WINNIPEG (MANITOBA, CANADA)
CBC News
Parishioner suing former Manitoba Anglican priest for alleged sexual exploitation
Brandon bishop ‘horrified’ by allegations, says he demanded priest’s resignation
October 4, 2017
By Vera-Lynn Kubinec and Katie Nicholson
A woman who was a parishioner of an Anglican church in western Manitoba is alleging she was exploited and sexually assaulted by her priest for years, after he manipulated her into a sexual relationship.
The woman is suing former priest Nigel Packwood and the Anglican synod of the Diocese of Brandon.
Packwood “initiated and maintained” an illicit and long-standing sexual relationship with the parishioner, says the statement of claim filed Sept. 19 in Winnipeg.
“Rev. Packwood exploited and misused the power, authority and discretion conferred upon him by the Diocese to gain access to confidential information about [the plaintiff] and her circumstances and to initiate and maintain illicit intimate sexual contact with, and to manipulate, control and sexually exploit [the plaintiff] for his own personal sexual gratification,” the claim says.
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