NEW BRUNSWICK (CANADA)
CBC News
November 08, 2017
By Bobbi-Jean MacKinnon
Cynthia Mae Moore seeks damages over 2 attacks by Rev. William Morton in St. Stephen in 2015
A New Brunswick woman who claims her former minister tried twice to kill her is suing him, the Anglican Church of Canada, the Anglican Diocese of Fredericton and the Anglican Parish of St. Stephen.
Cynthia Mae Moore, 60, claims she was in a nearly four-year extramarital affair with Rev. William Morton, her minister at Christ Church in St. Stephen, when he threatened to skin her alive and scraped her breasts with a box cutter.
The incident happened at Morton’s St. Stephen home on Nov. 24, 2015, according to the notice of action and statement of claim, filed with the Court of Queen’s Bench in Saint John.
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