Suit is accusing the city of vicarious liability for the harm Kenneth Estabrooks inflicted from 1953, when he became a police officer, to 1983, when he retired from the city works department.
The class-action lawsuit against the City of Saint John resumed on Monday morning with opening remarks from Michael Brenton, the lawyer representing the city.
A private investigator who was hired in 2012 by the City of Saint John to find people who may have been sexually abused by former Saint John police officer Kenneth Estabrooks did not testify Wednesday as to why his investigation stopped.
Four men between the ages of 58 and 66 have now described to a judge how they were terrorized as children by former Saint John police officer Kenneth Estabrooks, who died in 2005.