L'Arche Group Shocked by Report That Founder Sexually Abused Women

L'Arche Group Shocked by Report That Founder Sexually Abused Women
Founder of the Communaute de l'Arche (Arch community) Jean Vanier at home on Sept. 23, 2014 in Trosly-Breuil, France. Tiziana Fabi/AFP via Getty Images
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A report by a French−based charity that helps people who are developmentally disabled has concluded its late Canadian founder had “manipulative sexual relationships” with women over several decades, shocking members of the group that continue his work today.

L’Arche International says in a report summary that Jean Vanier, who died last year at the age of 90, had relationships with at least six women between 1970 and 1995, some of whom said Vanier “used his power over them to take advantage of them through different kinds of sexual behaviours.”