CANADA
Winnipeg Sun
By Paul Turenne,Winnipeg Sun
First posted: Friday, February 17, 2012
A Winnipeg man has come forward claiming he was repeatedly sexually abused by a priest while he was a student at a North End Catholic school nearly 60 years ago.
The 64-year-old man, who cannot be named to protect his identity, filed a lawsuit with Manitoba’s Court of Queen’s Bench last week alleging that a priest at Holy Ghost School on Selkirk Avenue fondled and masturbated him two or three times per week in a basement bathroom at the school when he was in Grade 3 in the mid-1950s. The man alleges the priest tried several times to get him to do the same in return.
“The plaintiff would try to run away from (the priest) in order to avoid or stop the sexual assaults, but would be caught and hit by (the priest),” the suit alleges.
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