CANADA
CBC News
A Winnipeg-based Roman Catholic order is being sued by six men from a northwest Ontario First Nation who say they were sexually abused by a priest as children.
The men, from Lac La Croix, are seeking unspecified financial damages from the federal government, a Catholic diocese in Thunder Bay, and the order of Les Oblats de Marie Immaculee du Manitoba, along with a priest who lived and worked on the reserve in the 1960s.
The six men allege the assaults took place in the priest’s home, in a schoolhouse and in a hotel.
They say they felt powerless to speak out because of the priest’s position of power in their small community.
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