Last June, Superior Court Justice Michelle O’Bonsawin found McGrory guilty on two counts of gross indecency and two counts of indecent assault for crimes dating to the 1960s. The judge said McGrory used his position in the Catholic church to “exploit vulnerable and naïve young men for his own satisfaction.”But McGrory’s sentencing was repeatedly delayed, first because he failed to appear and then because of the months-long COVID-19 shutdown.
McGrory himself said former archbishop Joseph-Aurèle Plourde was aware of his predilection for adolescents and did nothing. Four years later, in 1991, McGrory was charged with sexually assaulting a 17-year-old Indigenous boy. He was convicted and issued a suspended sentence. Asked what it’s like to live with his history of sexual abuse, McGrory said: “It’s pretty awful. It’s absolutely disgusting, but I believe in a merciful God, and I would not have been able to survive that otherwise.”
One of them, Colleen Passard, was paid $300,000 in one of the largest clergy sex-abuse settlements ever negotiated by the diocese. She also launched a determined campaign to have McGrory formally removed from the priesthood. He was finally laicized by the Vatican in September 2018.In an email exchange Tuesday, Passard said it was right that McGrory did not die a priest.
In 1977, Erlandson said, she met with then-bishop John Beahan, one of the most powerful figures in the archdiocese, to relate her story of abuse. Beahan, however, made Erlandson feel the abuse was her fault, she said, and did nothing about McGrory’s criminality.Article content continued
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