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Ex-Olympics Boss Feels Vindicated After 'Nightmare' Of False Abuse Allegations

Darpan News Desk The Canadian Press, 31 Mar, 2015 01:08 PM

VANCOUVER — Former Olympics CEO John Furlong says he feels vindicated that he's been cleared of sexual assault allegations after suffering an unimaginable nightmare for nearly two years.

Speaking a day after a B.C. Supreme Court judge dismissed a third and final sexual assault lawsuit against him, Furlong says he felt paralyzing pain but is now ready to move on with his life.

A man who failed to show up for the start of a trial on Monday claimed Furlong sexually abused him 45 years ago at a Roman Catholic school in northern B.C.

Since December, suits against Furlong by two women have been withdrawn or dismissed that made similar allegations, which he says have caused him incalculable financial loss.

Furlong says he has fought against being angry with the three plaintiffs and hopes they find inner peace, though noting they will have to live with what they have done.

Furlong on Tuesday also dropped a defamation lawsuit against a reporter whose story in a Vancouver weekly newspaper in 2012 sparked the three cases against him, but he says he will still defend himself against a counter defamation filed by Laura Robinson.

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