Plaintiff seeks record $2.4 million in damages in sex-assault case involving former Kamloops priest

KAMLOOPS (BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA)
Vancouver Sun via Kamloops this Week

March 13, 2020

Keith Fraser / Vancouver Sun

Rosemary Anderson claims Father Erlindo Molon committed the assaults against her after she was hired as a teacher at the Our Lady of Perpetual Help school in North Kamloops in 1976

A former schoolteacher who alleges she was repeatedly sexually assaulted by a Catholic priest in Kamloops more than 40 years ago is seeking a record $2.4 million in damages for such cases in B.C.

Rosemary Anderson claims Father Erlindo Molon committed the assaults against her after she was hired as a teacher at the Our Lady of Perpetual Help school in North Kamloops in 1976.

She testified that, at the time, she was grieving the death of her father and seeking spiritual guidance from the priest, who is now 88 years old and suffering from dementia.

In final submissions at Anderson’s civil trial this week, her lawyer, Sandra Kovacs, outlined the quantum of damages being sought from the defendant, the Roman Catholic Bishop of the Diocese of Kamloops.

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