MONTREAL (QUEBEC, CANADA)
Montreal Gazette
December 5, 2019
By Damien Meyer
The suit names 26 FSC schools across Quebec and names 25 priests suspected of sexually assaulting children between the 1940s and 1980s
The Frères du Sacré-Cœur (FSC) will have to defend itself against a second class-action lawsuit in Quebec that claims its priests molested children in their care.
In a ruling published Thursday, Superior Court Judge Christian Immer wrote that claims of widespread abuse within the religious order were credible enough to warrant a class-action lawsuit. The suit names 26 FSC schools across Quebec and names 25 priests suspected of sexually assaulting children between the 1940s and 1980s.
One of the main plaintiffs — given the alias “F” in the lawsuit — claims that, as a teenager, he was repeatedly abused by Brother Léon Maurice Tremblay while attending an FSC summer camp. This would have taken place in 1978 or 1979.
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