Tuesday, March 21, 2006
PEDOPHILE CLAN
Matt C. Abbott has obtained permission to reprint Paul Likoudis' article in "The Wanderer":
CORNWALL, Ont. - Fifteen years after allegations that a "pedophile clan" consisting of prominent local officials in government, the Church, police, child welfare and probation departments abused dozens of young boys in the St. Lawrence River community of Cornwall on the eastern edge of Ontario, an official public inquiry led by Justice Normand Gloade opened here last week under a national spotlight.
This public inquiry is not to "determine who did what to whom," in the words of Justice Gloade - though that may come out in the course of the ten-month inquiry (broadcast daily on the Internet at www.cornwallinquiry.ca), but to determine "how public institutions in Cornwall responded in the past to any allegations of sexual abuse that were brought to their attention - not just in the Church but in all institutions," and to help those individuals who were abused, and who may be abused in the future, to cope with their trauma.
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