CANADA
CBC.CA
February 17, 2018
By Jaela Bernstien
Montrealer is filing motion to launch class action
Now 62 years old, Marc Boudreau has come to accept that he will likely never find peace, or be able to live a normal life, after a childhood spent in institutions.
Many days are a struggle for Boudreau, who still finds it difficult to talk about his past.
“It was a stolen childhood, because we were children and we were innocent,” he said. “We were defenceless.”
In a motion to be authorized to launch a class action lawsuit, Boudreau alleges that his mother handed him over to a Catholic-run organization as an infant. After some time in foster care, Boudreau spent most of his early years in orphanages and psychiatric hospitals in Quebec.
In the motion, he claims that physical and sexual abuse in those institutions left him with long-term scars — both physical and emotional — and that prevented him from forming stable relationships or finding steady work.
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