Prosecutor remained on case despite conflict

CORNWALL PUBLIC INQUIRY Cornwall Standard Freeholder 13 January 2009 Posted By TREVOR PRITCHARD, STANDARD-FREEHOLDER Time constraints kept a former senior Crown attorney from asking the lawyer prosecuting sex abuse allegations against a local priest to immediately step down over a … Continue reading

Griffiths: Peter Griffiths

Peter Griffiths Peter D. Griffiths, the Associate Chief Justice of Ontario, was a Crown Ontario when the Cornwall sex abuse scandal and cover-up broke out. According to the Attorney General’s website Justice Peter D. Griffiths received his degree in law … Continue reading

The Saga

Chronology of John MacDonald’s ongoing and relentless quest for justice  John MacDonald, an “alleged” victim of clerical sexual abuse, has spent a year waiting for the Cornwall Police Service to investigate his allegations of obstruction of justice leveled at Cornwall … Continue reading

Ontario Attorney General

COMING SOON (see also AG page) Brian Lennox (Judge who gave Malcolm MacDonald an absolute discharge after the former Crown pled guilty to obstructing justice in the illegal  $32,000 pay-off of David Silmser  Terence Platana Murray Segal:  (Deputy Attorney General) … Continue reading

Institutions

 UNDER CONSTRUCTION.  All links to pages with transcripts and/or further information will eventually be restored. Institutions A number of “institutions” implicated in the Cornwall sex abuse scandal were granted standing at the Cornwall Public. Commencing 28 November 2007, the final … Continue reading

Anatomy of a Cover-up

Anatomy of a Cover-up (26 January 1994 – 09 January 1995 ) This is the root of the allegations of sexual abuse, a paedophile ring and a cover-up in Cornwall, Ontario which prompted demands for a public inquiry.  The Cornwall Public Inquiry … Continue reading