Cornwall Public Inquiry Report urges Local School Boards to Apologize
Written by John Borst on December 16, 2009 – 4:14 amDecember 16, 2009 (Catholic education, Catholic schools)
The Ontario government today released the 1,637-page Cornwall Public Inquiry Report. According to a CBC story titled Abused children revictimized by public institutions: Cornwall report Commissioner Normand Glaude found “there were systematic failures in the response of institutions to allegation of sexual abuse of children and young people in this community.”
The CBC story also reports that Glaude recommends that
“The Catholic diocese, Ministry of Community Safety and Correctional Services and the local school board should consider making a public apology to all confirmed victims of sexual assault or abuse by their employees; they should also make a public appeal, urging victims to come forward.”
It also reports that “the Roman Catholic Church responded with an apology, delivered by Paul André Durocher, the bishop with the diocese of Alexandria Cornwall.”
The institutions Glaude examined in his report include the:
- Ontario Ministry of Community Safety and Correctional Services.
- Cornwall Community Police Service.
- Ontario Provincial Police.
- Diocese of Alexandria-Cornwall.
- Children’s Aid Society.
- Upper Canada District School Board and the Catholic District School Board of Eastern Ontario.
- Ontario Ministry of the Attorney General.
The following section is from Volume One regarding the two school boards:
10. Institutional Response of School Boards (201Kb / 42 pages)
An executive summary of Phase One of the Institutional Response of School Boards is available on pages 269 to 280 of Volume 4:
1. Phase 1: Facts & Findings (1,546Kb / 341 pages)
The four volumes of the report can be located at these links:
Volume 1 (Full version) (7,503Kb / 1,675 pages)
Volume 2 (Full version) (1,069Kb / 212 pages)
Volume 3 (Full version) (838Kb / 153 pages)
Volume 4 (Full version) (1,794Kb / 405 pages)
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