Mount Cashel civil trial begins. Catholic officials sat on one side of Courtroom No. 2 Monday
at the Supreme Court of Newfoundland and Labrador while former Mount
Cashel orphanage residents and their supporters sat on the benches
across the aisle.
Mount Cashel abuse
claimants’ lawyer Geoff Budden (left) speaks with Toronto lawyer Mark
Frederick, who represents the Roman Catholic Episcopal Corp. of St.
John’s. They were at the first day of the start of the Mount Cashel
civil trial in the Supreme Court of Newfoundland and Labrador.
In the morning, the leads on two
teams of lawyers outlined opposing arguments of whether the Roman
Catholic Episcopal Corp. of St. John’s is liable for physical and sexual
abuse of boys by members of the lay order Christian Brothers at the
infamous orphanage from the 1940s to the 1960s.http://www.thetelegram.com/News/Local/2016-04-04/article-4487170/Who-were-you-going-to-tell/1