CANADA
National Post
Jake Edmiston | 13/07/26
The RCMP in British Columbia said Friday that it has yet to conclude its file on allegations that John Furlong, who headed the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Games organizing committee, sexually assaulted two of his students while he was an elementary school teacher in northern B.C. in 1969 and 1970.
In court documents filed Friday, John Hunter, a lawyer for Mr. Furlong, wrote that RCMP in Burns Lake, B.C., investigated at least one of the two sexual abuse allegations and found “the allegation to have no basis in fact.”
But on Friday evening, Inspector Ed Boettcher, a spokesman at the RCMP’s B.C. headquarters in Surrey, said the Furlong case is still open. “I can’t speak to what others may or may not be saying,” Insp. Boettcher said. “But from an RCMP perspective, we’re not in a position to comment on it because our file has not been fully concluded on the Furlong matter.
“When all avenues are exhausted, then we can say it’s been concluded,” he said.
Two former students from Immaculata Roman Catholic School in Burns Lake filed separate lawsuits this week against Mr. Furlong.
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