Sex-abuse lawsuits filed against province
Three men filed notices of action in Court of King’s Bench this year alleging Kingsclear Training School guard Karl Toft sexually assaulted them as boys in the 1960s to 1980s
Three former New Brunswick residents have filed lawsuits against the provincial government, seeking damages for allowing them to be sexually abused by an infamous pedophile decades ago.
John Joseph Paul, Charles Rector and Robert Thibeau all filed notices of action and statements of claim Oct. 15 in the Court of King’s Bench in Fredericton against the province, and specifically the Department of Justice and Public Safety.
All three court filings allege the plaintiffs were victims of New Brunswick’s most notorious sexual abuser, Karl Toft.
Toft worked for decades as a correctional officer at the former Kingsclear Training School just outside of Fredericton, where underage offenders were incarcerated and where wards of the province were also housed.