VANCOUVER (BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA)
CBC.com
Updated September 1, 2020 [Note: This is an updated version of an article that we posted on Abuse Tracker earlier this week. This update corrects factual errors that appeared in the original article.]
By Bethany Lindsay
Lawyer for Rosemary Anderson says she hopes court victory will send a message to Kamloops diocese
A woman who was repeatedly sexually abused by a priest in Kamloops, B.C., says the leadership of the Catholic church failed her by not acting on previous reports of his misconduct.
Last week, a B.C. Supreme Court judge awarded Rosemary Anderson $844,140 in damages for the sexual battery she suffered at the hands of Father Erlindo Molon while he was a priest at Our Lady of Perpetual Help in the 1970s.
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Kamloops was held directly and vicariously liable for those damages after the court heard church leadership was aware of Molon’s reputation as a playboy priest and an archbishop had even confronted him about it, but nothing was done to stop him.
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