CANADA
The Telegram
Barb Sweet
Published on June 20, 2016
Becoming an orphan doesn’t have to mark a person for life, a forensic psychologist told the Mount Cashel civil trial in Newfoundland Supreme Court.
Alan Goldstein of New York said the loss of a parent is unforgettable, but he said if a child — who loses both parents or is unable to be cared for by the surviving parent — is placed in a facility that is safe, they can thrive.
Goldstein was called to testify — as an expert on the impact of child sexual abuse among causes of impairment — by lawyers for a group of former residents of the Mount Cashel orphanage during the 1940s to early ’60s.
They say the Roman Catholic Episcopal Corp. should be held liable for physical and sexual abuse they suffered at the hands of certain members of the lay order Christian Brothers at Mount Cashel.
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