A victim’s group of former wards from St. Joseph’s and St. John’s boys training schools presented the attorney general’s ministry with 14 pages of documents alleged to have come from the files of former wards. The pages were found in curbside trash outside the Toronto offices of the Christian Brothers of Ontario, a Catholic lay order which still runs St. John’s in Uxbridge, the group says.

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"The ministry has passed the matter over to Metro Police," said a spokesman for the attorney general.

The Christian Brothers are embroiled in a physical and sexual abuse scandal involving more than 1,000 former wards from St. John’s and St. Joseph’s, which was also run by the order before it closed in 1973. The victims group said the breach of a court order designed to protect the St. John’s ward files could jeopardize upcoming court cases involving members of the order who face abuse charges.

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