Lucien de Blois
Redemptorist priest. Ordained 13 June 1970. According to media reports was a nurse. Named in a class action lawsuit filed against a number of Redemptorist priests affiliated with the Redemptorists of the Province of Ste. Anne de Beaupry, Quebec. Trial started September 2013. According to media coverage, the suit alleges that the priests: “consulted with one another and conspired in an effort to determine which students they would abuse, and divided (the victims) up amongst themselves.” The other Redemptorist priests named in the lawsuit are: Fathers Raymond-Marie Lavoie, Guy Pilote,François Plourde, Xiste Langevin, Hervé Blanchette, Léon Roy, Alexis Trepanier, and Jean-Claude Bergeron,
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The following information is drawn from Canadian Catholic Church Directories (CCCD) which I have on hand, media (M)
1995: not listed (CCCD)
1993: not listed (CCCD)
1991: not listed (CCCD)
1985-86: 4957 rue Honorare Beaugrand, St. Augustin de Quebec (CCCD)
1973-74: St. Anne de Beaupre, Quebec (CCCD)
13 June 1970: ORDAINED
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Quebec priests face class-action lawsuit for sex abuse
50 alleged victims are asking for $100,000 apiece in damages
Posted: Sep 9, 2013 4:31 PM ET
Last Updated: Sep 9, 2013 8:28 PM ET
Seventeen men who claim they were sexually abused when they were boys at a seminary near Quebec City are expected to testify in court as part of a lawsuit against priests.
Court proceedings began today at the Quebec City courthouse for the largest sex abuse class-action lawsuit ever launched in Quebec.
Fifty alleged victims are seeking $100,000 each in damages, plus interest.
Though there have been other civil lawsuits against Quebec priests and religious institutions, this class-action lawsuit is the first to make it to court and be heard by a Quebec judge. All of the others were settled out of court.
The day’s proceedings started with a visit to the St-Alphonse Seminary in Ste-Anne-de-Beaupré, just outside the provincial capital.
The judge, the lawyers and the person who launched the lawsuit, Frank Tremblay, visited the site where a number of boys were allegedly assaulted by the seminary’s priests in the 1960s, ‘70s and ‘80s.
The visit was followed in court by the testimony of Raymond-Marie Lavoie, the only priest to have been successfully pursued in criminal court.
Lavoie is currently serving a three-year sentence after pleading guilty in July 2011 to assaulting 13 boys during the era he supervised the seminary’s dormitory.
Another of the St-Alphonse priests, Jean-Claude Bergeron, was arrested at the same time as Lavoie and pleaded guilty to molesting three boys. He hasn’t been sentenced yet.
The others named in the lawsuit are Guy Pilote, François Plourde, Xiste Langevin, Hervé Blanchette, Alexis Trépanier, Léon Roy and Lucien de Blois. Many of them are dead.
The proceedings are scheduled to last 20 days.
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Sexual abuse at St. Alphonsus Seminary: Behind the doors of the boarding
Le Soleil
16 July 2011
(Quebec) As his trial opened on Monday at the courthouse in Quebec, the Redemptorist priest Raymond-Marie Lavoie acknowledged that he had molested 13 alumni of Saint-Alphonse Seminary in Sainte-Anne-de- Beaupré. His guilty plea, however, is far from putting an end to this case pedophilia. Eight other priests were involved, according to a class action authorized against the religious congregation. But what has really happened at school? Who knew? Who Betrayed? Sun investigated.
In the dormitory of St. Alphonsus Seminary, was almost total darkness at bedtime. The only light came from the chamber of Redemptorist priest Raymond-Marie Lavoie, who had the habit of leaving the door ajar.
It is to this light that Sunday evening in October 1982, Frank Tremblay, 13, was headed. The second secondary student spent a day with his family in Charlevoix, and he was returned to boarding school in Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré reluctantly. Unable to sleep, he went to see Father Lavoie, who was watching the dorm to get some comfort.
The priest led the boy to watch TV sitting on his bed and was asked to lie down next to him. Then he slipped his hand under her pajamas and masturbated him.
From that evening, Raymond-Marie Lavoie Tremblay Frank sexually assaulted three to five times a week for four months in the dorm room of the priest and the nursing home Redemptorist priests, Saint-Tite-des -Caps.
Frank Tremblay today 42 years. It is a financial advisor outspoken, married and father of a five year old boy and a seven year old girl. Twenty-six years after being sexually abused by Father Raymond-Marie Lavoie assaulted, he was the first to file a complaint against him at the Sûreté du Québec, December 3, 2008. The investigation Detective Sergeant François Giguère, Executive regional surveys, has traced 12 other victims of the priest.
At the opening of his trial on Monday at the courthouse in Quebec Lavoie admitted molesting 13 alumni of the seminary in the 70s and 80s, while the victims were aged 12 to 16 years. At each of the 21 counts, the priest of 71 years, wearing a dark gray suit, stood up and said in a low voice: “Guilty” to judge Chantale Pelletier.
This plea, however, far from putting an end to this case pedophilia, which still leaves many troubling issues. Starting with allegations that Lavoie was not the only Redemptorist priest to sexually abuse minors Saint-Alphonse Seminary.
Disturbing allegations
In September and February, Father Jean-Claude Bergeron, 69, a former teacher and guardian of the seminary dormitory and appointed provincial superior of the Redemptorists in 1987, was accused of sexual offenses against a total of six alumni Seminar in the late 70s and early 80s. It has not yet been tried.
In parallel, the names of nine seminary priests were mentioned in the allegations of a class action authorized in November against Raymond-Marie Lavoie, Collège Saint-Alphonse (now called the College of High Peaks and located SaintTite-des-Caps , formerly the Séminaire Saint-Alphonse, closed in 2001) and the Redemptorists.
Lavoie and Bergeron are part of the new priests mentioned, as well as Guy Pilote, who was still two weeks ago the rector of the Basilica of Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré. The latter, however, has not been criminally charged. Fathers François Plourde, former director of the school, Xiste Langevin, Professor of catechesis, Hervé Blanchet, an English teacher, Alexis Trépanier, Professor of French, Leon Roy, professor, and Lucien De Blois, nurse, are also shown in the finger in the resort, but they all died before the first charges against Lavoie in 2009.
27 students mentioned
Frank Tremblay is the applicant of the class action, carried out in its name and on behalf of all those sexually assaulted by the Redemptorists between 1960 and 1987, while they were studying in Saint-Alphonse Seminary. The most recent request of Appeal states that 27 students have been sexually abused by Redemptorist priests. The list of alleged victims would however still longer.
Donald Courcy is one of them. Now aged 63, the man had studied at St. Alphonsus Seminary to become a priest. He says he was the victim of sexual touching on several occasions by the Langevin Xiste father in the early ’60s, when he was 13.
“When the opportunity arose, he [the father Langevin] made the world out of his office, he barred the door and made me sit on his lap, said Courcy. He was touching me on the genitals. He was trying to feel my to go further. I was afraid of him. And eventually I fled, I débarrais the door and I went. “
* Dominic, he had not yet arrived in Saint-Alphonse Seminary when he says he was touched by the father Langevin in the mid 70s. The priest had come home to Montreal to make him pass the admission of the Seminar, which recruited across Quebec exam. The French exam was held in the office of Father Dominic, door closed.
Former student seminar said that the priest touched his penis just after starting the timer for the review and he tried to start even after being push hand.
Nicknamed the “thrifty father,” Hervé Blanchet was responsible for administering the money that students receive from their parents to pay their small daily expenses. Fabien * recalls being made to caress the buttocks more than once going to ask for money to Blanchet and seeing other students getting hit in the same way.
Fabien recalls that the priest Blanchet, several alumni have described us as a “taponneux,” he used to say, “No need to talk, it’s just love.”
According to the request of the class action, Blanchet also sexually assaulted a 12 year old student on several occasions. This student, whom The Sun could not speak, would also have been attacked several times by the former director of Saint-Alphonse Seminary, Father François Plourde.
“When in December 1983, the student confronted Father Plourde on the grounds that grew to abuse him, it began to cry in his arms, indicating he had experienced the same thing in his youth” reads in the application of the class action.
A month later, in January 1984, François Plourde committed suicide. Students remember they were told he had died after falling from a ladder, winning the Christmas decorations. According to the coroner’s report, the priest died of “asphyxia by hanging.” Jean Lavoie, a former overseer educator Seminar father Plourde found hanged in his room, confirmed to the Sun last summer. “What I saw, it was not an accident.”
Mr. Lavoie never knew why Father Plourde was suicide. “It has always been a question I’ve asked myself,” he said.
Who knew?
As a dozen former employees of the Seminar that Sun has interviewed John Lavoie said he was surprised by the charges against Raymond-Marie Lavoie and he never saw a priest sexually abusing a student.
Jean-Marc Mageau worked at Saint-Alphonse Seminary from 1964 to 1993. Teacher, leader and director of the school, he said he was “shocked” by learning in the media the charges against his friend, Raymond-Marie Lavoie.
“Never a teacher, a leader, a student, parents, or anyone in the Seminar only hinted that things had to happen,” he told us last summer. “If it were otherwise, I would tell you. Because I’d be willing to go and testify in court. “
* Martin, he worked in the kitchens of Saint-Alphonse Seminary in the 80s. Unlike MM. Mageau and Lavoie, however, he remembers hearing students complain about priests.
“Maybe a week before the holidays, there are students who went and I asked them why they were going and they told me they were tired of getting taponner, he recalls. They do not speak openly in front of everyone, but at some point, do you pognais one and he emptied his bag. “
Martin, who said he never criticized anyone for fear of losing his job, believes many former employees suspected the priests of molesting students. “Everyone pretty much had doubts. But except that when you take the old generation of teachers, the older generation of support staff, trying not to make them speak against the fathers, it’s useless. “
Alarm signals
But before charges are brought against Raymond-Marie Lavoie and a proposed class action is filed, both alleged victims say they have alerted the priests of the Seminary.
Dominic remembers told his spiritual adviser, Father Gerard Lebel (died in 1996), he was touched by the Langevin Xiste father during his entrance examination. He was the third high school and was getting tired of output restrictions imposed on students of the Seminary, which prevented him from going to pick up girls Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré.
“I had been called to the office of Father Lebel and I told him that the father had tried fiddling Langevin me. We had a long discussion and I told him: “And that nobody talks about?” Dominic said Father Lebel tried to divert the issue and he never sought thereafter to learn more or to warn the direction of the seminary.
Nearly a decade after touching he says he suffered at the hands of Father Blanchet Fabien says he confided to Father Jean-Claude Bergeron. “He was very surprised, Fabien wrote us by email. But from that moment he knew. What has he done to denounce his colleague? I do not know. “
For Frank Tremblay, there is no doubt that the Redemptorists in authority knew that students were sexually abused by priests of the Seminary. On at least three occasions, he recalls, Raymond-Marie Lavoie led him sleep with another student in the middle of the week at the nursing home of the Redemptorists in Saint-Tite-des-Caps, where he was attacked in the same way that dorm.
The priest would then book a car that shared religious and be replaced at the dormitory in. Parking was at the sight of fifteen rooms of the monastery, says Tremblay.
Frank Tremblay said his parents were never informed of its output outside the school. He remembers that his dorm bed to empty and return in the morning with Raymond-Marie Lavoie by the refectory awakened the suspicions of other students. “What I can say is that we had to laugh at the other morning, he said. We did treat suceux tail, Darlings and fagots because the father returned with Lavoie and had been lying there. “
Well hidden secrets
On 21 May 2008, Mr. Tremblay told for the first time in his sexual abuse psychologist Raymond-Marie Lavoie subjected him in 1982. Before, he had never spoken.
After the first assault in the dorm room of the priest, Frank Tremblay remembers Lavoie had ordered him to go to the bathroom. “In the bathroom, I very ashamed, I’m afraid, Mr. Smith told us, last summer. I look in the mirror and say to myself. “Never, even under torture, I tell you what just happened ‘”
Dominic, he has waited 20 years before confiding in his mother. At 12, the former student did not dare denounce the priest. “It was obvious that my parents would not believe my version, he said. He is a priest who made me pass the exam. I was just a child … “
On Monday, the Crown prosecutor, Ms. Carmen Rioux read the statements of the 13 students that Lavoie admitted sexually assaulted. A former student said after he was assaulted by the priest, he had begged his parents to leave the boarding without daring to tell them why. Another former student told how he was “taboo” to talk to friends, even among the “darlings” of Lavoie.
Several said they had hidden their terrible secret until they are contacted by the police two years ago. “I buried this humiliation and shame well in my heart,” said one of the victims Lavoie in court Monday, saying that his faith in God had suffered because Lavoie was both to him a figure of religious authority and father.
This man was said to have retained significant psychological sequelae of abuse he suffered, like most victims of Lavoie. Several said they had problems with alcohol, drugs and hard to maintain healthy relationships with women. Some also asked many questions about their sexual orientation.
One of the alumni said that he had come out with transsexuals and had begun a transition to become a woman. Sexual abuse suffered at the school, he said, “I have really fucked up sexually.”
Frank Tremblay also doubted his sexual orientation. He has had several bouts of depression and alcoholism and considered suicide. His life, his marriage and his family have been strained by legal proceedings. And with the class action continues, the pressure is not about to fade.
Still, Frank Smith did not regret having made a complaint to the police against her attacker in 2008, and he is convinced of one thing: “. The only way to liberation is the information”
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Publié le 16 juillet 2011 à 05h00 | Mis à jour le 16 juillet 2011 à 16h10