Assaulted at age 10, ‘woodland rapist’ victim sues suspect, 30 years later [Video]

WARNING: This article contains graphic content and may affect those who have experienced​ ​​​sexual violence or know someone affected by it.

An alleged child sex predator arrested earlier this year — in a case that confounded police in southern Ontario for decades — is now facing a civil lawsuit over an assault reported 30 years ago.

Court documents reviewed by CBC News show Richard Neil is being sued for $1 million in damages by one of his alleged victims. The plaintiff was 10 years old when he told police he was forced to perform sex acts on a stranger in the Norton Place Park in Brampton, Ont., on Sept. 29, 1994. 

Neil, 65, was arrested in Toronto in March in connection with that attack and two other sexual assaults on a boy in Kitchener and a girl in Oakville in the 1990s, after a long-running, on-again, off-again investigation. 

In 1995, …