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Other Christian institutions & contexts Catholic Quebec, Canada · 2021

Quebec: Brothers of the Sacred Heart reach $60-million court-approved settlement covering 250 victims and 93 abusers across fifty schools

Record class

Institutional event

Evidence status

Civil finding

Authority role

religious brother, teacher

Organization

Frères du Sacré-Cœur, Brothers of the Sacred Heart

Spiritual nexus

The Brothers of the Sacred Heart held live-in pedagogical and religious authority over boys in boarding and day schools; that authority, combined with institutional isolation, was the documented means by which 93 members accessed and abused students across roughly fifty establishments.

  • Pastoral or clerical authority
  • Institutional obedience or isolation

Evidence structure

Proceedings

  1. 2021-09-01 · settlement approved

    Quebec Superior Court (civil class action). Settlement protocol signed covering two class actions (including the 2016 action concerning Collège Mont-Sacré-Cœur de Granby) for sexual assaults by members of the Brothers of the Sacred Heart between 1932 and 2008; the congregation agreed to pay $60 million to compensate 250 identified victims of 93 named abusers across roughly fifty Quebec schools.

Documented coercion mechanisms

  • pastoral authority
  • institutional access
  • boarding-school isolation

Primary record

Sources

Wikipédia (2024) 'Abus sexuels dans la congrégation des Frères du Sacré-Cœur', Wikipédia. Available at: fr.wikipedia.org (Accessed: 19 July 2026).

French original: "À la suite de deux actions collectives pour des sévices sexuels au Québec, un protocole d'accord, signé en septembre 2021, permet le versement de 60 millions de dollars aux victimes des Frères du Sacré-Cœur. En septembre 2021, il est dénombré 250 victimes issues d'une cinquantaine établissements d'enseignement et 93 agresseurs membres des Frères du Sacré-Cœur, pour des abus sexuels entre 1932 et 2008." English gloss: Following two class actions over sexual abuse in Quebec, a settlement protocol signed in September 2021 provides for payment of $60 million to victims of the Brothers of the Sacred Heart. As of September 2021, 250 victims from about fifty schools and 93 abuser-members of the congregation were identified, covering abuse between 1932 and 2008.

Radio-Canada, 'Agressions sexuelles : les Frères du Sacré-Cœur verseront 60 millions aux victimes'. Available at: ici.radio-canada.ca (Accessed: 19 July 2026).

Confirms the $60-million amicable settlement between the Brothers of the Sacred Heart and class-action plaintiffs over decades of sexual abuse at the congregation's Quebec institutions.

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