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	Woman Sues Diocese over Sex Abuse Winnipeg Free Press January 6, 2010 http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/canada/80776587.html HALIFAX — A Halifax woman has filed a lawsuit against a Roman Catholic diocese in Nova Scotia, alleging that she endured nearly a decade of sexual assaults by a priest who took her in as a little girl and forced her to call him uncle. Linda Deschamp claims in the suit filed in the province's Supreme Court that the cycle of abuse began after Rev. Raoul Deveau offered her a job cleaning the rectory in the small community of Shelburne when she was 11 years old. Deschamp alleges in the statement of claim that when she went to the rectory she was repeatedly sexually assaulted by the priest, who died in the early 1980s. John McKiggan, Deschamp's lawyer, said Tuesday that the now middle-aged woman then moved in with the priest to help her impoverished, devout parents. Parents, kids put squeeze on boomers THE champagne wishes and caviar dreams of baby boomers are being put on hold as they deal with the dual financial burden of supporting aging parents and adult children, according to results of a new poll. Released Tuesday by Winnipeg-based Investors Group, the survey shows that Canadian boomers are being "sandwiched" by the support many now provide for their parents and their grown children, causing stress and jeopardizing their own retirements. The poll defines baby boomers as those aged 43 to 63, and finds that 10 per cent of the 500 surveyed last fall provide financial support to their parents, causing stress in 40 per cent of them. While 60 per cent of the boomers helped support their grown children, one-quarter of the "paying parents" were not thrilled that they had to provide for children who were not financially self-sufficient.
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