Are there any cases where an employer sexually abused a child?

Canada (Federal), Canada

The following excerpt is from Bazley v. Curry, [1999] 2 SCR 534, 1999 CanLII 692 (SCC):

44 The risk of harm may also be enhanced by the nature of the relationship the employment establishes between the employee and the child. Employment that puts the employee in a position of intimacy and power over the child (i.e., a parent-like, role-model relationship) may enhance the risk of the employee feeling that he or she is able to take advantage of the child and the child submitting without effective complaint. The more the employer encourages the employee to stand in a position of respect and suggests that the child should emulate and obey the employee, the more the risk may be enhanced. In other words, the more an enterprise requires the exercise of power or authority for its successful operation, the more materially likely it is that an abuse of that power relationship can be fairly ascribed to the employer. See Boothman v. Canada, supra.

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