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Originally Posted by burn_this_city
Is it too late to round up the people involved with this? We're still tracking down camp guards from WW2 into their 90s. I guarantee some of these people are still out there and they belong behind bars.
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There's been some prosecution and civil suits, especially for sexual abuse. The residential school system wasn't closed until 1996. So this if far from ancient history.
It's really difficult to prove individual cases of assault, especially as many of the victims are reluctant to go forward. There have been some convictions, but it's kind of slap in the face how lenient the sentences are, as the really bad stuff is so hard to prove in court:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._An...dential_School