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Hall wanted to charge CBC journalist

Cornwall Standard Freeholder

10 December 2008

(Staff) -- Det. Insp. Pat Hall also told the Cornwall Public Inquiry he wanted to charge a CBC journalist with violating a publication ban after she reported there was "a connection" between Project Truth suspects.

During one of the Project Truth pre-trials, the journalist quoted Crown attorney Alain Godin's statement to a judge that there was a "type of grooming that went on from one (suspect) to another to another." Godin also said there was "a connection" between some of the suspects.

In the same report, the journalist also spoke with a senior OPP official who denied they had uncovered any evidence of a pedophile clan or ring in the Cornwall area.

"She should have been charged under the Criminal Code," said Hall, who took over the reins of Project Truth -the OPP's four-year investigation into the clan rumours -in 1999.

Hall later wrote he felt the journalist had "insinuated" there was a ring.

He said he consulted with three Crown attorneys, who all felt a publication ban had been breached.

The evidence heard in pre-trial hearings is usually covered by such a ban.

No charges were ever laid, however.

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Comments on this Article.

Again hall thinks he is the judge and jury only the crown can decide if charges should be laid in this instance. The fact that the suspects knew each other was no coincidence and it can't be ignored.

Reply | Report | Page Top Post #1 By dodger,

if cbc journalist broke the law.then it is your duty sir to arrest him or her period.

Reply | Report | Page Top Post #2 By luckyred,

That's right "luckyred". Don't discuss it, threaten it, say could have, would have, should have, or wanted to...DO IT!! When I was a police constable, for a brief time, very brief time, if "I had reasoable and probable grounds" to charge anyone with a criminal offence or to suggest discipline of anyone otherwise, then I would have done it!! Not threatened to do it or in hindsight, say, "I wanted to...".

Hello!! Anyone else see anything wrong with this picture....yet this is the type of testimony entered into the record; all accounts of what is basically, fantasy and daydreaming.

On the other hand, if I didn't charge someone, who I knew should have been charged with a criminal offence or similar, because, I had reasonable and probable grounds to charge that individual, that is, reasoable and probable grounds to the extent that today I can still declare, "I wanted to lay charges against..." when I didn't, then, what consequences should I face, if I failed to act at the time the offences were committed or I learned about the offences?
Why all of a sudden, is all this B.S. about what they wanted to do but didn't do, being entered into the record? Another reason, why "little old me" should have been "running the show". I guarantee you all, we wouldn't be here today!!

Reply | Report | Page Top Post #3 By JAMES "SPEAK OUT",

Those CBC journalists were put through HE** !!! They did a fabulous job at the outset...but were getting too close....alot of people can vouch for that! Mr. Hall...if you wanted to charge them - WHY didn't you??? The BLAME GAME is absolutely pathetic. How can Pat Hall look himself in the mirror???

Reply | Report | Page Top Post #4 By RealityChecker,