VANCOUVER – The Roman Catholic Diocese of Prince George, B.C., says it hopes a $3.4 million settlement gives an alleged victim of sexual abuse by a school teacher “some degree of restitution for the harm that was so unjustly inflicted upon him by his abuser.”
The settlement by the diocese and St. Thomas More Collegiate, a Catholic school in Burnaby, B.C., was announced in a statement released by lawyer Sandra Kovacs, who represented the anonymous man in the lawsuit.
Also named in the lawsuit was former teacher Alfred Patrick Quigley, who the anonymous plaintiff said sexually abused him in the 1990s.
Quigley taught at O’Grady Catholic High School in Prince George and one of the alleged assaults was said to have occurred at St. Thomas More Collegiate.
The lawsuit accused Quigley of “grooming” the plaintiff before sexually assaulting him in 1993 and 1994.
Quigley denied “each and every allegation” in…
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