WHEN A TEACHER MAKES A REPORT TO THE CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY'S UNREGISTERED WORKERS WHO ENSURES THE TEACHER IS REALLY TRUSTWORTHY?
Sydney L. Robins, a retired Judge over a decade ago took aim with “Protecting Our Students,” a provincial review that was supposed to be a road map to help the education system identify and prevent sexual assault by teachers.
THE CHILD ABUSERS THAT WORK CLOSELY WITH THE CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY...
Teacher sexual misconduct in Ontario was examined by using cases reviewed by the Ontario College of Teachers between 2000 and 2013. Despite the impetus by key stakeholders to develop appropriate policies to circumvent teacher-student sexual relationships, this phenomenon is still not well understood. The current study found that around 92 percent of perpetrators are men. The results indicate that male perpetrators who abuse elementary school-aged males are more likely to have multiple victims and longer offending careers. This study found less intrusive sexual behaviour, fewer multiple victim perpetrators, and shorter offending careers in more recent cases. This suggests that the government-commissioned report published in 2000 may have raised awareness and shaped this issue in a positive way. Practitioners, policy-makers, and the public are provided with a comprehensive picture of the perpetrators, victims, and the nature of abuse to engage in meaningful discourse and implement program and policy.
https://www.cais.ca/uploaded/Research/Current_Resources/Sexual-Misconduct/Ontario-College-of-Teachers-Cases-of-Teacher-Sexual-Misconduct.pdf
https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2017/12/01/the-star-has-been-investigating-abuse-in-schools-since-2001.html
Teacher sexual misconduct in Ontario was examined by using cases reviewed by the Ontario College of Teachers between 2000 and 2013. Despite the impetus by key stakeholders to develop appropriate policies to circumvent teacher-student sexual relationships, this phenomenon is still not well understood. The current study found that around 92 percent of perpetrators are men. The results indicate that male perpetrators who abuse elementary school-aged males are more likely to have multiple victims and longer offending careers. This study found less intrusive sexual behaviour, fewer multiple victim perpetrators, and shorter offending careers in more recent cases. This suggests that the government-commissioned report published in 2000 may have raised awareness and shaped this issue in a positive way. Practitioners, policy-makers, and the public are provided with a comprehensive picture of the perpetrators, victims, and the nature of abuse to engage in meaningful discourse and implement program and policy.
https://www.cais.ca/uploaded/Research/Current_Resources/Sexual-Misconduct/Ontario-College-of-Teachers-Cases-of-Teacher-Sexual-Misconduct.pdf
https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2017/12/01/the-star-has-been-investigating-abuse-in-schools-since-2001.html
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/why-bad-teachers-dont-get-fired-in-ontario/article4249405/
https://www.thestar.com/news/crime/2012/09/21/teacher_sex_trial_acquitted_woman_wants_to_rebuild_her_life.html
https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2007/11/22/teacher_molested_me_girl_says.html
https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2018/03/30/toronto-high-school-failed-to-take-action-on-teachers-sexualized-behaviour-for-years-parents-say.html
https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2018/03/30/toronto-high-school-failed-to-take-action-on-teachers-sexualized-behaviour-for-years-parents-say.html
https://www.mississauga.com/news-story/7975199--one-wrong-just-creates-another-wrong-how-the-quiet-transfer-of-teachers-over-disciplinary-issues-has-led-to-patterns-of-abuse-in-schools/
https://www.macleans.ca/news/canada/why-are-schools-brainwashing-our-children/
https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2011/09/29/bad_teachers_ontarios_secret_list.html
https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2011/09/29/bad_teachers_ontarios_secret_list.html
https://www.thespec.com/news-story/2221198-soft-porn-writing-teacher-resigns-from-watchdog/
https://torontosun.com/opinion/columnists/jerry-agar-are-lunatics-in-charge-of-our-schools
https://torontosun.com/news/provincial/ontario-teachers-to-lose-licence-if-found-guilty-of-sexual-touching
https://www.pressreader.com/canada/toronto-star/20170520/281672549880244
https://www.cp24.com/news/man-convicted-of-sexually-assaulting-student-continues-to-tutor-minors-1.2438074
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ontario-teachers-discipline-chief-quits-over-racy-novel-1.1113137
SO MUCH FOR THE BEST INTEREST OF THE CHILD..
“Reasonable grounds for suspicion” refers to the information that an average person, using normal and honest judgment would need to be suspicious.
http://www.oacas.org/childrens-aid-child-protection/duty-to-report/
http://www.oacas.org/childrens-aid-child-protection/duty-to-report/
“The students had a reasonable expectation that they were in circumstances where their privacy interests related to their sexual integrity would be protected,” the government says in its written filing. “Here the impact of the recording on the students’ dignity and sexual integrity was significant.”
Jarvis, however, maintains the students were in classrooms or other common areas where anyone could observe them. Concluding they had a reasonable privacy expectation, he says, could see the criminalization of a wide range of conduct, such as staring at someone from behind tinted sunglasses.
NOT EXACTLY PUTTING THE BEST INTEREST OF THE CHILDREN FIRST IS HE...
IS THIS REALLY JUST A SIMPLE CASE OF VOYEURISM?
https://nationalpost.com/pmn/news-pmn/canada-news-pmn/acquittal-of-teacher-who-secretly-videoed-teens-dangerous-top-court-told
Sexually touching a student will now cost Ontario teachers their jobs
Bad teachers: Ontario's secret list.
By KEVIN DONOVAN Staff Reporter. Thu., Sept. 29, 2011.
A Star investigation finds the Ontario College of Teachers, the teachers' watchdog, shields bad teachers from public scrutiny. They might as well be the unregistered child protection social workers they work so closely with.
Here are some of the people licensed in Ontario to teach your children and report child abuse. Would you trust any of them to work with the CAS?
A teacher who disciplined students by warning they would “spend time with a pedophile” and if the behavior got worse it “would be without vaseline.”
A high school teacher whose female students said he called them “sluts,” “pole dancers,” “whore” and commented that tongue studs were for “oral sex.”
A teacher who shut Grade 8 students in a storage cupboard to discipline them.
A teacher who repeatedly took photos of Grade 8 girls with his cellphone.
A drunk teacher who sexually assaulted a store clerk.
A teacher who stole money students deposited with her for school trips to Europe.
A teacher who scared female Grade 6 students by drawing pictures depicting one girl’s death and tacking them to her dormitory window during a three-day outdoor education trip.
A principal and vice-principal who did not report a child’s allegations of sexual abuse, as required by law.
A gym teacher who frequently came late to school, smelled of booze and fell asleep in class.
The identity of scores of bad teachers and dozens more each year is kept secret by the profession’s watchdog — the Ontario College of Teachers.
That’s because the watchdog — a self-regulatory body — granted them anonymity after the teacher pleaded guilty or “no contest” to certain allegations. Typically, the teachers received a reprimand or short suspension.
In its investigation, the Star also found teachers who help students cheat on provincial EQAO tests; a teacher who ridiculed students’ religious beliefs; a teacher who repeatedly hit or manhandled students; a teacher who flirted with a Grade 7 girl, sending her what a judge ruled (though the teacher was acquitted of sexual assault and exploitation charges) were “sexually charged” text messages including “lots of love” and “can’t stop thinking about you, I didn’t want you to leave today.”
In some cases, a summary is published on the watchdog’s website and in its quarterly newsletter, without the teacher’s name or school. Some of the cases — particularly those dealing with incompetence — are never published at all.
THE SEXTEENS.
FULL OF GRADE 9 ORGASMS, ASS GRABBING AND DRUGS..
The co-author is teacher Jacques Tremblay, one of the most important education officials in Ontario. 2011.
LETS START HERE AND GO BACK A LITTLE..
2018: Teachers who commit certain forms of sexual abuse allowed to keep their licences By VICTORIA GIBSON Staff Reporter VJOSA ISAI Staff Reporter
Sun., Jan. 21, 2018.
https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2018/01/21/teachers-who-commit-certain-forms-of-sexual-abuse-allowed-to-keep-their-licenses.html
Pretrial scheduled for former Smiths Falls District Collegiate Institute teacher facing sex-related charges. NEWS Jan 29, 2018.
https://www.insideottawavalley.com/news-story/8077974-trial-date-expected-for-former-sfdci-teacher-facing-sex-related-charges/
https://www.insideottawavalley.com/news-story/8097461-pretrial-scheduled-for-former-smiths-falls-district-collegiate-institute-teacher-facing-sex-related-charges/
https://www.insideottawavalley.com/news-story/7472166-trial-date-set-for-cathcart-case/
Toronto police charge private school teacher with sexual assault of student
By BRYANN AGUILAR Staff Reporter Thu., May 17, 2018
https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2018/05/17/toronto-police-charge-private-school-teacher-with-sexual-assault-of-student.html
Popular English teacher who lured, sexually exploited students gets 33 months in prison.
https://torontosun.com/news/crime/popular-english-teachers-who-lures-sexually-exploits-students-gets-33-months-in-prison
Why bad teachers don’t get fired in Ontario.
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/why-bad-teachers-dont-get-fired-in-ontario/article4249405/
Sexually touching a student will now cost Ontario teachers their jobs
https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2018/05/08/sexually-touching-a-student-will-now-cost-ontario-teachers-their-jobs.html
https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2018/05/25/toronto-teacher-arrested-after-allegedly-assaulting-eight-girls-on-school-property.html
Toronto teacher arrested after allegedly assaulting eight girls on school property
By INORI ROY Staff ReporterFri., May 25, 2018.
https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2018/05/25/toronto-teacher-arrested-after-allegedly-assaulting-eight-girls-on-school-property.html
Toronto high school teacher charged with sexual assault of student.
https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2018/04/12/toronto-high-school-teacher-accused-of-sexual-assault-involving-student.html
First of its kind report outlines sexual abuse against nearly 1,300 students in Canadian schools over past two decades.
https://www.thestar.com/news/investigations/2018/06/13/first-of-its-kind-report-outlines-sexual-abuse-against-nearly-1300-students-in-canadian-schools-over-past-two-decades.html
2017: A Star investigation published today probed a bureaucratic blind spot that allows teachers in Ontario to transfer schools after abusing students.
Since the turn of the century, the Star has done two major investigations into abuse against students in Ontario classrooms. In 2001, the Star’s Kerry Gillespie penned a three-part series examining teacher abuse after the Robins Report was released.
https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2017/12/01/the-star-has-been-investigating-abuse-in-schools-since-2001.html
Toronto teacher pleads guilty to sex offences involving minors
By ELLEN BRAIT Staff Reporter Thu., March 9, 2017
https://www.thestar.com/news/crime/2017/03/09/toronto-teacher-pleads-guilty-to-sex-offences-involving-minors.html
https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2017/12/01/the-star-has-been-investigating-abuse-in-schools-since-2001.html
Ontario teacher who sexually exploited students sentenced to 2 years
By The Canadian Press Fri., May 19, 2017.
https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2017/05/19/ontario-teacher-who-had-sexual-encounters-with-students-sentenced-to-2-years.html
2013: PROJECT SPADE. International child pornography investigation.
Among those arrested were 40 school teachers, nine doctors and nurses, six law enforcement personnel, nine pastors and priests and three foster parents, she said.
https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/at-least-386-victims-rescued-after-project-spade-a-massive-child-porn-bust-that-started-in-toronto
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_International_child_pornography_investigation
2012: Ontario College of Teachers to kick out bad teachers, end secrecy.
https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2012/06/08/ontario_college_of_teachers_to_kick_out_bad_teachers_end_secrecy.html
2011: Soft-porn writing teacher resigns from watchdog.
https://www.thespec.com/news-story/2221198-soft-porn-writing-teacher-resigns-from-watchdog/
Bad teachers: Ontario's secret list
https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2011/09/29/bad_teachers_ontarios_secret_list.html
Predator teachers: Students ruined by teacher sex assaults.
https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2011/10/01/predator_teachers_students_ruined_by_teacher_sex_assaults.html
The Sexteens and the Fake Goddess is a lurid tale of striptease, breast fondling, bum grabbing, orgasms, drugs and blackmail that features a deputy headmaster who sweeps a sex assault under the carpet and tells male students at a pep rally that if he was younger he would have sex with all the girls in the audience. Another teacher gives a boy advice on French kissing and as the plot unfolds we learn that the deputy headmaster and a third teacher once had a threesome with a female student.
https://www.guelphmercury.com/news-story/2701881-teacher-watchdog-who-writes-soft-porn-for-teens-resigns/
Parents, these teachers could be in your school.
The Star has found that three years ago the backlogged Ontario College of Teachers began making more and more of these secret deals. These are not the worst of the worst — cases where a teacher was convicted of a criminal sexual assault on a student — but they are still serious abuses of trust. The Star reports on the more serious cases Saturday and the teaching profession’s inability to reduce the attacks 12 years after retired judge Sydney Robins probed that problem.
When it comes to keeping secret the names of some offenders, College Registrar Michael Salvatori said it is done if the teacher had a “momentary lapse of judgment.” Salvatori said that they make the decision in “the public interest.” Salvatori said College rules prevented him from commenting on any of the cases.
After the Star raised this and other issues with the College this summer, it hired respected retired judge Patrick LeSage just before Labour Day to examine its disciplinary practices. One of LeSage’s jobs is to “consider whether the College’s communication and publication practices prior to and following a hearing meet current standards of transparency.”
To determine how many teachers’ identities are kept secret, the Star first obtained all published decisions of teacher wrongdoing.
Each year, the Ontario College of Teachers makes a finding of wrongdoing in about 90 cases. The Star obtained copies of all decisions that the College makes public on its website or in its magazine. The College said it publishes these decisions to educate members and show to the public that it is doing its job of protecting students.
More and more, we found, problem teachers are shielded from the public.
Of the 49 cases published in 2010, 35 did not identify the teacher.
Of the 43 cases published in 2009, 20 did not identify the teacher.
Of the 38 cases published in 2008, 5 did not identify the teacher.
In most of these cases, the College also did not identify the school board and the school was never named.
In addition, between 40 and 50 College cases per year are not published at all.
The discipline decisions are made by committees comprised of teachers elected to the College’s governing council and members of the public. The college has three main committees that sit in judgment — investigation, discipline and fitness to practise. Typically, a three-person panel has two teachers and one public member.
The Star found that most teachers on the panels were previously members of a local bargaining unit of a teachers’ union.
The panels hear cases, decide if punishment (anything from an admonishment to revocation of licence) is necessary and determine if the teacher’s name should be published.
If Ryan Geekie was your son or daughter’s teacher you would not know that a very serious investigation was carried out into his conduct.
You would have no way of knowing that a summary report the College published in April 2010 about a teacher who used profane language was related to 36-year-old Hamilton teacher Ryan Geekie.
It took time but the Star was able to identify Geekie. We were then able to obtain a copy of the College’s original allegations and an agreed statement of facts between Geekie and the College.
Reached by the Star’s Jesse McLean at his Hamilton apartment, Geekie said he was “really tired” and could not answer questions.
Geekie was licensed by the College to teach in 2001. A well-known hockey goalie (Ontario Provincial Junior League) in the Hamilton area, Geekie attended McMaster University for his undergraduate degree and teachers college at Brock University. He became a high school English teacher at the Hamilton-Wentworth Catholic District School Board.
According to a school board investigation done in 2008, and allegations subsequently made by the College, Geekie was an abusive, lecherous teacher from 2003-2008 who:
• stuffed rolled paper balls down the shirts of female students
• called students “retarded,” “hooker,” “pole dancers,” “slut” and “whore”
• challenged a female student to a fist fight, then made a sexual suggestion that he would “find something for her to do with her fists”
• asked the class if an absent student’s mother had died of a sexually transmitted disease
• gave a female student extra marks for work she did not do
• told a female student with a tongue stud that they were for “oral sex”
• spoke in class about having sex in the back of his car, drank with students at parties, swore constantly in class and called people “gay” if he thought they were “stupid,” slapped female students on their buttocks with sticks or his hand, took showers with the boys hockey team and brushed a female student’s breast with his arm.
The Hamilton-Wentworth Catholic school board had heard complaints about Geekie over the years and they were dealt with at the school level, said board chair Pat Daly. In 2008, following an investigation into more serious allegations Geekie was put on paid “home” duty in February 2008. He was fired by the board just before the 2008-2009 school year began.
Geekie did not respond to three interview requests. He is listed as a teacher in good standing in Ontario after serving a one-month suspension in 2010. It appears he has taken a break from teaching and is delivering mail.
The case went to the College’s discipline committee and a deal was reached. Geekie pleaded no contest to a modified list of allegations (a perception among female students that he leered; that he questioned girls about their relationships; that he suggested female students stop talking about tongue studs “as they were for oral sex”; that he slapped the thigh of a female student with a metre stick; that he swore often and called students “whore,” “retard,” “gay” and “ditsy”). The committee said it published a summary of the case, keeping Geekie’s name secret, to “demonstrate the transparency of the discipline process” and as a “general deterrent” to teachers.
The committee kept Geekie’s name secret due to the contents of two “teacher evaluations” it received (the College does not say what was in them). The committee also heard from lawyers on both sides that his actions were “on the low end of the spectrum” of problem teachers. Finally, the committee noted that Geekie is likely not to reoffend because he has been told to take a course on “boundary issues.”
In a second case the Star was able to identify Peel District School Board teacher Massimo Tallarico, who was acquitted in 2009 of sexual assault and exploitation charges by a criminal court. The College’s own process found that he committed professional misconduct related to a female student in her Grade 7 and 8 years.
According to the College, Tallarico, who hung up when the Star contacted him, engaged in “an inappropriate relationship” with a student who was shy and introverted and suffered from a social anxiety disorder. He frequently emailed and instant messaged her, saying things like “lots of love,” “miss you lots,” “I wish I could talk to you all the time,” “can’t stop thinking about you, I didn’t want you to leave today” and “I always love it when you come and talk to me.” At his trial (two years before the College hearing), the judge called his communication with the girl — which he initially denied to police — “flirty and even sexually charged.”
The judge said she could not find that any sexual touching occurred (the student alleged it had) but she chided Tallarico for his behaviour. She said he was seen as “young and cool” and he “cultivated his image of being the most fun and popular teacher in the school.”
In his defence, Tallarico said his emails were innocuous and sent as a way to encourage a shy girl to communicate.
The judge found that Tallarico’s online chatting with the girl “did a grave disservice in her quest to become an adult.”
The teacher was reprimanded by the College and told to complete a course on appropriate boundaries.
The discipline committee voted two to one not to name him. One committee member argued he should have been identified because “publication of the findings and order without the member’s name amounts to suppression of information and raises questions in the minds of the public regarding the transparency of the process.”
One teacher the College did identify was a teacher whose only crime was to break their secrecy rules.
James Black, a teacher and former discipline committee member, was publicly named by the College and suspended for two years because the College suspected he leaked information to the media.
The committee suspected (but could not prove) that Black gave information to a CTV reporter in 2006 who was probing the College’s practice of allowing teachers convicted of sex crimes to be reinstated after their licence was revoked. The College claims Black leaked information to CTV News about a teacher convicted of sexual exploitation in 1990, who was jailed 15 months and later sought reinstatement.
In 2009, the committee fined its former member, Black, $1,000, and suspended him for two years.
The College ruled that Black was guilty of a serious “breach of confidentiality” which “may have damaged the professional image of the College and its members. The need for a strong general deterrent is imperative in this matter.”
Black, reached by the Star, said he could not comment on his case.
The teacher in the case that led to Black’s suspension, Rodney Palmer, was suspended in 1991 and reinstated in 2003 in a closed-door hearing. He taught for a time east of Toronto, then retired.
Data analysis: Andrew Bailey
Kevin Donovan can be reached at kdonovan@thestar.ca or (416) 869-4425
https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2011/09/29/bad_teachers_ontarios_secret_list.html
There are many smart, hard-working teachers, the
ones you are about to read about in
Ontario's school system are not among them.
ones you are about to read about in
Ontario's school system are not among them.
Predator teachers: Students ruined by teacher sex assaults.
Predator teachers have left a trail of wounded students across Ontario. Teachers, mostly male but some female, have sexually abused young people. Broken lives are the result.
Predator teachers have left a trail of wounded students across Ontario. Teachers, mostly male but some female, have sexually abused young people. Broken lives are the result.
Sadly, a Star investigation has found the number of known sexual assaults has held steady or increased most years, and most importantly the severity of the attacks has increased. Grooming — the term used to describe adults who charm, flatter and court children for months or years before the assault — is a factor in many cases.
TORONTO - Ontario’s College of Teachers says that under a proposed law, a teacher who marries a student would be exempt from allegations of sexual misconduct in cases where the relationship began when the pupil was younger than 18.
CASES IN THE NEWS
August 2, 2017
John Robert Leigh Taylor: Windsor Police Officer Accused of Being a Serial Sex Offender
Windsor Star
A former Windsor police officer is now accused of being a serial sex offender who preyed on children during the time he was a local cop.
A former Windsor police officer is now accused of being a serial sex offender who preyed on children during the time he was a local cop.
June 27, 2017
Richard Knill: Brampton Teacher Facing More Sexual Assault Charges
A Brampton high school teacher who was charged earlier this month for allegedly sexually exploiting a student now faces two more sex-related charges...
Sep 12, 2016
David Bradley, 59 of Oakwood pleaded guilty on Monday (Sept. 12) to luring a child and making sexually explicit material available.
LINDSAY - The devastation of lives that results from the sexual predation of children came into stark focus in a Lindsay courtroom on Monday (Sept. 12) as a former teacher was sentenced to 90 days in jail for two sexual offences.
In the 1980s, Canadians were shocked into awareness of the widespread evil of child sexual abuse. In Ontario alone, the names Cornwall, Prescott and London became synonymous with "respectable" pedophile rings -- lawyers, doctors, police officers and Catholic clergymen -- that for decades preyed on society's most vulnerable.
FIRST
There were 34 victims in a Cornwall child-molestation scandal, but even after a four-year, $53 million public inquiry no one knows if an organized pedophile ring was operating in Eastern Ontario.
Commissioner G. Normand Glaude released his 2,396-page report Tuesday, exposing "a combination of "systemic" failures, insensitivity to complaints, and a reluctance to act" on the part of church, school, children's aid, police and justice officials.
It seems to me Commissioner G. Normand Glaude was also reluctant to act.
The villains, it's alleged, are that most loathsome form of human life -- pedophiles. The pedophiles allegedly include Catholic priests and the city's leading citizens.
The pedophile ring has sparked endless charges of cover-ups and corruption in high places. The local MP is demanding a provincial inquiry. Some people even think the police may be in cahoots with the guilty.
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The little city of Cornwall, Ont., is not a place you'd expect unspeakable secrets to lurk. But for the past seven years, it has been racked by a dark drama that has shredded reputations and driven men to suicide. The villains, it's alleged, are that most loathsome form of human life -- pedophiles. The pedophiles allegedly include Catholic priests and the city's leading citizens.
The so-called pedophile ring has sparked endless charges of cover-ups and corruption in high places. The local MP is demanding a provincial inquiry. Some people even think the police may be in cahoots with the guilty. "The hysteria has been palpable," says Jacques Leduc, a respected lawyer who has lived in Cornwall all his life. "It has been a rather dark moment in our region's history."
The latest effort to track down the sex abusers is called Project Truth. It was launched in 1997 by the Ontario Provincial Police after the local police force was torn apart by the controversy. Since then, Project Truth has laid more than 100 charges against 14 men. But, so far, there has been not a single conviction. Six of the cases have yet to proceed. Four of the accused are dead. One man was acquitted; one was found unfit to stand trial; one had his charges dropped last fall. And one case was thrown out of court last week after a spectacular prosecutorial debacle. That case was Jacques Leduc's.
It all began in 1992, when the local Catholic church, in an effort to avert a criminal case, paid $32,000 in a private settlement to someone who said he was abused as an altar boy by a parish priest. The priest's guilt or innocence has never been tested in court.
Then along came a crusading cop named Perry Dunlop. Mr. Dunlop was scandalized that his own police force had decided there wasn't enough evidence to nail the priest. It was personal; Mr. Dunlop was a fervent convert to Catholicism, and the priest was his family priest.
His bosses told Mr. Dunlop to mind his own business. But he became obsessed, convinced that Cornwall's children were in peril from the priest and other predators. "If a loose cannon is protecting children, then I'm a loose cannon," he told the CBC's fifth estate in 1995. "We need to protect our children no matter what the rules say." He and his wife, Helen, launched their own private investigations and scoured the town for more victims. Eventually, other men came forward with stories of abuse by priests, probation officers, even a judge.
The Dunlops claimed the Cornwall pedophile ring went back for decades. They were depicted as heroes in Chatelaine and, last month, in The Report magazine. CBC Radio aired other stories that left no doubt that something evil had happened in Cornwall.
The Dunlops claimed the Cornwall pedophile ring went back for decades. They were depicted as heroes in Chatelaine and, last month, in The Report magazine. CBC Radio aired other stories that left no doubt that something evil had happened in Cornwall.
Meantime, another loose cannon named Dick Nadeau cranked up a crackpot Web site full of wild conspiracy theories and lists of alleged perpetrators. Three of the many men accused in the past few years have killed themselves.
Why would any accuser (none of whom can be identified) level false allegations? An obvious answer is money. In the past decade, people claiming to have been abused as children by men in positions of power have won millions of dollars in civil settlements. Some of these claims were legitimate; many were not. A dozen men from Cornwall are currently suing the province for $4.8-million.
Jacques Leduc was the church's lawyer in 1992. For conspiracy theorists, that was proof enough; they believed he was at the heart of the cover-up. In 1998, he was arrested after two men claimed he'd assaulted them while they were teenagers doing casual jobs around his house. "I am not a man who is faint of heart," says Mr. Leduc. "But this was devastating."
His trial began in January. Then, last week, came a stunning revelation: The crusading cop's fingerprints were all over the case. The mother of a witness testified that Mr. Dunlop had told her the best way to bleed Mr. Leduc dry was through a civil action. After that, her son went after Mr. Leduc for $2-million. (In a different trial last year, a witness described how Mr. Dunlop had coached him to perjure himself.) What's more stunning, the Crown attorney knew of the Dunlop connection but concealed it.
THEN IN 2013 THE BIGGEST CHILD
PORN RING IN CANADIAN HISTORY
IS FOUND OPERATING IN ONTARIO.
What was most alarming, Inspector Beaven-Desjardins said, was that many of the arrests were of people who worked with or closely interacted with children.
Nov 30, 2016 - I hope doubtful people can now see that the most respected and revered positions in a community are involved in these pedophile rings...
108 Canadians, have been arrested in an international child pornography ring that was largely centred around a Toronto-based film company that distributed images and videos across the globe.
Nearly 400 children have been rescued and 348 adults arrested following an expansive and “extraordinary” international child pornography investigation, Canadian police announced Thursday.
The three-year project, named Project Spade, began when undercover officers with the Toronto Police Service Child Exploitation service made contact with a Toronto man allegedly sharing “very graphic images” of child sexual abuse in Oct. 2010, Toronto Police Service Chief William Blair said at a press conference on Thursday.
Police said their investigation revealed an entire child movie production and distribution company in Toronto operating via the web site azovfilms.com.
The site was run by 42-year old Brian Way, according to police, and sold and distributed images of child exploitation to people across the world.
Inspector Joanna Beaven-Desjardins, head of Toronto’s Sex Crimes Unit, said they enlisted the help of the United States Postal Inspection Service since many of the videos were being exported to the U.S. and began a joint investigation.
After a seven-month long investigation, officers executed search warrants across the city of Toronto including at the business, located in the city’s West End.
Investigators catalogued hundreds of thousands of images and videos of “horrific sexual acts against very young children, some of the worst they have ever viewed,” Inspector Beaven-Desjardins said at the press conference.
Police seized over 45 terabytes of data from the $4-million business that distributed to over 50 counties including Australia, Spain, Mexico, Sweden and Greece.
As a result of the investigation thus far, 50 people were arrested in Ontario, 58 in the rest of Canada, 76 in the United States, and 164 internationally.
Citing a particularly egregious example, she said police found over 350,000 images and over 9,000 videos of child sexual abuse in the home of a retired Canadian school teacher. Some of the images were of children known to the man and he was also charged with sexually abusing a child relative.
The inspector said an indispensable aspect to the success of the operation and the rescue of 386 children from child exploitation was the expansive cooperation between Toronto police and organizations worldwide.
“[This] confirms that when we work together regardless of the borders that divide us we can successfully take down those who not only prey on our most vulnerable but also profit from it,” she said.
Police said the children were “rescued from child exploitation” but did not give more details.
Way was charged with 24 counts, including possession of, distribution of, and importing and exporting child pornography.
The investigation is ongoing and more arrests could be made, police said.
The Associated Press contributed to this report
DANIELLA SILVA, NBC NEWS
FIRST PUBLISHED NOV 14 2013.
FIRST PUBLISHED NOV 14 2013.
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