CANADA
Winnipeg Free Press
By: Aldo Santin
SIX men from a reserve in northwestern Ontario are suing a Winnipeg-based Roman Catholic organization for alleged sexual abuse committed against them by a priest in the 1960s.
The six men, from the Lac la Croix First Nation, are suing Les Oblats de Marie Immaculée du Manitoba, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Thunder Bay and the Government of Canada, asking the court to award them unspecified damages, general and punitive damages and damages for loss of past and future income.
The six men now range in age from 55 to 61. They allege they were regularly subjected to forced anal intercourse several times each summer when they were as young as nine until they reached the age of 14 or 15.
The men claim the priest who abused them, Father Jean Lambert, died in 1986. Lambert is also named as a defendant.
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