CANADA
CTV
The Canadian Press
Published Thursday, June 18, 2015
VANCOUVER — The freelance journalist suing John Furlong for defamation says she knew that a man who accused the former Olympics boss of sexual abuse had conflicting claims of abuse.
The trial has heard that the man and two women filed lawsuits alleging Furlong had sexually abused them while they were students at a Roman Catholic school in Burns Lake, B.C., in 1969 and 1970.
Laura Robinson testified under cross-examination that she presented a paper at a 2013 sports conference in Denmark that the included allegations of sexual abuse against Furlong by the three accusers.
One woman dropped her suit while the other two were dismissed earlier this year — and the man was found to have received $138,000 in compensation for abuse he alleged to have suffered at a different school during the same time period.
Robinson told the trial that she knew of the man’s compensation claim, but added that it wasn’t unusual for First Nations students to be ferried between schools even during the same year.
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