Canada: Basilian priest-teacher convicted after admitting abuse of dozens of students
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Basilian priest, teacher and principal at Catholic schools
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Basilian Fathers
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The victims were students at Catholic schools where the defendant's priesthood and teaching office were one authority; the institution's retention of him after repeated reports extended it.
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2013-01-01 · guilty plea and sentence; related civil awards
Saskatchewan court, Canada. Fr William Hodgson 'Hod' Marshall, a Basilian priest-teacher who admitted abusing dozens of boys across a 38-year career at multiple Catholic schools, was convicted on a guilty plea for assaults on two Saskatoon boys (1959, 1961), receiving a six-month conditional sentence. He had been reported six times over his career yet retained. Civil courts later awarded individual survivors multi-million-dollar judgments. Dismissed from the priesthood by Pope Benedict XVI in 2013; died 2014.
Documented coercion mechanisms
- priest-teacher authority over students across a 38-year career
- retention in role despite six reports
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- national newspaper court reporting verdict and civil awards report SooToday / Sudbury.com, reporting the conviction and subsequent civil awards (2013–2021).
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- https://www.sootoday.com/local-news/26-million-awarded-to-man-abused-by-former-principal-573760 Corpus classification: national-newspaper-court-reporting; evidentiary role: verdict-and-civil-awards-report.
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