Churches Liable For Residential School Abuse, Court Rules

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  orbison11

  greetings
  i hope this hasnt been posted yet. interesting part is about 'churches (organizations) must take care to protect the children'
  orbi Churches Liable For Residential School Abuse, Court Rules
  Oct, 22 2005 - 10:40 AM VANCOUVER(CKNWAM980) - Churches which ran native residential schools in the last century may not hide behind "charitable immunity" for abuses suffered by the children.
  That's one of the key points of a ruling by the Supreme Court of Canada on the notorious Alberni Residential School on Vancouver Island. The highest court split the liability 25% to the Church and 75% to the Federal Government, overturning a lower court ruling which had let the Church off the hook. Peter Grant, lawyer for plaintiff Leroy Barney, says this will have implications for other suits in the works. "Churches or charitable organizations must take care to protect the children that are in their care," he says. "I hope the Court's decision will persuade the Catholic church, because these issues right now are alive with respect to the Catholic church denying its shares in liability, that it will take responsibility for its operations in the schools as well." The Court says the Government has to wear the blame for its policies of putting native kids in the schools in the first place, and the Church for hiring the people who abused them. But the Court reduced the damages to Barney for the sexual abuse. He had also suffered mental and physical abuse, which are time-limited criminal offences, and the Court found that much of the harm he suffered would be due to that abuse, not solely the sexual abuse.
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  Will Power

  thanks for posting this. I will forward this on.
  
  sexual abuse many times is accompanied by emotional and spiritual abuse. and rightly so, should be recognized. When the sexual abuse is over, the emotional & spiritual continue, esp. when silence is coerced.
  
  wp