Vancouver lawyer Joe Fiorante is representing the survivors of the suicide bombing and the widows of the dead.
A case that began with one man’s allegations against a Catholic school teacher surreptitiously shipped across the country has now grown into a behemoth class-action with more than 200 claimants.Joe Fiorante, of CFM Lawyers, is lead counsel for the former students alleging long-term physical and sexual abuse at a pair of British Columbia private schools.
"What's shocking to us is that the abuse was able to continue for so long without there being any real form of public investigation or scrutiny into it, especially following the exposure of the Mount Cashel scandal." Unbeknownst to the students in the school at the time, English had confessed to abusing boys at the Mount Cashel Orphanage in St. John's in 1975. The province, police and Christian Brothers concocted a coverup, sending English and fellow brother Alan Ralph — who also confessed — to British Columbia to avoid charges.News of the coverup broke in 1989. Liptrot didn't find out until 2014, bringing back painful memories of his time at the school.
Fiorante's firm, CFM Lawyers, is appealing to the public to come forward if they were abused, or if they witnessed abuse at the two schools. Fiorante also believes there's more information still to uncover, and more plaintiffs to come forward.St. Thomas More Collegiate and Vancouver College sparked hope in 2023 when both schools published memos on their websites signalling their intent to settle the lawsuit through mediation.
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