CANADA
CBC News
A class-action lawsuit launched by former students of a church-run institute for the deaf in Montreal has been tentatively settled out of court for $20 million.
The former students had alleged that they were sexually abused by members of the Clerics of St-Viateur who worked at the school, formerly known as the Montreal Institute for the Deaf.
Students who attended the all-boys institute between 1940 and 1982 claimed that violent sexual assaults were commonplace.
Quebec’s Superior Court authorized a class-action lawsuit against members of the Clerics of St-Viateur in March 2012.
Allegations by the suit’s 64 claimants focused on 28 religious staff and six lay workers, only a handful of whom were still alive at the time it was launched.
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