Silence surrounding student-on-student abuseFormer chairman of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission Sen. Murray Sinclair has referred to student-on-student abuse as an "unspoken truth" of residential schools. "Student-on-student abuse is different than the abuse inflicted on children by pedophiles," said Moran. It was the adults abusing children in the most heinous and unbelievable ways that created this rampant process of student-on-student abuse." The IAP has been criticized for the high bar of proof claimants had to meet when it came to student-on-student abuse. "[Student-on-student abuse survivors] absolutely deserve the same level of compensation, absolutely deserve the same level of recognition and absolutely deserve the opportunity for healing and recovery from that unwanted, unwarranted and totally unacceptable abuse."

Source: CBC News March 13, 2018 22:41 UTC