VANCOUVER (CANADA)
Richmond News
Oct. 7, 2019
By Jeremy Hainsworth
A 42-year-old case of allegations of sexual assault by a Kamloops priest against a grieving woman and the diocese’s responsibility in the situation is not a case of determining damages but how much those damages will be, BC Supreme Court heard Oct. 7.
“This is a clear-cut, simple, civil, sexual assault case,” diocese lawyer John Hogg told the court.
Rosemary Anderson alleged in a Dec. 22, 2016, notice of civil claim the sexual abuse at the hands of Father Erlindo “Lindo” Molon, now 86, started when she was 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.
Anderson was working as a diocese teacher at the time.
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