Law firm looking for victims of Maple Ridge jail guard

A law firm is looking for possible victims of a former B.C. jail guard who worked in Maple Ridge, Surrey and Burnaby over a period of several decades.

A class-action lawsuit has been certified against a jail guard named Roderic David MacDougall, who has been the subject of dozens of civil lawsuits and criminal investigations over the last several decades.

One of those resulted in sentencing.

The firm of Slater Vecchio is looking for people who were subject to sexual misconduct by MacDougall at any of the following institutions?

• Oakalla Prison/Lower Mainland Regional Correctional Centre (January 1976 – September 1990)
• Fraser Regional Correctional Centre (September 1990 – January 1993)
• Surrey Justice Centre Probation Office (January 1993 – July 1993)
• Alouette River Correctional Centre (July 1993 – June 1997)

A class-action lawsuit related to sexual misconduct allegedly perpetrated by former corrections officer MacDougall at the above correctional facilities in British Columbia has been certified by the Supreme Court of British Columbia.

The lawsuit claims B.C. systemically failed to “investigate, prevent, and report the sexual assaults,” despite hearing rumours and complaints of MacDougall’s alleged activity for years from both inmates and other corrections officers.