-Caveat Lector- article describes crimes - Bishop may convene rare ecclesiastical court Michael Valpy - From Saturday's Globe and Mail 9/15/07 The Anglican priest alleged to have abused students through cult practices at an Eastern Ontario elite private school may face a rare ecclesiastical court convened by the bishop who is investigating his behaviour. The judicial procedure – almost never used in the Anglican Church of Canada – would be triggered by Rev. Charles Farnsworth's refusal to accept either a finding by the bishop that the allegations are substantive or a sentence of punishment that the bishop might impose. It has been used perhaps half a dozen times over the past 170 years. Mr. Farnsworth, in a Globe and Mail interview, has denied any knowledge of students being abused sexually, psychologically or physically during the two decades ending in 1997 when he was headmaster of Grenville Christian College near Brockville, Ont. He also has denied the specific allegations against him. Bishop George Bruce, who heads the diocese in which the now-closed school is located, has interviewed or scheduled interviews so far with nearly 20 former students and will continue his investigation at least until the end of this month. He has told former students he is taking their allegations “very seriously” and that he will keep his investigation open until everyone who wants to be heard is heard....Former teachers have said all but one or two of the school's staff until at least 1997 were “oblates” of the Community of Jesus, an organization in Massachusetts that has been identified in the U.S. media as a cult. _http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20070915.grenville15/BNStory/National/home_ (http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20070915.grenville15/BNStory/National/home) Class-action suit being prepared against GCC By Kim Lunman - A lawyer based in Burlington is drafting a class-action lawsuit for hundreds of former Grenville Christian College students alleging decades of psychological and physical abuse at the now-closed private school east of Brockville. Personal injury lawyer Christopher Haber - who has been soliciting former pupils of the boarding school on an Internet message board where the allegations have surfaced - said "over 1,000" potential plaintiffs across North America have contacted him over the past several days. "We're currently reviewing and investigating the entire matter with the view to filing a class-action lawsuit on behalf of the victims," he said in a telephone interview. "We've had probably over 1,000 inquiries," said Haber. "The magnitude of the response did take us aback. ...There's all kinds of allegations of cruel and unusual punishment at the school." _http://newsfeed.recorder.ca/cgi-bin/LiveIQue.acgi$rec=23685_ (http://newsfeed.recorder.ca/cgi-bin/LiveIQue.acgi$rec=23685)
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