CANADA
Metro
MONCTON, N.B. — New Brunswick’s Roman Catholic church is facing new accusations that several of its priests were involved in the sexual abuse of youth, including a lawsuit alleging the former chaplain at the University of Moncton assaulted a boy in the 1980s.
Notices of action have been filed before the Court of Queen’s Bench in Moncton against Rev. Paul Breau, the former university chaplain, Rev. Yvon Arsenault and the Moncton Diocese.
The documents say the person making the allegations was a young offender who had been ordered to do community work on church grounds belonging to St. Joseph parish in Shediac, a coastal town 27 kilometres east of Moncton where Breau and Arsenault were working.
The two priests were responsible for supervising the young boy, and the abuse is alleged to have occurred over a two-year-period in the 1980s in the priests’ residence.
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