranking member of the Roman Catholic Church who is the head of an addictions centre in rural Cape Breton has been relieved of his duties pending the outcome of an inquiry into allegations of sexual abuse and access to medication.
Rev. Paul Abbass, the executive director of Talbot House in Frenchvale for 17 years, is the subject of a review after a complaint was made to the provincial Community Services Department, which oversees the addiction-treatment facility.
No one from Community Services, Talbot House or the Diocese of Antigonish would reveal the reason for the review.
But Dave Mantin of the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests said he has received two separate complaints about Abbass’s behaviour from former residents of Talbot House in the past year.
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