A year later and there has been no update on this:
“Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) have laid three gross indecency charges against a 97-year-old Ottawa woman, alleging she was involved in sexual assaults in the 1960s and 1970s in northern Ontario residential and day schools.
“The accused, Francoise Seguin, was a nun with the Sisters of Charity of Ottawa who worked at St. Anne’s Indian Residential School in Fort Albany, Ont., between 1958 and 1968, {Segregated} ‘CBC ‘Indigenous’ has learned.
“Seguin’s name appears on a list of nuns who worked at St. Anne’s, which the sisters provided the OPP in 1994 after the force opened a probe into sexual and physical abuse allegations at the institution.
“Seguin’s date of birth on this list, obtained by ‘CBC ‘Indigenous’ on Thursday, matches that of the accused provided by the OPP.
“St. Anne’s ‘survivor’ {The Aboriginal Industry’s pejorative term for ‘former student’} Evelyn Korkmaz recalled accompanying a class returning to Fort Albany from a trip under Seguin’s supervision.
“A photo taken when they arrived at St. Anne’s shows the young Korkmaz beside Seguin, with the class behind them dressed in stereotypical fringed buckskin jackets and feathered headbands.
“At the time, I knew nothing of the abuses that took place there, and I thought she was one of the good guys“,
Korkmaz recalled in an interview.
“But obviously not.”
“Seguin is scheduled to appear in court in Moosonee in December, police said.
“The charges are unproven.
“Seguin was named separately on a list of alleged perpetrators filed in the Ontario Superior Court of Justice in 2003. She was also known as Francoise Rachel and ‘Weebajo’, which means ‘Walrus’, the documents say.
“She had big teeth“,
they add.
“OPP spokesperson Bill Dickson confirmed Seguin was a nun/teacher and confirmed St. Anne’s was one of the residential schools involved, the other being Bishop Belleau School in Moosonee. Police said alleged incidents also occurred at a detention facility in Sudbury, where newspaper archives place Seguin in 1980.
“Someone came forward about the incidents late last year {More than 40 years later?}, leading to the filing of charges on Wednesday “following an extensive investigation“, according to a press release announcing the charges.
‘Call for apology’
“Korkmaz said the filing of charges may provide closure to the ‘survivors’ Seguin allegedly abused. But Korkmaz also expressed doubt Seguin would be incarcerated, given her advanced age.
“Anna Betty Achneepineskum, deputy grand chief Nishnawbe Aski ‘Nation’ {A northern Ontario Aboriginal lobbying organization masquerading as a ‘Nation’}, representing 49 ‘First Nations’ {Indian tribes} in northern Ontario, commended the person who came forward.
“The laying of charges against a nun will help validate ‘survivors’ experiences and contribute to their own healing, Achneepineskum said. She felt it sends a strong message to the Sisters of Charity, as well.
“They have to acknowledge their role in terms of the traumas and the role that they played in these Indian residential schools because right now, they’ve been able to get off scot-free“,
Achneepineskum said by phone on Thursday.
“Filing a charge against a nun is very significant in terms of ensuring the Sisters of Charity are held accountable.”
“‘CBC ‘Indigenous’ left two voicemails with the Sisters of Charity of Ottawa, also known as the Grey Nuns of the Cross, but has not received a reply. The sisters are a Catholic missionary order that helped run St. Anne’s, alongside the Oblates of Mary Immaculate.
“‘Survivors’ have recounted {unsubstantiated} horrors at St. Anne’s, including punishment via makeshift electric chair {See below} and having to eat their own vomit when ill.
“Korkmaz said the Sisters of Charity should apologize.
“An apology helps through acknowledgement and accountability and ownership of the wrongs that were done to us“,
she said.
“A lot of Canadians still are baffled by the {claimed} amount of abuse that took place in this school.”
“Gross indecency was a criminal offence before the late 1980s, when laws were updated.
“Types of sexual activity that were historically considered to be ‘immoral’ or ‘unnatural,’ but fell short of intercourse, were prohibited by the ‘gross indecency’ offence“,
according to a federal government backgrounder.
‘Previous charges at Fort Albany school’
“The National Centre for ‘Truth’ and ‘Reconciliation’ (NCTR) says St. Anne’s Residential School operated in Fort Albany from 1906 to 1976. There were also day schools in the Fort Albany area from 1894 to 1990, including St. Anne’s.
“For more than a century, ‘Indigenous’ {sic, Aboriginal} children in Canada were forced {ALL Canadian children were ‘forced’ to attend school!} to attend schools aimed at stripping away their culture and language {Teaching them to read & write}. Many {How “many”?} also suffered physical and sexual abuse at these institutions.
“Residential schools kept children there overnight {Because children were often hundreds of miles away from home}, while day schools allowed them to go home.
“St. Anne’s had as many as 280 elementary and junior high students during the time of the alleged offences, according to federal documents shared by the NCTR, which noted allegations of sexual, physical and mental abuse, suspicious deaths and use of an electric chair for punishment {See below}. Five other former staff members have been criminally charged.
“There are plans to search the old St. Anne’s property with ground-penetrating radar this winter.
“The Bishop Horden Hall residential school had 200 or more children up to Grade 7 at this time. The NCTR doesn’t similarly note criminal charges there in its documents.”
–‘Ottawa woman, 97, charged with historical sexual assaults at residential, day schools’,
Brett Forester, CBC News, Oct. 12, 2023 Last Updated: October 19, 2023
https://www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/residential-day-school-sexual-assault-charge-ontario-1.6993540
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“A 97-year-old nun has been criminally charged in a historical sexual-assault case connected to a ‘notorious’ residential school in Northern Ontario.
“Francoise Seguin, 97, of Ottawa, has been charged with three counts of gross indecency – a criminal code offence that was repealed in 1987 – the Ontario Provincial Police announced Thursday. She is scheduled to appear in Moosonee court on Dec. 5.
…
“OPP Spokesperson Bill Dickson said Ms. Seguin was a nun and teacher at the schools. He said the case involves a single victim who was a young male student at the time. Mr. Dickson said he is not aware of any other potential victims.
…
“According to the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation, previous investigations have led to convictions against four former staff members on charges including indecent assault, assault causing bodily harm, assault and administering a noxious substance.
…”
–‘97-year-old nun charged with historical sexual assaults at residential schools’,
Molly Hayes, Toronto Globe & Mail, October 12, 2023 – Updated October 14, 2023
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“Misinformation on the so-called “electric chair“, ostensibly at St. Anne’s rez school. It was nothing of the sort. It was a Van de Graaff static electricity generator used to teach kids about static electricity.
“The wooden chair children sat on was to provide insulation from the charge of electricity that made their hair stand on end. Small Van de Graaff generators are built by hobbyists and are simple mechanical devices, often built in science classes. Not torture devices.”
https://twitter.com/sal_e_4th/status/977240582476136448
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‘Residential School ‘Survivor’ speaking about the electric chair @ St. Anne’s is in Fort Albany in northern Ontario’
–Admits they weren’t strapped in…
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“Ottawa argued against the electric chair compensation claims from 2007, when the settlement agreement came into force, until late 2015, when the Justin Trudeau government ordered an end to the argument…
“95.2% of St. Anne’s claims received compensation, a rate above the 89.2% rate for all residential school claims.”
–‘Ottawa initially fought St. Anne’s residential school electric chair compensation claims’,
Jorge Barrera, CBC News, Dec.02, 2017
See also:
‘Senator Beyak: For The Record’ (Senate Speech):
“Honourable Senators… I want to present a somewhat different side of the residential school story…”
https://endracebasedlaw.wordpress.com/2018/02/05/senator-beyak-for-the-record/
‘Residential Schools: Myths vs. Evidence’:
“Canadians are constantly being told that the Indian residential school system is at the root of the many dysfunctions in ‘indigenous’ {No, aboriginal} society today. Alcoholism, violence, poverty and poor educational attainment are all blamed on these schools, the last of which closed in the 1990s.
“Here are some myths and some facts:
“Myth: residential schools robbed all native kids of their childhoods.
Fact: the average stay was only 4.5 years and the vast majority of aboriginal youth never attended such a school...”
https://endracebasedlaw.ca/2019/09/03/residential-schools-myths-vs-evidence/
‘Blown Out of Proportion’:
“My great uncle was a Catholic priest teaching at a far north residential school in the 1960’s. I can tell you, this man had integrity, and would never have been involved in abuse, or even tolerated it around him. I believe a few cases of such abuse have been multiplied and blown out of proportion, to obtain settlements and perpetuate victimhood by some aboriginals. But not all. We don’t hear about the ones who had positive experiences in residential schools, do we? Why?”
https://endracebasedlaw.ca/2019/08/29/blown-out-of-proportion/
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