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	Four-year, $53M Inquiry on Sex Abuse Allegations Delivers Report Tuesday The Canadian Press December 15, 2009 http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5jRSuKRblMUWzxI8LzlxELPuLr__w CORNWALL, Ont. — After four years and $53 million, the Cornwall inquiry in eastern Ontario is set to deliver its final report Tuesday. The inquiry was struck to examine institutional responses to historical allegations of sex abuse, but also looked at murky rumours of a clandestine pedophile ring. A provincial police investigation that concluded in 2001 laid 114 charges against 15 people, but found no evidence of such a ring. At closing submissions in February the pedophile clan theory was cast as a fabrication spread by a misguided police officer and embraced by a panic-stricken community. While not officially in the inquiry's mandate, the commissioner was urged in closing submissions to once and for all debunk the sensational pedophile ring tale. Several groups are also hoping the commissioner will recommend permanent funding for counselling for male victims of sexual abuse.
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