Documentary record Bound by Fear
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Conviction Christian institutions & contexts Catholic St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada · 1991

Canada: Mount Cashel superintendent convicted of assaulting seven boys in his care

Record class

Core record

Evidence status

Convicted

Authority role

superintendent of Mount Cashel Orphanage (Christian Brother)

Organization

Mount Cashel Orphanage

Spiritual nexus

The victims were orphanage residents under the superintendent's absolute custodial and religious authority.

  • Institutional obedience or isolation
  • Pastoral or clerical authority

Evidence structure

Proceedings

  1. 1991-01-01 · conviction and sentence

    Newfoundland courts, Canada. Douglas Kenny, superintendent of Mount Cashel Orphanage from 1971 to 1976, was convicted on seven counts of indecent assault against seven boys in his direct custodial care and sentenced to five years — one of nine Christian Brothers convicted between 1989 and 1993 for abuse at the orphanage, with sentences from one to thirteen years.

Documented coercion mechanisms

  • total custodial and disciplinary authority over resident boys

Primary record

Sources

national public broadcaster verdict report CBC News, coverage of the Mount Cashel prosecutions and convictions (1989–1993).

Reports Kenny's conviction and the wider conviction set.

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