CANADA
National Post
Brian Hutchinson | 23/09/13
An Aboriginal man has come forward with allegations claiming that Vancouver Olympic Winter Games chief executive John Furlong sexually abused him on three occasions almost 40 years ago, at the same B.C. elementary school where other former students have accused Mr. Furlong of committing assaults.
In a statement of claim filed Monday in B.C. Supreme Court, Daniel Morice claims that during the 1969-1970 academic year, Mr. Furlong, then a physical education teacher at Immaculata Roman Catholic Elementary School in Burns Lake, B.C., “isolated” him in a small room at the school. On two occasions, the plaintiff claims, Mr. Furlong “removed his penis from his pants and showed it to the plaintiff and forced the plaintiff to touch and masturbate him.”
On the last occasion, Mr. Furlong “penetrated the plaintiff’s anus with his penis,” it is alleged. Mr. Morice, who now lives in Smithers, B.C., was nine years old at the time of the alleged events. The new accusations have not been tested in court.
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