According to "Sins of the Fathers," a report on the schools published by The Anglican Journal, the church's monthly newspaper, last May, eight Indian men committed suicide after they were subpoenaed to testify about their sexual abuse at the boarding school in the Cariboo diocese. They thought, `Everybody's going to know that I let this guy do it to me for candy.' "nytimes nov 2Rejecting charges of "cultural genocideArguing that the most effective therapy is counseling, apologies and moderate settlements, church leaders say that additional steps like teaching lost languages could be paid out of a $240 million "healing fund" the federal government set up in 1998. But with no solution near, church leaders nervously await a court test here in December of a new legal concept: "cultural abuse," or loss of language, oral traditions and spiritual beliefs
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