Toronto Christian Brothers settle suit
A call has gone out for men abused as children in an Ontario reform school in the wake of a recent tentative deal between victims and Toronto Christian Brothers.
Lawyers have been unable to locate 54 men involved in a class action lawsuit filed against the Catholic religious order for failing to fulfil financial obligations set out in a 1992 abuse settlement. The class action was launched by Vancouver resident David McCann in 2002 in a bid to recover more than $1.7 million still owed to some victims of abuse at St. Joseph's Training School in Alfred, Ont., east of Ottawa.
McCann, who was sent to St. Joseph's as a child, negotiated the original $16-million compensation package for 1,600 victims of abuse at that institution and at St. John's at Uxbridge, Ont., near Toronto.
Read the article at CNEWS dated January 8, 2004
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