CANADA
The Packet
Barb Sweet
Published on June 08, 2016
Philadelphia, Pa., psychiatrist Dr. Robert Toborowsky was qualified as a expert in forensic psychiatry after a contentious morning at the Mount Cashel civil trial.
Toborowsky is a witness for the Episcopal Corp. of St. John’s, which says it should not be held liable for sexual abuse of boys by lay order Christian Brothers during the era 1940s to ’60s.
Contention — in questioning by former orphanage residents’ lawyer Will Hiscock — largely surrounded Toborowsky’s specific experience with patients who were sexually abused as children.
Noting his imminent career, Justice Alphonsus Faour accepted him as a forensic psychiatry expert in sexual abuse as a range of causes of symptoms.
Toborowsky met with the four John Does who are test case plaintiffs in this Newfoundland Supreme Court case in 2010. This afternoon will delve into his opinions on those men’s files.
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