As a young child of twelve, Lou Ann Soontiens saw school as a place
of refuge. When the school's resident priest, Father Charles
Sylvestre, took an interest in her, she felt honoured and
privileged. She put her complete faith and trust in this
charismatic man of God and it resulted in years of sexual abuse,
humiliation, and an unwanted pregnancy.
This misplaced devotion would lead her to forty years of
confusion, guilt, and pain and, ultimately, to her being awarded,
by the Diocese of London, Ontario, the largest settlement ( 1.75
million Canadian dollars) ever given to an individual by the
Catholic Church in Canadian history.
It was not until Lou Ann reached middle-age that she found out
that she was not alone in her pain and guilt; at least forty-six
other women had experienced the same degradation at the hands of
Father Charles Sylvestre. Much to her shock, she discovered that
the Catholic Church had known about Father Sylvestre's abusive
nature, and, as with hundreds of other priests with the same
problem, chose to ignore the dangerous situation and quietly move
the offending priest to a new parish where the abuse of young
children would once again commence.
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