WINNIPEG (MANITOBA, CANADA)
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
January 12, 2018
By Cameron MacLean
A Manitoba man alleges a now deceased priest sexually abused him at a Winnipeg group home — and that a supervisor at the home ignored the abuse when he tried to report it.
The allegations are part of a lawsuit filed last month by the man, who was a ward of Credo Home. That’s the same Winnipeg group home where Catholic priest and convicted pedophile Omer Desjardins worked.
Desjardins died of a heart attack at the age of 85 on Dec. 4, 2017 just as he was about to go to trial on new charges for alleged offences dating back to the late 1980s.
At that time, Desjardins worked as a caretaker at Credo Home, which was run by the Oblates of Mary Immaculate, a Roman Catholic religious community to which Desjardins belonged.
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