CANADA
CBC News
By Chris O’Neill-Yates, CBC News Posted: Nov 22, 2016
A 76-year-old former Mount Cashel resident is waiting for the outcome of a lawsuit against the Roman Catholic Episcopal Corporation of St. John’s that was filed in 1999.
The man — who can be identified only as John Doe because of a publication ban — is one of 80 to 90 former residents suing the Roman Catholic Episcopal Corporation of St. John’s for abuse dating back to the 1940s and 1950s.
Twenty-five years after the infamous Mount Cashel orphanage was torn down, John Doe recalls the helplessness he felt as a boy.
“You had no freedom, nowhere to go. They could do what they wanted to you with impunity,” he said.
The man was a resident at Mount Cashel from 1948 to 1955. He said he was sexually and physically abused by four Christian Brothers and one lay person.
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