Class Action Lawsuit against The Quebec Youth Protection System

Old Le Village detention center in St-Jerome, Quebec PART 2

Children's prison. Centre de Jeunesse de Laurentide, St Jerome, Que Le Village DPJ, Quebec youth This is a children's prison, one of many located in the province of Quebec Canada. The children are or were when I was there as a kid between the ages of 12-...

Le Village in St Jerome girls detention center PART 1

Centre de juenness de Laurentides/ Old Le Village Detention Center This Youth Prison was built on September 8 1976. It was called Le Village in had one maximum security girls unit ages 13-17. A couple of french boy units as ...

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PART 2 Cite de Prairie children's prison

PARTIE 2 Children Prison Cite De Prairies/ Prison pour enfants. Part 2 La version française suivra The truth is 99% of the youth in these children's maximum security prisons in Quebec is that have not committed a crime. The reas...

Cite de Prairie children's prison in Quebec PART 1, this is the same center where several staff members were fired for having s*x with some of the kids last year. One of the staff members gave birth to one of the teens children..

PART 1 Children's prison called Cité-des-Prairies (CDP)/prison pour enfants Cité-des-Prairies (CDP) FRENCH WILL FOLLOW /I got caught filming the property by one of the guards working here! les jeunes en difficulté d'adaptation de la Cité-des-Prairies (CDP)....

You can find court procedures regarding our class action lawsuit against the DPJ on the website Canlii simply enter the case number 500-06-001022-199. It is lots of reading but it is important information regarding the case progress. https://www.canlii.org/?lang=en&fbclid=IwY2xjawJOLi5leHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHR37QI-_4cVpiuQ81eVjh2r6VoTk-8gvJs6_ExqhmuPz9pm7HMa7RFZWPA_aem_2L-riXkjrFmAi5GJ2YSd3g /id=%20500-06-001022-199&searchId=2025-03-24T08%3A14%3A26%3A830%2F61c6c931bfee42cdbc510d74d056fd02

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There are currently 3 class actions against the Quebec youth system. As you know, on September 7, 2022, the Superior Court of Quebec authorized the class action for members who were placed in a reception centre for their protection and have been victims of deprivation of liberty (isolation/confinement), s*xual and/or physical abuse and/or use of medication in one or more youth reception centres in Quebec since October 1,1950 until today (the “Lindsay Action” or the court file baring number 500-06-001022-199).

Since young offenders and members of First Nations, Inuit or Metis were excluded of the Lindsay Action pursuant to the authorization judgment, two new applications for authorization were filed on behalf of these two groups.

As a result, there are now three different class actions concerning abuse suffered in youth reception centres, and these actions are at different stages of progression.

The three class actions are detailed below.

Please note that one person may be a member of more than one class action, such as if that person was placed in reception centres on several occasions but for different reasons.

While it may be useful to know which class action(s) you may be a member of, it is not mandatory at this stage of the cases.
The “LINDSAY ACTION”

bearing court file number 500-06-001022-199 is for abuse suffered while in a Quebec youth center for youth protection. The 2nd lawsuit is “A.D. ACTION”

bearing court file number

500-06-001269-238 which is for the same purpose but for youth offenders and the 3rd lawsuit is “DANDY ACTION”

bearing court file number

500-06-001265-236, which is for First Nation, Inuit or Metis,

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My daughter came with me recently to video some of the French detention centers, she asked me if it was hard for me being around all the locked up system kids while I film the various detention centers. I told her that it was at first. I often hear a kid yell out to me outside their cell windows, and my heart goes out to them.
As hard as it is for those kids to be locked up as kids, it's harder to bring those issues with us into adulthood. Kids are resilient, tough, adaptable, they will get through it, like we did. While I go visit these old detention centers, I love those kids locked up inside the walls, there is a bond between me and them, like a system family.
But, they are not the reason, I sometime isolate myself in a world of insanity chasing old system kid ghosts who haunt me, and who are not easy to find. They are in the adult prison systems, the hospitals, on the streets barely hanging on, or suffering in isolation with nothing but their addiction to keep them going. I know for a fact, that some are reading this, while thinking about ending their misery once and for all. There are only a handful of us in the class action lawsuit, we are rare and lucky to be here today.
I told her that the reason I have spent hundreds, if not thousands of hours over the passed 5 years finding old system kids, doing all these lawsuit groups (I have them in both French and English), relentlessly after the i don't give a s**t lawyers for answers that I don't always get, messaging tons of old system kids, is for the adults the kids became. That is where my heart lives. That is why I am relentless about this class action and getting a moment of financial freedom, if only for a short time for us.
I understand that not everyone feels the same way that I do, but I speak with the system kids personally, I have spoke to the majority of you on this group and lots who wrote to me briefly about their story, then disappeared again. It's been a hard life as an adult, I am always talking to the bad ass, long-term old system kids, like me. The old little Mount St Patrick's, Chemin Deacon, Outremont, Quebec kids, The Bailey House girls, Le Village girls, Dara for boys unit, Shawbridge boys, chapel in Shawbridge boys, Cite de Prairies youth Detention, Cartier kids, my heart belongs to those kids, who are now adult and the rest of the maximum security places for kids.
It's the adult old system kids that drive me, I spent over 25 years in adult prisons all across the Country and once in the States, In both federal and provincial prisons. I was on parole or probation for over 32 years. I passed my life, hurting the ones who loved me, by possessively giving into my endless addictions. I could go on. The adult old system kids who had it rough, like me, is where my heart is.
They haunt me, like that beautiful 7 year old Granby , Quebec girl that died in 2019 does. She is the reason we are in this lawsuit today, she was rescued from her closet, badly beaten, rushed to Emergency but died from the abuse shortly after arriving..
In her death, a class action was born, she lives inside of me, just like all you old system kids, who struggled through your adult lives.
I'm asking you to please hold on a bit longer, you've come this far.

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Youville class action just won..

Action collective contre Les Sœurs de la Charité de Québec et le CIUSSS de la Capitale-Nationale #2 - Kugler Kandestin 65 millions $ pour le règlement d'une action collective contre les abus

Oh God!

Montreal's Grey Nuns Hit with Class Action Lawsuit Alleging Orphanage Abuse The Montreal’s Grey Nuns orphanage abuse class action was authorized by the Superior Court of Québec, allowing victims to finally have their day in court.

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This is the children's prison in Chambly, Quebec.CENTRE JEUNESSE DE LA MONTÉRÉGIE./Il s'agit de la prison pour enfants de Chambly, Québec.CENTRE JEUNESSE DE LA MONTÉRÉGIE.

Centre jeunesse de la Montérégie, Chambly & Rivière l'Acadie Il s'agit de la prison pour enfants de Chambly, Québec.CENTRE JEUNESSE DE LA MONTÉRÉGIE.This is the children's prison in Chambly, Quebec.CENTRE JEUNESSE DE L...

Incredible Montreal Gazette posted that a female staff at Cite de Prairies gave birth to one of the kids kid..
I keep trying to get around reposted Canadian news which is no longer allowed on FB.. But i'll just copy and paste..
An investigation is underway at an east-end detention centre for underage criminal offenders where at least nine instructors were allegedly involved in s*xual misconduct with inmates, including at least one instance of full s*xual in*******se.
Two managers have been suspended and the instructors involved have either been suspended or fired amid the continuing investigation into the incidents at Cité-des-Prairies centre in Rivière-des-Prairies, according to the health authority that oversees it.
who reported that over the past two years, at least nine instructors had s*xual relations with at least five inmates and at least one of the instructors birthed a child fathered by an underage inmate.
The CIUSSS du Centre-Sud-de-l’Île-de-Montréal wouldn’t confirm those details pending the results of the investigation, beyond noting it was made aware of nine educators potentially implicated in misconduct, including at least one reported situation of in*******se and instances of s*xual exchanges on social media.
The health authority declined an interview request with its director of youth protection on Friday, but said in an email it launched an independent investigation by an external firm once it was made aware of allegations of s*xual misconduct involving one inmate.
“This report made us discover other elements that prompted our organization to launch the investigation,” the health authority said. “This type of situation is unacceptable and we take these allegations very seriously. … Our priority is to guarantee the safety and well-being of young people.”

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https://www.sherwoodparknews.com/news/local-news/s*xual-misconduct-scandal-rocks-montreal-youth-detention-centre-reports

Investigations launched into reported s*xual misconduct at Montreal youth detention centre One of the instructors became pregnant and delivered a child fathered by an underage inmate, according to media reports.