Women file lawsuit against former Anglican priest

The Synod of the Diocese of Algoma is targeted in a lawsuit filed by five women who, as children, were molested by Kenneth Gibbs when he was an Anglican priest in Elliot Lake and Chapleau.

The Synod of the Diocese of Algoma is targeted in a lawsuit filed by five women who, as children, were molested by Kenneth Gibbs when he was an Anglican priest in Elliot Lake and Chapleau.

The action, filed earlier this summer, also names Gibbs, the General Synod of the Anglican Church of Canada and the Diocese of Moosonee.

The victims, as well as one other woman, are each seeking $2.5 million.

Gibbs was convicted in November 2009 of eight counts of indecent assault following a trial in Sault Ste. Marie.

At the age of 77, he was sentenced to three and a half years in prison.

Gibbs was at Chapleau's St. John's Anglican Church from 1966 to 1971 and at Elliot Lake's St. Peter the Apostle Church from 1971 to 1980.