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	Let's Get to the Truth The Daily Observer March 3, 2009 http://www.thedailyobserver.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1459414 Three years and $40 million later, the painful Project Truth inquiry in Cornwall wrapped up Friday with submissions from victims' groups designed to bring an end to victimization, especially of young males. The inquiry heard from counselling and advocacy groups that it should recommend the province create victim treatment centres for male survivors of sexual abuse, as well as establish a sex abuse ombudsman. The inquiry was established to examine institutional responses to allegations of child sexual abuse in eastern Ontario following a complaint in 1992 that a former altar boy had been sexually abused by a priest and a probation officer. As more complainants came forward and a high percentage were men, it became obvious boys, as well as girls, are victims of sexual abuse. The inquiry will make recommendations, based on what it heard during three years and the submissions of groups like those heard Friday, to the province. It will be up to the provincial government to decide what steps to move forward on. For the sake of all those who suffered and came forward to tell their story, let's hope the search for the truth was not in vain.
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