Cornwall Standard Freeholder

09 September 2008

Posted By MICHAEL PEELING

Angelo Towndale admitted it was naive of him to think there wasn't a need for a Children's Aid Society policy stating staff members were not to have sexual contact with the youths they guided in the 1970s.

"It never entered my mind there would be a need for such a policy," Towndale said.

Citizens for Community Renewal counsel Helen Daly then pointed out a ward of a Second Street group home claimed to have had a sexual relationship with a Children's Aid Society worker in the home from the time she was 13 to 15 years old.

Towndale agreed the charge was appalling and the worker should have been fired. He said it was "definitely not" appropriate for a worker to physically abuse a child.