3rd lawsuit filed over alleged sexual abuse by Hidden Valley educational assistant in Whitehorse
A third lawsuit has been filed over alleged sexual abuse at the hands of an educational assistant at Hidden Valley Elementary School in Whitehorse.
A student and their parents filed a statement of claim to the Yukon Supreme Court last month. The document only recently became publicly available after a judge approved an order to anonymize the plaintiffs’ names.
The lawsuit targets former educational assistant William Auclair-Bellemare, the Yukon government Education Department and the Yukon RCMP via the Attorney General of Canada.
No statements of defense had been filed as of Sept. 7.
Like the preceding lawsuits, the statement of