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Conviction Christian institutions & contexts Catholic Kamloops and Mission, British Columbia, Canada · 2004

Canada: Kamloops and St. Mary's residential-school supervisor's conviction on twelve counts of sexual abuse

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Evidence status

Convicted

Authority role

Boys' supervisor at the Oblate-run Kamloops and St. Mary's Indian Residential Schools; subsequently resident of a Catholic monastery

Organization

Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate, Kamloops Indian Residential School, St. Mary's Indian Residential School

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The victims were Native children removed from their families into the custody of a Catholic religious order's own residential school, subject to the institutional authority the Oblates exercised over them as their custodians.

  • Institutional obedience or isolation
  • Pastoral or clerical authority

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Proceedings

  1. 2004-01-01 · conviction

    British Columbia, Canada. Gerald Mathieu Moran, a boys' supervisor at the Oblate-run Kamloops and St. Mary's Indian Residential Schools during the 1950s and 1960s, was convicted on twelve counts of sexual abuse following a multi-year RCMP investigation. He was 78 years old at trial and was sentenced to three years' imprisonment; he had been living as a monk in a Saskatchewan monastery at the time of his arrest.

Documented coercion mechanisms

  • residential custodial authority within a Catholic religious order's own institution, over children removed from their families into the order's care

Cited record

Sources

national newspaper investigation and arrest report The Globe and Mail: Four-year hunt ends in arrest.

Report of the RCMP investigation, Moran's identification as a supervisor at the Oblate-run schools, and his arrest.

reference secondary background summary Wikipedia: Kamloops Indian Residential School.

Confirms the school's operation by the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate and documents the Moran conviction and sentence.

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https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/four-year-hunt-ends-in-arrest/article713735/ Corpus classification: national-newspaper; evidentiary role: investigation-and-arrest-report. SHA-256 22009b19d571f01da7acbe17b8ed46f89db5d7c2cedbe0d5d6d23bccb71264c0
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamloops_Indian_Residential_School Corpus classification: reference-secondary; evidentiary role: background-summary. SHA-256 c1287c83b24367f27da79d5c2db57f67a89e02ff1f453a012b4ecb02f0498124
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