A charitable organization founded by the late Jean Vanier has issued a report saying the Canadian sexually abused at least 25 women during his decades with the group.
L'Arche International commissioned the report, which identified 25 women who experienced a sexual act or an intimate gesture involving Vanier between 1952 and 2019.
Vanier, son of former governor general Georges Vanier, worked as a Canadian navy officer and professor in Toronto before founding L'Arche. The non-profit group provides alternative living environments where people with developmental disabilities can be full-fledged participants in the community. The new report says the relationships between Vanier, who died in 2019, and the women were "part of a continuum of confusion, control and abuse."
"It was within the community of Trosly that the majority of the cases of control and sexual abuse investigated by the commission took place," the report reads. "People accused of sexual abuse have been members and have held positions of responsibility there, victims still live nearby."There was no evidence that intellectually disabled people had been abused.
There are 160 L'Arche communities in 38 countries, including 28 communities and two projects in Canada.The team that conducted the research included a pair of historians, a sociologist, a psychiatrist, a psychoanalyst and a theologian, and they conducted 119 interviews with 89 people, on top of studying numerous archival documents from L'Arche and religious orders.
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