A Catholic order shuffled known abusers from a notorious Newfoundland orphanage to two schools in the Vancouver area where more boys were victimized, a lawsuit alleges. Vancouver College is also a defendant and said it learned Monday of "deeply troubling allegations of abuse'' in the 1980s. "Vancouver College expresses profound concern and sympathy to anyone who has been impacted in any way by any abuse.'' The lawsuit says that RCMP began investigating allegations of sexual abuse at Mount Cashel in 1975 and English confessed to police that he had sexually abused boys at the orphanage. McHugh was involved in sending English in 1976 to St. Thomas More, where he taught until 1981, the lawsuit says.

Source: CBC News February 09, 2021 02:03 UTC