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Monday January 21, 2008
Community of Jesus • Grenville Christian College:
Life behind the stately walls of Grenville Christian College was “stranger than fiction,” according to a former student who is part of a second class-action lawsuit seeking $225 million in damages for alleged physical and sexual abuse at the former private boarding school east of Brockville.
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Thursday January 17, 2008
Community of Jesus • Grenville Christian College:
A second lawsuit filed against Grenville Christian College and the Anglican Diocese of Ontario claims the now-closed private school was operated as a mind-control cult that left former students physically, mentally and sexually traumatized.
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Tuesday November 6, 2007
Community of Jesus • Grenville Christian College:
A lawsuit alleging decades of abuse of former students has been launched against Ontario’s Grenville Christian College, the Anglican Church of Canada and two of its priests, and a Massachusetts group known as the Community of Jesus.
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Thursday November 1, 2007
Community of Jesus • Grenville Christian College:
Grenville Christian College, the now-closed Ontario private school at the centre of cult abuse allegations, has been put up for sale and a lawyer representing some of the former students is considering applying for an injunction to halt any transaction in advance of possible lawsuits.
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Friday October 19, 2007
Community of Jesus • Grenville Christian College:
Anglican officials yesterday put in limbo their inquiry into abuse allegations against two priests who were headmasters of a now-closed private school in Eastern Ontario – angering several former students who accused the church of trying to protect itself from legal action.
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Tuesday October 9, 2007
Community of Jesus • Grenville Christian College:
How a bizarre religious group fabricated by two charismatic women sparked controversy and alleged abuse at an elite Ontario private school.
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Wednesday October 3, 2007
Community of Jesus • Grenville Christian College:
Ms. Larmondin is critical of Bishop George Bruce of the Eastern Ontario diocese, where Grenville is located, for issuing a “pastoral statement” stating that at no time did his diocese have responsibility or control over the school.
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Community of Jesus • Grenville Christian College:
The Bishop of the Anglican Diocese of Ontario has invited former priests accused of wrongdoing at Grenville Christian College to face the allegations made against them in a church inquiry into the scandal at the now-closed private school.
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Monday October 1, 2007
Community of Jesus • Grenville Christian College:
All but a handful of the Grenville staff were avowed members of the Community of Jesus, a Massachusetts-based organization that has been labelled a cult in U.S. media reports.
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Saturday September 29, 2007
Community of Jesus • Grenville Christian College:
A scandal has been swirling over allegations of cult practices and abuse at Grenville Christian College since it suddenly shut down last month.
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Wednesday September 26, 2007
Community of Jesus • Grenville Christian College:
An Anglican bishop reviewing allegations of cult practices and abuse at Grenville Christian College has been advising former students who believe they were the victims of criminal acts to file formal complaints with police, said a senior official for the diocese.
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Saturday September 22, 2007
Community of Jesus • Grenville Christian College:
The inquiry into Grenville Christian College has entered a new phase with the Ontario Provincial Police confirming they are studying allegations from former students who claim they were abused and assaulted at the now-closed private school.
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Friday September 21, 2007
Community of Jesus • Grenville Christian College:
Steve Hassan, a licensed mental health counselor in Somerville and mind control expert, sees common ground between the boot camp at Grenville, as described by Price English, and behavior at the Community of Jesus that he first learned about in 1985 after he was contacted by members of the church.
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Saturday September 15, 2007
Community of Jesus • Grenville Christian College:
The Anglican priest alleged to have abused students through cult practices at an Eastern Ontario elite private school may face a rare ecclesiastical court convened by the bishop who is investigating his behaviour.
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Thursday September 13, 2007
Community of Jesus • Grenville Christian College:
A lawyer based in Burlington is drafting a class-action lawsuit for hundreds of former Grenville Christian College students alleging decades of psychological and physical abuse at the now-closed private school east of Brockville.
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Thursday September 6, 2007
Community of Jesus • Grenville Christian College:
For the fifth time in 28 years, the Community of Jesus is fielding allegations about cult-like behavior, mind control and excessive discipline among the families and monastic orders at its site at Rock Harbor.
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Tuesday September 4, 2007
Community of Jesus • Grenville Christian College:
Ruth Buddington was 13 when she was brought to Grenville Christian College in Brockville, Ont., as a prisoner of her cult-member parents.
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Saturday September 1, 2007
Community of Jesus • Grenville Christian College:
Ontario’s Grenville Christian College, which has closed amid allegations of cult practices, was an emotionally, spiritually and sometimes physically abusive place that caused “hurt and pain” to staff and students, a former senior administrator of the elite private school acknowledged Friday.
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Community of Jesus • Grenville Christian College:
The staff of Brockville's newspaper knew nearly 20 years ago of allegations of religious cult practices at Grenville Christian College but backed off from publishing an article because of legal threats and sources who changed their minds about allowing their names to be used.
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Friday August 31, 2007
Community of Jesus • Grenville Christian College:
Former students of Grenville Christian School, a private religious college, tell of exorcisms and harsh discipline.
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Community of Jesus:
The Community of Jesus, a small, communal Christian sect in Massachusetts that stresses discipline and rejects homosexuality has made an effort in recent years to leave behind its shadowy past and accusations of psychological abuse.
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- Police launch criminal probe into Grenville Christian College
- Mothers of invention: the women behind the Community of Jesus
- Second class-action suit against Grenville Christian College seeking $225M in damages
- Dark past behind school's demise
- Former students suing Grenville Christian College, others
- Class-action suit being prepared against Grenville Christian College
- Christian sect with shadowy past has 'evolved over the years'
- Grenville Christian College faces new $200-million lawsuit
- Emotional headmaster apologizes at gathering of Grenville Christian College alumni
- Online chats, Canadian probe put Cape Cod church under scrutiny
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