Canada: St Anne's residential-school nun convicted of assaults and administering a noxious substance
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Evidence status
Convicted
Authority role
nun and supervisor at a church-run residential school
Organization
St Anne's Indian Residential School
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The victims were Indigenous children removed into a church-run school where a nun's religious office and custodial power were one authority.
- Institutional obedience or isolation
Evidence structure
Proceedings
1999-01-01 · conviction and sentence
Ontario court, Canada. Anna Wesley, a nun and supervisor at St Anne's Indian Residential School in the 1950s–60s, was convicted in 1999 of three counts of common assault, three counts of administering a noxious substance, and one count of assault causing bodily harm against students in her care, receiving an 11-month conditional sentence. St Anne's is separately notorious for a homemade electric chair used on children.
Documented coercion mechanisms
- custodial and disciplinary authority over Indigenous children
- punishments including forced ingestion
Cited record
Sources
- national public broadcaster verdict report CBC News coverage of the Anna Wesley convictions at St Anne's (1999; retrospectives).
Canada's public broadcaster on the convictions and the institution's history.
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- https://www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/st-annes-nun-residential-school-charges-1.7001318 Corpus classification: national-public-broadcaster; evidentiary role: verdict-report.
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