Chisholm chuckles at inquiry accusations

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Thursday, August 23, 2007

Local News - Cornwall (Staff)

The brother-in-law of former city cop Perry Dunlop says he "chuckled" after hearing testimony at the Cornwall Public Inquiry that he and Dunlop encouraged a witness to fabricate details about his sexual abuse.

The witness, who cannot be named because of a publication ban, told the inquiry Wednesday that Dunlop and Carson Chisholm both encouraged him to embellish his story of abuse at the hands of former Cornwall elementary school teacher Marcel Lalonde.

The man testified that Dunlop and Chisholm said there would be more money at stake in a civil suit if the abuse happened on a school-sanctioned trip, because he could then sue the school board.

Chisholm scoffed at those allegations on Thursday, calling the allegation "bullsh*t" and denying he ever had such a conversation with the witness.

"There's so much real story there. You don't have to embellish it," he said.

Lalonde was convicted in 2000 for a number of sex-related offenses and spent time in prison. 

Inquiry has brought abuse back to life for alleged victim

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Thursday, August 23, 2007 - 08:00

Local News - By Terri Saunders

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A witness told the Cornwall Public Inquiry today he thought he'd put the abuse he'd suffered a young man behind him until he was forced to testify before the commission.

"I thought I was okay until this came up again," said the man, who cannot be identified due to a publication ban. "I'm just trying to put all this behind me."

The man was a complainant in a 2000 trial when a city school teacher was convicted of sexually abusing a number of young boys. The man has also claimed he was sexually abused by Ron Leroux, a man who has testified at that inquiry as a victim of alleged sexual abuse. Leroux has denied the allegations leveled against him by this man.

The witness has also admitted stories he told in the past about having been abused by a city priest were fabricated in order to please Perry

Dunlop, a former city cop who led a crusade against alleged child molesters in the 1990s in Cornwall.
The man told the inquiry he did not want to participate in hearings, but did comply with a subpeona to appear issued by the commission.

"I just wanted to go on with my life; I'd had enough," said the man. "And then the next thing you know, I get a subpeona."

The inquiry is continuing.