TORONTO (CANADA)
CBC News
Nov. 17, 2019
By Laura Clementson and Gillian Findlay ·
The Catholic Archdiocese of Vancouver was aware of 36 cases of abuse by clergy under its jurisdiction, including 26 involving children, results of an internal review of cases of clergy sexual abuse obtained by CBC’s The Fifth Estate show.
The review, commissioned in 2018 by Archbishop Michael Miller, examined church files dating back to the 1950s. No Catholic entity in this country has ever made this kind of information public before.
The Vancouver review also found three of their priests had fathered children.
I think that the church has an ethical and moral responsibility to reveal those names.
– Leona Huggins, clergy sexual abuse survivor
The information was uncovered in a Fifth Estate investigation into how the Catholic Church has dealt with abuse allegations over the years.
Vancouver’s archbishop has not released the results of the case review committee’s work, but in February he promised transparency. In a letter posted to the archdiocese website, Miller committed “to correcting any systemic flaws that contributed to abuse or cover-up.”
The Fifth Estate investigation also reveals details about how the archdiocese handled allegations of abuse.
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