Local News – AM 1220

January 30, 2009 — The hearing room at the Cornwall Public Inquiry is dark after three years of testimony. Deputy Attorney General Murray Segal was the final person to testify at the three year probe into child sex abuse allegations in the area. He stepped down from the witness box yesterday afternoon but the inquiry is not over. The lights will be turned on again at the end of February. At that time, lawyers will make final submissions. Segal says he looks forward to the final report. (Hear audio clip below) Commissioner Normand Glaude must submit his final report to the Province by the end of July. 

After more than 300 days of testimony, inquiry hears from last witness 

The Victoria Star Published

Thursday January 29th, 2009   

The Canadian Press

 CORNWALL, Ont. - After more than 300 days of testimony and more than 3,300 exhibits, the Cornwall Public Inquiry is in its last hours of testimony. 

The last witness is Deputy Attorney General Murray Segal, who says he was not aware of a feeling that there were not enough victim services during the Project Truth investigation looking into allegations of a pedophile ring.

 Provincial police laid more than 100 charges against 15 men from the Cornwall, Ont., area. Only one suspect was convicted, and he was not connected to an alleged pedophile ring.

The inquiry, which has heard from nearly 180 witnesses, was established in 2005 to look at how a number of public institutions, including the provincial justice system, handled historical sexual abuse allegations.