2024-07-04 18:51:22
The victims of the abuse at Mont d’Youville said they were happy with the settlement, but insisted that nothing will give them back what they lost during their time in this prison still in the captivity of their – youth today.
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“It’s not 300,000 or 400,000 that will give me back my damned youth,” insists Roch Drolet. “I was there four and a half years. I keep the scars on my body, but also inside.
The man, who also initiated criminal proceedings in relation to the abuse, hopes to one day receive an official apology. Both from the Sisters of Charity as well as the CIUSSS de la Capitale-Nationale and the Quebec government.
He is particularly angry with the government, which, with its upcoming amendment to the IVAC which will limit benefits to three years, is causing significant harm to him and other victims. And this is the moment when they got some peace of mind with the arrangement of the class activity.
“It gets me down. […] Me, like thousands of other people (on the IVAC), it ends in October. We do not know after that, it is the unknown. Shall we meet in the street? Psychologically, I am unable to return to work,” insists the man who is monitored every month for a diagnosis of post-traumatic stress disorder.
Avoid a long trial
Despite everything, all the victims admitted that they were happy to avoid the long trial that was going on before them.
Six months, everyone testifying, but above all being cross-examined by the defendants, this possibility worried some of the 600 registrants.
“It’s liberating to be able to do it alone in front of a retired judge,” says Christian Burgos, remembering that “the opposition party has done everything to reduce the channel.”
“For six years, we have been suffering an attack,” says Jean Simard, stressing that this feeling will continue during the trial.
Then, applicants also avoid long delays. Yes to the six month trial, but also to the appeal delays that would follow.
“There’s a deadline, it’s going to be respected and we’re going to be able to really move forward.”
For Jean Simard and Christian Burgos, this goal side by side, to support each other, is even more special as they face the abuse of Mont d’Youville educators together.
“We ran away to save ourselves from our attacker, together.”
Soon, they will find justice, together.
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