MONTRÉAL (QUÉBEC, CANADA)
Kugler Kandestin
February 7, 2018
By Robert Kugler, Pierre Boivin, and Olivera Pajani
Kugler Kandestin files a class action seeking compensatory damages, as well as punitive and exemplary damages of $15 million.
The class action seeks to enable access to justice to numerous people who were victims of sexual abuse during their childhood, by religious members of the Brothers of Sacred Heart associated with Collège Mont-Sacré-Coeur in Granby. The class action alleges that the reprehensible and unacceptable sexual abuse was perpetrated systematically for several decades by at least 18 religious Brothers.
– Motion to Institute Proceedings dated February 5, 2018
– Judgment dated November 23, 2017
– Application for Authorization to Institute a Class Action
[Note from BishopAccountability.org: According to the documents linked above, the class action pertains to allegations of abuse by religious members of the Brothers of Sacred Heart Congregation, including:
– Brother Claude Lebeau SC (also known as Brother Gatien)
– Brother Jean-Guy Roy SC
– Brother Paul-Émile Blain SC
– Brother Louis Raymond SC (Raymond Decelles)
– Brother Majoric Duchesne SC
– Brother Roch Messier SC
– Brother Hervé Aubin SC (also known as “Frère Économe”)
– Brother Georges-Arthur SC
– Brother Gerry SC
– Brother Eudes SC
– Brother Gilles SC
– Brother Lucien Martel SC (Brother Gédéon)
– Brother Jean Royer SC
– Brother Jean-Claude Leduc SC
– Brother Arcène SC
– Brother Éphrem Chaput SC (Brother Aldéi)
– Brother Patrice SC (Cyrille Picard)
– Brother Antonio SC]
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