The New Brunswick Training School was a youth detention centre in

Kingsclear, New Brunswick Kingsclear is an unincorporated rural area 20 km west of Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada. The area includes forests, Saint John River shoreline, agricultural land, small businesses, rural residences, and the Mactaquac Dam. Access is via the ...

, Canada, about west of

Fredericton Fredericton (; ) is the capital city of the Canadian province of New Brunswick. The city is situated in the west-central portion of the province along the Saint John River, which flows west to east as it bisects the city. The river is the do ...

. Opened in the 1940s, it was the provincial male youth detention centre. It closed in 1998 following an inquiry into abuse there. It was a wing of the Kingsclear Reformatory, a minimum security facility located nearby, which closed in 2000.

Karl Toft Karl Richard Toft (June 30, 1936 – April 28, 2018) was a Canadian convicted sex predator and pederasty, pederast who committed an estimated 200 sexual assaults while working as a guard at the New Brunswick Training School in Kingsclear, New Br ...

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.

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