CANADA
The Telegram
Barb Sweet
Published on April 11, 2016
Some 60 years ago, two boys without winter coats dragged a cardboard box of meagre belongings through the snow together after being expelled from Mount Cashel.
Neither spoke to each other about sexual abuse nor could they fathom ever being listened to about it, they told The Telegram outside court Monday in St. John’s.
Parting after one stayed with the other’s family for a short time, the boys — now men in their late 70s — said they did not speak for decades.
Then they bumped into each other at the police station as a result of the 1989 Hughes Inquiry into the scandal surrounding sexual abuse of a different era of young boys at Mount Cashel — during the 1970s and 1980s.
“I thought he was dead,” one man said of the other of that long-ago chance meeting at the station, where neither was privy to what either said to police.
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