Woman Withdraws Lawsuit against Former Vanoc CEO Furlong

This article was last updated on April 16, 2022

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One of the women who launched a formal campaign against accused former Vanoc CEO, John Furlong, for sexual abuse has announced to withdraw her lawsuit. Beverly Abraham’s request for dismissal was granted by B.C. Supreme Court on Friday.

According to Abraham, her brother died almost four months ago and then shortly afterwards her cousin and her 16-year-old nephew passed away as well. She added that her 91-year-old mother broke her leg almost a month ago and all these incidents have led her to believe that she cannot deal with the stress of the lawsuit. After discussing with her husband and hereditary chief, she said “it was time to let it go.” Abraham insistently vowed to stand by her allegations but said to be too tired and stressed out to continue. Addressing the media from outside her home in Burns Lake on Tuesday, she said “a lot of weight came off my shoulders. I felt a hundred times lighter instead of dragging all these problems around.” She added that “I just want to give it up to God. I told the truth. That’s all that matters. It hurts me deeply inside that all the people that supported me saying ‘way to go Bev.’ It seems to me I let them down but I had to take care of myself too.”

On the other hand, Furlong insists that he is innocent and that the allegations against him are false. These allegations were born after an article published two years ago in the Georgia Straight alleged that he physically and verbally abused First Nations students at Burns Lake while teaching at a Catholic school there in the late 1960s.

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