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	Ex-Officer Expects to Be Arrested The Vancouver Sun January 12, 2008 http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/story.html?id=246e7f0b-514b-4f77-ba58-fae4ab5f7930 DUNCAN -- A former Ontario police officer, whose investigation to expose an alleged high-ranking pedophile ring saw him ostracized from the force, said he expects to be arrested next week for refusing to testify in a government inquiry. Perry Dunlop had already been found in contempt for refusing to answer questions last fall. Inquiry lawyers say Dunlop could be fined or imprisoned. But Dunlop said he has no intention of travelling to Cornwall, Ont., because he has "no faith" in a judicial process that has taken 15 years and cost him his job, home and life in Cornwall. "I predict they will come and get me and take me to jail," he told Canwest News Service in an interview. The 43-year-old, who now runs his own home renovation business on Vancouver Island, admitted the prospect of prison time frightens him. The only person more hated in jail than a pedophile is, ironically, a former cop, he said. "The scary part is behind the closed doors anything can happen . . . in certain cases people are hurt and killed." Cornwall's child abuse scandal first erupted in 1993, when a former altar boy told Dunlop he'd been abused by a local priest. Dunlop said his investigation pointed to a high-level pedophile ring. Facing resistance from his police bosses, Dunlop went to the Children's Aid Society and to the media. For doing so, he faced several charges under the Police Act and fellow officers treated him like a pariah. He, his wife and their three teenage daughters moved to Duncan in 2000. Years later, an Ontario Provincial Police investigation charged 15 people -- among them a priest, lawyer, Crown attorney, probation officer and former justice of the peace -- with sexual crimes against youngsters. But only one person was jailed.
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