CANADA
CBC News
[with video]
Former students at a church-run institute for the deaf in Montreal have come forward with graphic tales of sexual abuse they allege they suffered during more than four decades.
Quebec’s Superior Court authorized a class-action lawsuit last March against members of the Clerics of St-Viateur who worked at the school, formerly known as the Montreal Institute for the Deaf.
The former boarding school was run by the Clerics of Saint-Viateur, a religious congregation founded in 1831.
According to students who attended the all-boys institute between 1940 and 1982, violent sexual assaults were commonplace.
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