Retired B.C. teacher named in 3 sexual abuse lawsuits

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The complainant in a civil suit filed in B.C. Supreme Court says he ws sexually abused by a teacher in 2013 while attending St. Ann's Academy in Kamloops.

Alfred Quigley is named in civil claims filed by former students at St. Ann's Academy in Kamloop, O'Grady Catholic High School in Prince George, and Burnaby's St. Thomas More Collegiate.The complainant in a civil suit filed in B.C. Supreme Court says he was sexually abused by a teacher in 2013 while attending St. Ann's Academy in Kamloops.

None of the allegations have been proven in court. CBC News reached out to Quigley in Newfoundland, where he now lives, but did not receive a response. "The Diocese of Kamloops is committed to responding fairly and compassionately to all claims of historic sexual abuse," the statement said. The Kamloops claim says Quigley is a member of the Congregation of Christian Brothers, a lay ministry of the Roman Catholic Church, and was "at one or more times throughout his lifetime engaged as an educator and residence director at Mount Cashel Orphanage in Newfoundland."in Canadian history, where more than 100 boys were physically and sexually abused by the Christian Brothers who ran the orphanage over the span of many decades.

 

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