WARNING: This story contains details of sexual abuse.
The lawyer for a man who claims he was sexually assaulted decades ago by a priest and teacher at a Catholic elementary school says a settlement in the case is proof of the need for a public inquiry into abuse within the church.
The Roman Catholic Archbishop of Vancouver — a legal entity representing the church — settled with the 55-year-old man known as ‘John Doe’ on the seventh day of a trial aimed at exposing what the victim claimed was a culture enabling the abuse that has hobbled him for years.
At the beginning of proceedings in
