CANADA
Renew America
Matt C. Abbott
March 20, 2006
In Cornwall, Ont....
PUBLIC INQUIRY OPENS
ON 'PEDOPHILE CLAN' CLAIMS
by Paul Likoudis
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.