KAMLOOPS (BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA)
Glacier Media
March 6, 2019
Bishop told woman alleging assaults by Kamloops ‘playboy’ priest to leave diocese
A B.C. woman alleging she was sexually abused by a Roman Catholic priest over several months 43 years ago while she was a parish school teacher wants Diocese of Kamloops offices searched for files it may have on her case and other similar ones, court documents say.
Now, in a notice of application filed with BC Supreme Court Feb. 27, Rosemary Anderson is prepared to go to court to see if a judge will authorize a search of the Kamloops premises to find documents relevant to her case. She has suggested secret archives exist — a suggestion the church denies.
Anderson alleges in a Dec. 22, 2016, notice of civil claim the sexual abuse at the hands of Father Erlindo “Lindo” Molon, now 86, starting at age 26 when she sought solace after her father’s death. She names Molon and the Roman Catholic Bishop of the Diocese of Kamloops, A Corporation Sole in the claim.
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