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Conviction Christian institutions & contexts Other or denomination not established Morley, Alberta, Canada · 1963

Canada (1963): Morley residential-school conviction for indecent assault

Record class

Core record

Evidence status

Convicted

Authority role

staff member at the United Church-run Morley Indian Residential School

Organization

Morley Indian Residential School (United Church)

Spiritual nexus

Church-school custody of Indigenous children.

  • Institutional obedience or isolation
  • Pastoral or clerical authority

Evidence structure

Proceedings

  1. 1963-01-01 · conviction

    Canadian court (documented in TRC final-report appendix). Robert G. Pooley, a staff member at the United Church-run Morley Indian Residential School in Alberta, was convicted of indecent assault in 1963, per the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's appendix — closing the corpus's 1925–1963 window at its far edge.

Documented coercion mechanisms

  • total institutional custody of Indigenous children in a church-run school

Primary record

Sources

official commission finding commission conviction listing Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, Final Report, Appendix 3.

The commission's official conviction listing.

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