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Author: Darryl Greer
Publication Date: February 11, 2025 - 19:10
Catholic Diocese and school in B.C. settle abuse lawsuit for $3.4-million
February 11, 2025
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Prince George, B.C., says it hopes a $3.4-million settlement gives an alleged victim of sexual abuse by a school teacher “some degree of restitution for the harm that was so unjustly inflicted upon him by his abuser.”The settlement by the diocese and St. Thomas More Collegiate, a Catholic school in Burnaby, B.C., was announced in a statement released by lawyer Sandra Kovacs, who represented the anonymous man in the lawsuit.Also named in the lawsuit was former teacher Alfred Patrick Quigley, who the anonymous plaintiff said sexually abused him in the 1990s.
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