CANADA
Canadian Underwriter
Canadian Press
WINNIPEG – A former Winnipeg priest, the Archdiocese of Saint Boniface and Clercs de Saint-Viateur du Canada have been named in two separate sexual assault lawsuits.
The lawsuits are connected to Ronald Leger, a former pastor at Holy Family Parish in Winnipeg.
He pleaded guilty to sexually abusing three boys ranging in age from nine to 18 between 1980 and 2004.
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Leger was given a two-year prison sentence in February.
The lawsuit alleged that the Archdiocese was “negligent and failed in its duty” to the victim “to recognize that a certain percentage of priests would become sexually deviant.”
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