Christian Brothers Settle with Sex Abuse Victims for $16.5m

Toronto Sun
May 24, 2013

http://www.torontosun.com/2013/05/23/christian-brothers-settle-with-sex-abuse-victims-for-165m

Hundreds of victims of sexual abuse by the Christian Brothers reached a financial settlement Thursday.

The religious order agreed to pay $16.5 million to 400 claimants, including 90 from Canada, who say they were molested as children by members of the order.

The Brothers ran the Mount Cashel Orphanage in St. John's, N.L., for 84 years, until it announced 1989 it would shut down following revelations of a massive sex abuse scandal, thought to be the largest ever in Canada.

Victims began reporting abuse as far back as 1975; other reports said the abuse dated back to the 1950s.