Regina youth home abuse claim settlements top $2.7 million

The Saskatchewan government has continued to quietly settle dozens of decades-old physical and sexual abuse claims brought forward in a 10-year-old class action lawsuit centred on a youth jail in Regina.
Public records show government ministries paid $357,500 to Merchant Law Group LLP during the last fiscal year, adding to the $147,500 it paid out the year before. According to the government, the total now stands at $2.79 million. 
That money was then redirected to the victims, who were tee