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CBC News
Jason Warick · CBC News
May 04, 2018
An Ontario man abused by a priest in the 1960s has won a record $2.5-million settlement against the Catholic Church, but some of Rev. Hodgson Marshall’s other victims said he could have been stopped years earlier in Saskatchewan
Fellow priests and teachers at Saskatoon’s St. Paul’s High School were well aware of Marshall’s abuse, the survivors said. He was known to students by the nickname “Happy Hands” and had a two-way mirror from his office into the boy’s change room, they said. One said he told a fellow teacher of the abuse in the confession booth and was told to say 10 Hail Marys and go back to class.
In 1961, Marshall was transferred out of Saskatoon to Ontario where the abuse continued.
‘Just kept moving him’
“He went to a lot of other places after us. They just kept moving him around and I don’t know what they were thinking. They just put him in touch with more kids. They were giving him gifts rather than kicking him out of the church and taking legal action,” former St. Paul’s student Gary Mulligan said in an interview with CBC News Thursday.
Fellow St. Paul’s student Tim Ryan agreed.
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