The CBC reports:
Coy Nolin and his mother say they had no idea the four people in their living room were about to conduct a violent exorcism to cast out Coy’s “gay demons.” Coy says that three days earlier, in an office at Saskatoon’s Christian Centre Academy, the school’s director had interrogated him for several hours after informants told the director Coy is gay.
Coy, who was 16 years old at the time, says the director called him “evil” and “an abomination.” Coy was suspended and told they would try to “cure” him. Almost immediately after they walked into the house, the four officials placed their hands on Coy. They began yelling, grunting and making other unintelligible sounds known as “speaking in tongues.”
Read the full article. There’s SO much more, including allegations of beatings with a wood paddle.
CBC News has learned 18 former students of a private Christian school in Saskatoon have filed criminal complaints for alleged abuse, including paddling, coercion, traumatizing rituals and solitary confinement. https://t.co/WLO9nqaia7
— CBC News (@CBCNews) August 2, 2022
It’s been 422 days since I came forward to police about the abuse that went on at the K-12 Christian School I attended in Saskatoon. #saskatoon https://t.co/Hj5dxpDIpw
— SaskCate (@CateSask) August 2, 2022
Caitlin Erickson was the first of 18 former students of Saskatoon’s Christian Centre Academy, now called Legacy Christian Academy, to go to police. She says the degree of control exerted by school and church officials was similar to a cult. pic.twitter.com/oPrBff5d6Y
— Jessie Anton (@jessieanton_) August 2, 2022
Saskatoon police have completed an investigation of alleged assaults and other abuse suffered by former students of Christian Centre Academy. The file has been handed to Crown prosecutors to consider possible charges, according to emails to students from police obtained by CBC. pic.twitter.com/CkyH0zo6Ar
— Jessie Anton (@jessieanton_) August 2, 2022
The Sask. government says it hasn’t received any complaints about Christian Centre Academy since it began receiving provincial funding in 2012. But former students say that’s not true, and provided CBC with recent email exchanges with Education Minister Dustin Duncan’s office. pic.twitter.com/ejKUSaYOZH
— Jessie Anton (@jessieanton_) August 2, 2022