Decision about liability for decades-ago abuse at Mount Cashel in hands of Appeal Court

Geoff Budden (left), who represents men who were abused as boys in the Mount Cashel orphanage, chats with lawyer Mark Frederick, who represents the Archdiocese of St. John’s, in court Thursday.  A long-dead parish priest and the question of his responsibility to address sexual abuse of boys at the Mount Cashel orphanage several decades ago dominated the room at the Newfoundland and Labrador Supreme Court of Appeal as the case clewed up Friday.

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