CANADA
Winnipeg Free Press
By: Alexandra Paul
Posted: 05/11/2017
A former Anglican minister and boy scouts leader convicted in dozens of sex abuse cases against young indigenous boys is now the focus of a proposed class-action lawsuit seeking more than $100 million.
The suit alleges Ralph Rowe abused hundreds of boys in northwestern Ontario and Manitoba First Nations where he worked in the 1970s and ’80s.
Despite dozens of criminal convictions, Rowe served only about five years in prison, the result of a deal Rowe’s legal counsel arranged with the Crown in return for guilty pleas in nearly 40 cases against him.
The 43-page suit was filed in the Ontario Supreme Court in Thunder Bay Thursday. Until it is formally certified by the courts it remains a proposed class-action suit and no statements of defence have been filed.
It seeks $110 million in damages.
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