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Sexual Abuse
Former Vernon Catholic priest being sued over sex abuse allegations
VERNON – A Vernon man has launched a court case against a former Catholic priest…
Catholic church settles Vernon lawsuit, apologizes for sexual abuse
Two brothers who were sexually abused by a Catholic priest in Vernon during the 1970s…
B.C. man suing after allegedly being sexually abused at Vernon care home
A B.C. man is suing the province alleging he was sexually abused while living in…
North Okanagan senior who raped his granddaughter gets 4 years jail
A 77-year-old North Okanagan man who repeatedly sexually abused his 14-year-old granddaughter will spend four…
Woman suing Catholic church alleging sexual abuse at Vernon school
CONTENT ADVISORY An Okanagan Indian Band member is suing the Catholic Church alleging she was…
B.C. nurse accused of sexual misconduct loses licence
A B.C. nurse who faced multiple allegations of sexually inappropriate conduct over a period of…
Ontario man alleges he was groomed at Vernon cadet camp, then raped
An Ontario man who alleges he was groomed at the Vernon cadet camp before being…
‘PRONE TO SIN’: OKIB elder suing Catholic church for historic abuse
Growing up at the Head of the Lake in the early 1960s, Laurie Wilson remembers…
Art show stripped from college walls goes up at local gallery
VERNON - A controversial art show pulled from the gallery at Okanagan College in Vernon has a new space to continue the conversation. Local artist Ryan Robson’s evocative female portraits, which were deemed too disturbing for the walls of the college, will be displayed at Gallery Vertigo until the end of the month. The paintings...