Canadian Cardinal Marc Ouellet on Tuesday said he was suing a woman who accused him of sexual assault more than a decade ago when he was the archbishop of Quebec.
Ouellet, now a prominent Vatican official, was named in August in a class action lawsuit against the Quebec Catholic archdiocese that alleged cases of sexual assault by some 88 clergy and staff working there starting in 1940.In the filing in the Quebec Superior Court in August, an anonymous complainant alleged that Ouellet had inappropriately touched her and had made comments that made her feel uncomfortable between 2008 and 2010, when she was an intern in her 20s in the archdiocese.
A copy of the lawsuit, seen by Reuters, says the cardinal is seeking $100,000 in damages from a woman identified only as "Ms. F" and that he would donate any amount won to "the fight against the sexual abuse of the Indigenous Peoples of Canada." The Vatican said in August that following a preliminary internal review of the accusations, Pope Francis had decided there was insufficient evidence to open a Church investigation into the allegations.
"I have never been guilty of these reprehensible behaviors, much less of those alleged against other members of the clergy cited in the class action," Ouellet said in Tuesday's statement. "This inappropriate association, intentionally constructed and widely spread for improper purposes, must be denounced."
Ouellet said he was taking legal action for defamation before the courts of Quebec "in order to prove the falsity of the allegations made against me and to restore my reputation and honor."
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