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Top court supports woman named 'abuser'.(NEWSWATCH)(Wanda Young wrongly suspected as child abuser)(Brief article)
Canada's Supreme Court recently ordered Newfoundland's Memorial University to pay more than $800,000 to a woman whom the school wrongly identified as a suspected child abuser. Most is in punitive damages unrelated to her loss of income.
Wanda Young's woes began 12 years ago when a paper she wrote was interpreted by her professor as a confession of child abuse. The professor notified authorities and Young's name was put on a child-abuse registry without her knowledge. Young later applied to the school's social work program, but was denied entry and eventually dropped out of college.
The part of the paper in question turned out to be an account quoted and cited from a textbook, but the university argued that it had acted in good faith and ...
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