News briefs: Victim sues priest, diocese
https://archives.anglican.ca/link/article41148
- Author
- Williams, Leigh Anne
- Material Type
- Journal Article
- Journal
- Anglican Journal
- Date
- 2014 June
- Author
- Williams, Leigh Anne
- Material Type
- Journal Article
- Journal
- Anglican Journal
- Date
- 2014 June
- Volume
- 140
- Issue
- 6
- Page
- 6
- Notes
- "Chris Morrison, who former priest George Ferris was convicted of sexually abusing in the 1980s, is suing both Ferris and the diocese of Huron for $3.1 million. Ferris was sentenced in January [2014] to five and a half years in prison for assaulting Morrison and two other complainants. Morrison said he was abused by Ferris from 1983 to 1989, starting when he was about 12 years old and a member of St. James Anglican Church in Paris, Ont., where Ferris was the rector".
- Subjects
- Anglican Church of Canada. Diocese of Huron - Trials, litigation, etc.
- Morrison, Charles
- Ferris, George (George William), 1947-
- Sexual misconduct by clergy - Anglican Church of Canada
- Child sexual abuse - Religious aspects - Anglican Church of Canada
- Sexual abuse - Religious aspects - Anglican Church of Canada