The New Brunswick Training School was a youth detention centre in Kingsclear, New Brunswick, Canada, about west of Fredericton.

Opened in the 1940s, it was the provincial male youth detention centre. It closed in 1998 following an inquiry into abuse there.

New Brunswick Training School

It was a wing of the Kingsclear Reformatory, a minimum security facility located nearby, which closed in 2000.

New Brunswick Training School

Karl Toft was one of the guards at Kingsclear and was convicted of committing 34 sex crimes against inmates between the mid 1960s and the mid 1980s. He has admitted to raping over 200 boys in a 35—year period. Other guards have been alleged to have also raped boys at Kingsclear.

New Brunswick Training School

References

External links

1940s establishments in New Brunswick

1990s disestablishments in New Brunswick

Buildings and structures in York County, New Brunswick

Child sexual abuse in Canada

Defunct prisons in Canada

New Brunswick political scandals

Prisons in New Brunswick

Youth detention centres in Canada

Violence against men in North America