HALIFAX (NOVA SCOTIA, CANADA)
Chronicle Herald
February 8, 2021
By Barb Sweet
Notice of civil claim was filed in the Supreme Court of British Columbia Monday
Vancouver, British Columbia – The legal entity of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of St. John’s has been named in a proposed class-action lawsuit involving alleged sexual abuse at schools in Vancouver where Christian Brothers taught decades ago.
The notice of civil claim was to be filed in the Supreme Court of British Columbia Monday and the local archdiocese has not had legal notification yet, according to the lawyer Joe Fiorante who hopes to get the class action certified in B.C.
“The abuse at Vancouver College and St. Thomas More continued a pattern of systemic child abuse at institutions run by the Christian Brothers in Canada (CBIC) first revealed at the Mount Cashel Orphanage in Newfoundland in the mid-to-late 1970s,” alleges the notice of claim. (Early police investigations in Newfoundland and Labrador were covered up at the time.)
“Following incidents of abuse, the CBIC did not act to protect the children in their care, but to protect their abusers from criminal charges by moving them out of Newfoundland to teach at schools owned and operated by the CBIC, including Vancouver College and St. Thomas More. The transfers were carried out with the knowledge and approval of the Archbishop of St. John’s.”
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