Canada. Dad sues group home after girl allegedly gang raped

This story leaves one to wonder how many other stories are out there not reported.

MONTREAL – A child-protection agency near Montreal faces a $408,000 lawsuit amid allegations that a 10-year-old girl was repeatedly raped by five boys aged 10-12 while under its care.

The lawsuit, filed by the girl’s father, says young assailants performed numerous sex acts on the girl inside a school bus and at a group home. The child’s ordeal was painstakingly recounted in the lawsuit, filed last week in Longueuil, a suburb of Montreal.

The suit says the girl, nicknamed Amanda (fictitious name), moved to the group home, L’Amaryllis, in 2008 just after her 10th birthday. She had been placed in the home after she was molested by her step-father.

Not long afterward, she was sexually assaulted at night “on several occasions” by two boys, aged 10 and 12.The court documents allege that Amanda told her mother about the assaults and that the woman notified agency officials, but that “nothing was done to deal with (the) abuse.”

The girl began to show behavioural problems and ran away several times, leading officials to move her to another group home. It was at the second home that she was abused again, the lawsuit alleges. Three boys, between the ages of 11 and 12, would corner her inside a school bus on the way to class and force her to submit to various sex acts.

The lawsuit’s allegations have not been proven in court.

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