After spending seven years being abused at a residential school in Saskatchewan, Fred Gordon says he is not surprised that the remains of 215 children were found buried near a former residential school in Kamloops, B.C.
The residential school survivor told CTV News Channel on Monday that he attended Lebret Indian Industrial Residential School from 1944 to 1951. Gordon says he was kidnapped when he was nine-years-old and taken to the school.
"There was a father, Father Roberto, you looked in that priest's eyes and you saw nothing, there was no emotion, no nothing there," Gordon said. "And he used to come into the dormitories... and I'd see him take a kid out to go and abuse him somewhere in the school." "During the day, we had normal classes, we had good playground, everything looked normal, but at night, these animals came out and abused us all the time," Gordon said.remains of 215 children were found"The amount of bodies that were found, that was surprising, but dead children was no surprise," Gordon said.
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