CANADA
Edmonton Journal
By Ryan Cormier, Edmonton Journal January 20, 2012
A former altar boy who claims he was sexually abused by a Grande Cache priest and an Edmonton church employee in the 1970s is suing the Catholic Archdiocese of Edmonton for $6.8 million.
The man, who now lives in British Columbia, was an altar boy at St. Joseph’s Basilica in downtown Edmonton from 1973 to 1975. For three years before that, he was part of the congregation. He was a teen-ager at the time.
The lawsuit alleges he was “sexually abused, assaulted and battered” by Patrick O’Neill while at the Grande Cache parish on an altar boy ex-change program. O’Neill was a priest in the parish at the time.
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