CANADA
The Telegram
Barb Sweet
Published on April 08, 2016
Man also says he told priest in confession of sexual incidents
A former Mount Cashel orphanage resident broke down this morning in testimony at Newfoudland Supreme Court as he shook and covered his face.
“I don’t know why I am doing this,” said the 77-year-old Avalon Peninsula man, who is retired from the military.
The man had said he loved band, but when his lawyer Geoff Budden began asking him about the band instructor, the witness stopped and began shaking.
Subsequently in his testimony in the Mount Cashel civil trial, he said he was molested one night by the bandleader, a Christian Brother he initially liked.
The man is the fourth claimant among four test cases that have been brought before the civil court, representing about 60 former residents at the orphanage from the 1940s to the 1960s. They say the RC Episcopal Corp. of St. John’s should be held liable for the sexual and physical abuse of boys by certain Christian Brothers during that period.
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