Class Action Against Séminaire Saint-Alphonse, the Redemptorists and Father Raymond-Marie Lavoie
Resolved Class Action
Kugler Wechsler wins Class action for sexual abuse committed by members of the religious order, the Redemptorists, as well as Séminaire Saint-Alphonse.
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On July 10, 2014, Kugler Wechsler obtained a landmark judgment against the religious order, the Redemptorists, as well as against Séminaire Saint-Alphonse, on behalf of numerous victims of sexual abuse.
The Judgment marked the first time in Québec history that a Québec court condemned a religious order to pay damages to a group of individuals who were sexually abused by the order’s members.
Kugler Wechsler successfully proved that as many as eleven priests sexually abused children attending the religious boarding school in a systemic manner over a period of more than 25 years.
Following the judgment, Kugler Wechsler settled the case and recovered $20 million for class members.