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Another religious order found itself on Thursday the object of a lawsuit alleging sexual assaults were committed nearly 60 years ago. A request for a class action suit was filed in Montreal Superior Court against the Frères des Écoles chrétiennes.

The class action seeks $600,000 in damages for each of the alleged victims of Onil Mailhot, known as “Brother Patrice,” and who died last May 18.

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According to the filing, the principal plaintiff, identified only as A.B. and now 66 years old, alleges he was sexually assaulted by Mailhot when he was between the ages of seven and eight and attending the École Dominique-Savio in Forestville, where Mailhot was assigned in 1960-61. Forestville is across the St. Lawrence River from Rimouski, about 400 kilometres northeast of Quebec City.

The filing contends assaults “generally took the form of touching or masturbation,” “occurred generally in the basement of the school in a storage room” and “occurred on numerous occasions.”