WINDSOR, ONT. The Windsor-Essex County Health Unit is reporting a COVID-19 outbreak within a cohort at Immaculate Conception Catholic School. The health unit says there are at least two confirmed cases of COVID-19 in a single classroom. “As per provincial direction, a school outbreak is declared if there are two or more cases in a school and if there is evidence that at least one case could have been infected in the school,” a statement from medical officer of health Dr. Wajid Ahmed said. The entire class has already been dismissed since Dec. 18 when all Windsor-Essex schools were ordered to close. Students within the Immaculate Conception cohort have been asked to isolate for a period of 14 days and get tested for COVID-19.
Corrections & Clarifications: The name of the group Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests was incorrect in an earlier version of the article.
A civil lawsuit against the Roman Catholic Diocese of Phoenix highlights the history of Arizona priests fleeing the country after allegations of child sex abuse.
In the early 2000s, the Rev. Jorge Washington Cordova Hernandez faced several allegations of child abuse in Yuma and Maricopa counties. However, the priest fled to Ecuador before being arrested.
Two years after his death, a woman filed a civil lawsuit against the diocese claiming the church failed to protect her and others when knowing about the abuse.