Former Mount Cashel residents seek $8M in damages for sexual, physical abuse
ST. JOHN’S, N.L. — Mount Cashel was a “repetitive nightmare” that never really goes away, say lawyers seeking $8 million in damages for four lead plaintiffs in a civil lawsuit.
Roman Catholic church officials are accused of doing nothing to stop the often sadistic sexual and physical attacks by Christian Brothers who preyed on vulnerable boys at the once-iconic orphanage in St. John’s, N.L.
As closing arguments wound down Thursday, lawyer Allison Conway described one plaintiff’s ordeal at the hands of a brother who beat him in the shower using a “refined strap.”
“We have a known pedophile ordering a young boy to strip naked and bend over while he beat him across the buttocks,” Conway said in provincial Supreme Court.