Proposed lawsuit links Mount Cashel, Vancouver
Proposed lawsuit links Mount Cashel, Vancouver By Catholic News Service February 10, 2021
VANCOUVER The Archdiocese of Vancouver has been named in a proposed class-action lawsuit involving allegations of sexual abuse at two Catholic high schools run by the Christian Brothers.
The suit, filed in British Columbia’s Supreme Court Feb. 8, alleges that between 1976 and 1983, six men who abused children at Mount Cashel Orphanage in St. John’s, Nfld. run by the Christian Brothers were transferred to the two Vancouver schools, reported
The B.C. Catholic, archdiocesan newspaper.
The plaintiff, Darren Liptrot, says he was sexually abused while he attended Vancouver College from 1980 to 1985. The other school was St. Thomas More Collegiate. The claims have not been proven in court.
Posted: Feb 08, 2021 6:10 PM PT | Last Updated: February 9
The lawsuit says one of the six men confessed to abusing children at Mount Cashel before he was transferred to Vancouver.(CBC)
A Catholic order shuffled known abusers from a notorious Newfoundland orphanage to two schools in the Vancouver area where more boys were victimized, a lawsuit alleges.
A proposed class-action suit filed Monday in British Columbia Supreme Court says between 1976 and 1983, an order called the Christian Brothers transferred six abusive members from Mount Cashel Orphanage to Vancouver College and St. Thomas More Collegiate.
The lawsuit says one of the six men, Brother Edward English, confessed to abusing children at Mount Cashel before he was transferred, and all six were later convicted of sexually or physically abusing orphans at the Newfoundland facility.
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A former student of a private Vancouver Catholic school alleges that a teacher who sexually abused him in the 1980s was shuffled to the West Coast by the church after confessing he preyed on boys at an infamous Newfoundland orphanage.
In a proposed class action filed on Monday in B.C. Supreme Court, Darren Liptrot also alleges that his abuser was joined by five other abusers, who were transferred across the country from the Mount Cashel facility in Newfoundland and Labrador to his high school, Vancouver College, and St. Thomas More Collegiate between 1976 and 1983.
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Posted: Feb 09, 2021 6:43 AM NT | Last Updated: February 9
Edward English confessed to police in St. John s in 1975 about abusing boys at Mount Cashel Orphanage. It was covered up by justice officials, and English was allowed to leave the province. He s now accused of the same acts in British Columbia in 1981.(CBC)
A British Columbia man says he was sexually abused by a Roman Catholic school teacher in 1981, six years after the teacher s confession of abusing children at an orphanage on the other end of the country was covered up.
Darren Liptrot came forward on Monday and filed a proposed class-action lawsuit at a courthouse in Vancouver. It was a momentous step for a man who said he s agonized over childhood trauma for nearly 40 years.