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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

Record class

Core record

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

Spiritual nexus

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

Evidence structure

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

Primary 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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