My question involves child sex abuse in the province of Quebec, Canada:
I was sadistically sex abused by a priest at an all boys' private school in 1959. I only realized and discovered the abuse last year. There is already a class action against the school for vicarious liability. I have been diagnosed with chronic and severe PTSD but have had psychiatric problems all my life. Now I know why....My pscyhologist said the trauma was too great for me to enter my consciousness back then, but I suffered deeply all those years. But now it is there and I am furious.
Can the Board of directors be held criminally responsible for the sex abuse by the school's "vital organs -- the Anglican priest" by virtue of the identification theory? There are no statute of limitations here in Canada on sex abuse, and this person was a vital link in the corporate culture and operations of the school, as he had responsibility for 75 "new" boys living there in dormitories, plus he was the only priest giving daily prayers and Sunday service and its choirmaster. He held an extremely responsible position and role within the school, almost at par with the Board of Directors....as he disciplined boys to fit the corproate mindset, which at the timje was that of the "British" public school system, plus he was a Brit. More than 30 known boys were abused owith maybe 100's more. he was there 10 years.
montreal, Quebec, canada

