VANCOUVER (BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA)
Coast Reporter
October 8, 2019
By Jeremy Hainsworth
‘He shoved his ugly tongue in my mouth. I hated it. I prayed to God to stop it.’
A woman seeking help from a Kamloops Roman Catholic priest dealing with grief from her father’s death in 1976 instead found herself being groped by him in his office, BC Supreme Court heard Oct. 8.
Rosemary Anderson alleged in a Dec. 22, 2016, notice of civil claim the sexual abuse at the hands of Father Erlindo “Lindo” Molon, now 86, started when she was 26 when she sought solace after her father’s death. She names Molon and the Roman Catholic Bishop of the Diocese of Kamloops, A Corporation Sole in the claim.
The court has heard Anderson went to then Bishop Adam Exner with her concerns about Molon.
Anderson had moved to the Interior city to take up a teaching job with the diocese after doing practicum work in Rock Creek and later in Greenwood.
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