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Judge Rules Residential School Survivor Shouldn’t Have Had to Prove Abuser’s ‘Sexual Intent'

Dozens of other claims were rejected on the same basis.

Students at St. Anne's Indian Residential School in Fort Albany, Ontario in 1945 (photo via Wikimedia)

A Manitoba judge has ruled that a residential school survivor shouldn't have had to prove that a nun who grabbed his penis was acting with a "sexual intent" in order to be compensated—a decision that could help at least dozens of others whose claims were rejected on the same basis.