Perry Dunlop “Story” 

Perry Dunlop’s Will State PART 2 (pp 103 - 110)

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WILL STATE - Constable Perry Dunlop                          

                            Cornwall Police Service                 April 7, 2000  

It was well known that Classical College recruited young male Catholic candidates that excelled in grade school. The intention of the school was to educate these boys so that they would be the future priests, lawyers, doctors, politicians and businessmen. Create a network within the community. Mr. Nadeau has gone to Project Truth with his allegations. It is my understanding that he is in the company of other victims from the Cornwall area. 

69.  If you were to take a look at statistics alone let me refer to Doctor John Bradford's Affidavit that he gave in the context of my Police Act hearing. Bradford is the Head of the Royal Ottawa Hospital and is considered an expert in the field of study and treatment of pedophiles. Here is an excerpt: "Various Studies that have surveyed paedophiles has shown that the average paedophile has 50-75 victims in a lifetime."

(Book One - Tab 10) 

Looking at the above list I am saying these men were not average. Most of these men were in positions of trust and power. These positions afforded them unlimited access to potential victims. 

GOING ON STATISTICS ALONE THE NUMBER OF VICTIMS MUST BE STAGGERING. 

70.  It is my firm belief that as the truth surfaces in this case that residents in Cornwall will see first hand the heinous crimes that have been committed against our children. 

71. Throughout this ordeal, that has lasted seven years, I have acted in a proper, legal, moral and ethical manner. 

This case has invaded and breached every aspect of my life as well as my family's life. 

My life as a Police Officer and a human being will never be the same. 

Very few people from the Service have reached out to my family in a time of unbelievable and unwarranted stress. I have been seeing a psychiatrist since 

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June 20th 1994. His letter is attached to this document. (Book Four - Tab 8) 

72.  Most recent in the case is that of an Ottawa M.P.P. He has publicly announced that he has made the Premier of Ontario Mike Harris aware of the situation in Cornwall on two separate occasions since September of 1998.(Book Four - Tab 9) 

As I note in this correspondence, Mr. Gary Guzzo quotes from the Attorney General, The Honourable Jim Flaherty's press release of January 11, 2000. 

1.  "The Attorney General has a special responsibility to be vigilant in protecting our children." 

2.  "Our Government and people of Ontario have no higher priority than protecting children from harm." 

3.  "It is crucial that we continue to take steps to help ensure that children are not victimized." 

4.  "As a Government we have responsibility to do everything we can to protect societies most vulnerable members from the harm of sexual exploitation." 

As per ordered, I will submit all of the information that I have received. I realize that I am an Officer of the Court and I know my obligations. For seven years I have been living and breathing this case. 

I have no secretary, case manager, partner, supervisor or crown attorney to rely on. 

With the exception of occasional legal help and advice, I have been on my own. If there is any documentation that I have failed to provide, it is not due to negligence. This criminal file is huge. I have lost myself in it many times. 

My prime concern in this entire matter is the safety of children and justice for the victims. 

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73. On the 24th of March I received a report from the Law Commission of Canada. It was entitled: Restoring Dignity Responding to Child Abuse in Canadian Institutions. I had been given a copy of the discussion paper, 22 December 1998. I had received a call from Susan Alter representing the Federal Minister of Justice. I was contacted and asked if I had anything I could add to the topic of child abuse. 

In reading the Executive Summary there are key points discussed. I have attached a copy of this report to this will state. It is my understanding that the full report is five hundred pages. 

Here are a few statements made in this report. 

"It is often said that children are our future. How we treat our children and how we allow them to be treated reveals much about ourselves and about our values as a society. 

Over the past ten to fifteen years, child abuse has surfaced as a painful issue for Canadians. With greater public discussion, has come greater awareness that children have been abused not only in their homes and by strangers, but also in institutions where they have been placed for their education, welfare, rehabilitation or even protection. Many of these institutions were run by or on behalf of federal, provincial and territorial governments. 

From the outset, the Commission was confronted with three key facts. First, the majority of children placed in institutions came from the most underprivileged or marginalised groups in society. These included children with disabilities, children from racial and ethnic minorities, Aboriginal children, and children living in poverty, among others. 

Secondly, a significant power imbalance existed between the children and those in charge of these institutions, one that went beyond the obvious power imbalance between the child and an adult in a position of authority. Many teachers, counsellors, supervisors and guards for example, had the added weight of institutional authority behind them, the moral weight of a respected religious order or the official power of a government. 

Thirdly, there was little independent monitoring of what went on inside these institutions. This lack of effective protection of children cannot be attributed to a single simple cause. In some cases however, the desire to preserve the good 

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name of an institution took precedence over a concern for the welfare of children. 

Central to the Commission's approach to assessing responses is the perspective of survivors. They have by far the weakest voice of all parties involved in allegations of institutional child abuse. Too often, their needs have been considered incidental to other priorities such as the punishment of perpetrators. It is the Commission's hope that, by focussing on survivors, it will help make all processes of redress more responsive to their needs. 

Responses 

Ideally, a process for providing redress should take into account the needs of survivors, their families and their communities in a manner that is fair, fiscally responsible and acceptable to the public. The Commission has framed this idea through eight criteria by which various redress options may be assessed. 

Respect, engagement and choice - does the process respect and engage survivors as well as offer them comprehensive information about the process itself? 

Fact - finding - can the process uncover the facts necessary in order to validate whether abuse took place and what circumstances allowed it to occur? 

Accountability - do those administering the process have the authority to hold people and organizations accountable for their actions? 

Fairness - is the process fair to survivors as well as other parties affected by it? 

Acknowledgement, apology and reconciliation - does the process provide for acknowledgement, apology and reconciliation where abuse has occurred? 

Compensation, counselling and education - can the process address the needs of survivors for compensation, counselling and education? 

Needs of familles communities and peoples - can the process meet the needs of the families of survivors as well as their communities and peoples? 

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Prevention and public education - does the process contribute to public awareness and prevention? 

The criminal justice system is well-suited to identifying individual perpetrators of abuse and holding them liable. It is however, less effective in shedding light on the systematic problems that may have allowed the abuse to occur in the first place. 

Both criminal and civil actions are characterized by a formal structure and adversarial in nature that does nothing to encourage acknowledgement, apology or reconciliation. These factors also make it difficult to engage the participants fully. 

In fact, both criminal and civil trials can take a personal toll on survivors of institutional child abuse who must recall highly sensitive and painful memories in a confrontational setting. 

There are other drawbacks as well. For example, both options place certain limits on the examination of abuse alleged to have occurred many years ago. Furthermore, even when the outcome vindicates the survivor's claim, criminal prosecutions and civil actions cannot address the broader range of survivors' needs such as therapy, counselling or education. 

However, because trials are public, they can help to raise public awareness of this issue. 

Canadians tend to be aware only of the most notorious examples of institutional child abuse, and they do not understand the long-term effects of child abuse. To achieve effective prevention, public knowledge must be increased. There is a misconception that, because many institutions have been closed, the problem has been taken care of and is now behind us. 

This is clearly not the case. We have only begun to confront the past and there is a real danger that we have not learned enough from it. 

The Law Commission's review of processes for responding to past institutional child abuse points to concerns beyond prevention and public education. Understanding the circumstances of institutional child abuse highlights the need to investigate the causes of abuse and exploitation in all relationships of unequal power. This review also reveals how children from socially and economically marginalised groups have been disproportionately, the victims of institutional 

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abuse, and how devastating this has been on families and communities. Finally, it invites us to examine the assumptions the law makes concerning the balance to be struck between compensation and therapy, between addressing the individual wrongdoing and correcting systematic failures, and between remedying harm to individuals and building or rebuilding families and communities. The Law Commission sees these concerns as central to addressing the question asked in this Reference and to its own work in the future. 

Institutional child abuse has been a tragedy of enormous proportion in this country. All Canadians must recognise the legacy of institutional child abuse not only to redress the terrible harms done in the past but also to ensure that they do not recur. It is our responsibility as a society to respond to the needs of those who survived and to do our utmost to honour the memory of those who did not. 

Police, social service agencies, hospitals and the offices of health care professionals should have access to literature or help-line numbers which they may refer those who may disclose experiences of child abuse. 

Those involved in investigating, prosecuting, defending and judging allegations of institutional child abuse should have special training, expertise or experience and should have access to survivor-sensitive protocols that have been developed for this purpose. 

As a rule, the first substantive interview in an investigation should be conducted by a person with whom a survivor feels comfortable, and this option should be presented to survivors. 

All major decisions about how the police intend to proceed should be explained fully to the complainant(s), especially any decision not to lay charges or to terminate an investigation." 

(Book Four - Tab 10) 

In briefly reading the Law Commission reports they hit home on several key issues. The Ontario Attorney General seems to be echoing the Law Commission's report. It is up to us as a community to put these recommendations and ideas into action for the greater benefit of our society. 

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74. Survivors are heros who have endured the worst violations imaginable and some violations that we could never imagine. 

Survivors are most often reluctant to speak about abuse because they are ashamed of it, and often they can not believe this event happened to them. 

Survivors need to know that we, as a community, will listen to them. They need to trust before they will come forward. 

Survivors want to reclaim their past, we owe them this debt. Survivors have much to teach us if we will listen. I have learned that survivors want very little in return. 

Survivors want to hear: I'm sorry, I believe you and from the perpetrators they want to hear: what I did to you was wrong. 

For the survivors, the reporting of child sexual abuse is not about monetary gain it is about truth justice and healing. 

75.  If we are so blind that we cannot see that pedophiles are powerful, sophisticated, connected, educated, often holding positions of extreme trust and power within our communities; 

If we stand by while the perpetrators groom and stalk our children while lulling everyone around them, as they build their own self serving credibility within our communities; 

If we cannot protect our children, if we stand complacent in silence with full knowledge or one shred of evidence that a child may be in harms way, we have lost our courage; 

If we do not recognize the enormous damages caused by child sexual assault and cut it out at it's roots swiftly and effectively with all of our resources; 

IF WE DO NOT EDUCATE OUR CHILDREN AND THE COMMUNITY, THENWE HAVE FAILED. 

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I want no part of the explanation our generation gives in the future for our current or past failings, in this simple black and white issue, THE SAFETY OF OUR CHILDREN. 

76. I have not and will not paint everyone involved with the police service, judicial system, Catholic Church and our community with a broad brush.There are many good people who genuinely care about the outcome of this case and want to see justice done. 

77.  Above all else we must ensure that our children are safe.

TO DENY, IS TO ENABLE. 

Protecting our own children comes first, of course. To do more, to help children not our own, is a luxury many feel they can't afford. In fact, however, since some of the children now being mistreated will grow up angry and violent, and our kids will live in the same society with them, we cannot afford to do less. 

In the most literal sense, anyone abusing any child might as well be abusing yours. 

These words are taken from a book by Gavin De Becker called protecting the gift.(1999 Random House)  

DATED at Cornwall, Ontario, this 7th day of April, 2000. 

Constable Perry Dunlop

 Cornwall Police Service 

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