CANADA
National Post
Sue Bailey, The Canadian Press | June 5, 2016
ST. JOHN’S, N.L. — Long before the Boston scandal that inspired the award-winning movie “Spotlight,” men who once lived at the Mount Cashel orphanage in Newfoundland allege they endured horrific abuse ignored by church officials.
Their civil lawsuit will return to provincial Supreme Court Monday as they argue the Roman Catholic Episcopal Corp. of St. John’s should compensate them for incidents dating back to the 1940s.
“The archdiocese was negligent,” Geoff Budden, a lawyer representing about 60 claimants, said in an interview. “They knew or ought to have known that abuse was occurring and did not stop it from happening.
“The second thing we’re arguing is that by basic legal principles, they are responsible for the actions of the Christian Brothers who were really their agents in running Mount Cashel.”
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