Mount Cashel teacher convicted of abuse in N.L. now subject of police investigation in B.C.

Edward English — a Christian Brothers teacher who was sentenced to 10 years in prison for beating and sexually assaulting boys at the Mount Cashel orphanage in St. John’s — is the subject of a new police investigation in British Columbia.

Burnaby RCMP have confirmed a complaint was lodged on Aug. 25, and relates to allegations of abuse at a Catholic private school between 1978 and 1982.

While the force would not identify the subject of the investigation, a source with knowledge of the complaint confirmed English, now 74, is the teacher in question.

“I have no idea what you are talking about,” English said when contacted by a