CANADA
Metro
By: Sue Bailey The Canadian Press Published on Mon Jun 06 2016
ST. JOHN’S, N.L. — There is one thing the elderly man most remembers about living at the Mount Cashel orphanage more than 60 years ago: fear.
“They had complete control over you,” he said of the Irish Christian Brothers, a Roman Catholic order that ran the once-iconic institution in St. John’s, N.L. “You were beaten continually.
“They’d come to your bed at night,” said the man, now in his ’70s, who can’t be identified under a court-ordered publication ban.
“They’d masturbate you and lie on top of you, rub you and kiss you and all of that. I used to try and say a prayer and, you know, it didn’t work.”
He was in court Monday as a civil trial resumed in provincial Supreme Court involving about 60 claimants. They’re arguing the Roman Catholic Episcopal Corp. of St. John’s should compensate victims for alleged abuse dating back to the 1940s.
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