CANADA
The Telegram
Barb Sweet
Published on April 14, 2016
A man told the Mount Cashel civil trial at Newfoundland Supreme Court Wednesday he was taken in the 1950s by a Christian Brother to the orphanage boiler room where he was kissed and fondled, beginning a pattern of being sexually “stalked” by that Brother and abused numerous times.
And during that period, he said, he asked priests for help.
The man also talked about another Brother who beat him, leaving his eye swollen for two weeks.
“Sexual stalking, it was persistent,” the man, now in his early 70s, said of the Brother who sexually abused him. “The two years, the 2 1/2 years, were probably the worst period of my life ever, under any circumstances, when (the two Brothers) were in the orphanage. It was awful.”
The man said he told some Roman Catholic priests about the incidents in and out of confession, and his once-serious interest in pursuing a career in the priesthood or as a Christian Brother ended because they did not help him.
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