CANADA
CBC News
November 21, 2017
Father Jacques Desgrandchamps has been suspended from the weekly mass he gives in Ottawa
A priest who taught history at a Catholic boarding school in the Eastern Townships has been suspended after an application for a class-action lawsuit was filed alleging he sexually assaulted at least one of his students.
In the document, a 57-year-old man accuses the Collège Servite in Ayer’s Cliff, Que. and the religious Servite Order community of turning a blind eye to the alleged abuse he was a victim of between 1973 and 1975, at the hands of Father Jacques Desgrandchamps.
The man was 12 at the time. He has chosen to remain anonymous, but his lawyer, Robert Kugler, says a class action lawsuit was chosen in order to allow other potential victims to come forward.
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