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Conviction Christian institutions & contexts Catholic Williams Lake and Kuper Island, British Columbia, Canada · 1991

Canada: Oblate brother Glenn Doughty convicted across two proceedings of sexually abusing Indigenous children at two British Columbia residential schools

Record class

Core record

Evidence status

Convicted

Authority role

Glenn Doughty, Oblate of Mary Immaculate brother, boys' supervisor and child care worker at St Joseph's residential school, Williams Lake, and a residential school on Kuper Island, British Columbia, 1963-1972

Organization

Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate, St Joseph's residential school, Williams Lake

Spiritual nexus

Doughty's victims were Indigenous children held in Oblate-run residential schools where he served as their direct custodial supervisor, a role inseparable from his standing as a religious brother of the order operating the schools.

  • Pastoral or clerical authority
  • Institutional obedience or isolation

Evidence structure

Proceedings

  1. 1991-01-01 · conviction and sentence

    British Columbia court. Doughty was convicted on four counts of gross indecency against four Indigenous children at St Joseph's residential school near Williams Lake and sentenced to one year in jail.

  2. 2000-06-01 · further charges and conviction

    British Columbia court. Doughty, then 62, faced 36 further charges dating from the 1960s and 1970s involving 13 young people aged six to eighteen, arising from his roles as a boys' supervisor and child care worker at St Joseph's, Williams Lake, and the residential school on Kuper Island between 1963 and 1972.

Documented coercion mechanisms

  • residential supervisory authority over Indigenous children removed from their families and placed in Oblate-run residential schools
  • clerical status as a religious brother within the residential school system

Primary record

Sources

national newspaper court reporting court reporting The Globe and Mail, 'Oblate brother faces dozens of sex charges' (2000).

Reports the 36 further charges, the 1963-1972 period, and the two residential schools involved, and recaps the 1991 conviction.

national broadcaster court reporting court reporting CBC News, 'Oblate brother facing sex charges' (2000).

Corroborates the charge count and victim ages for the 2000 proceeding.

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