The archdiocese and St. Thomas More Collegiate high school filed their claims last week in response to an ongoing class action lawsuit that has claimed abusive teachers targeted students in Vancouver for decades after they were transferred from the notorious Mount Cashel orphanage in Newfoundland.
The lawsuits come weeks after the original lawsuit was certified as a class-action, which lawyers said paved the way for as many as 65 survivors from the Vancouver area to come forward. Those same lawyers described the defendants' decision to file separate lawsuits in response to the claim as "unusual" but not a deterrent.
The class action said the Catholic order that ran Mount Cashel, the Christian Brothers of Ireland, knowingly transferred abusive teachers from the orphanage to B.C., where they went on to sexually and physically abuse more children from 1976 to 2013. "Any such injury, loss, damage or expense sustained by the class was caused by the fault, negligence, breach of fiduciary duty, and/or breach of duty, statutory or otherwise, of the Defendants, and not by any act or omission of [STMC]," the lawsuit read.In a similar vein, the Archdiocese of Vancouver denied any abuse. It said the province could be to blame for any damage done by one teacher in particular.
Both organizations are asking the courts to declare any damage was caused by the teachers themselves. The school said the Christian Brothers should also be held accountable, while the archdiocese pointed to the Christian Brothers.In an email, STMC declined to comment further on the new lawsuit.
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