Sexual Abuse Survivor Suing Retired Minister, Diocese

By Vincent Ball
Sun News
March 28, 2014

http://www.sunnewsnetwork.ca/sunnews/canada/archives/2014/03/20140328-124700.html

Chris Morrison Of Paris, Ontario

A Paris, Ont., man and survivor of sexual abuse has launched a $3.1-million lawsuit against his abuser and the Anglican Diocese of Huron.

Chris Morrison, 42, who didn't reveal for decades that he had been abused by a minister of his church in the 1980s, announced his lawsuit at a press conference Friday. He is being represented by Rob Talach, of Beckett Personal Injury Lawyers, of London, Ont.

The lawsuit names George Ferris and Incorporated Synod of the Diocese of Huron as the defendants.

Ferris, 66, of Cambridge, Ont., and a retired Anglican minister, was convicted in November on two counts of sexual assault and in January was sentenced to four years in prison for the crimes committed against Morrison when Morrison was a teen.