Gerry Renshaw was on the stand until 6 pm yesterday (Wednesday 20 June 2007). Nine gruelling hours! He returns at 1 pm Monday, 25 June 2007. There are no hearings today or Friday.
I am pondering if perhaps there is invariably and always a price to pay for those who publicly testify or whisper aloud that there is or was a paedophile ring or clan in Cornwall? It’s starting to look that way. Yesterday was another turning point in this non-Project Truth inquiry which saw both Peter Manderville (Cornwall Police Service) and David Sheriff-Scott (diocese/Bishop Durocher) leap from their seats in enraged protest, Manderville at mention of Claude Shaver as one who spent time at Malcolm MacDonald’s porn ridden cottage, and Sheriff-Scott at similar mention of Bishop Eugene Larocque.
It all blew up because Gerry Renshaw testified that in the time he knew probation officer Ken Seguin and the 18 months he lived at Seguin’s waterfront home in Summerstown, Ontario he saw a number of prominent men in the community coming and going at both Seguin’s home and at the Stanley Island cottage of lawyer and former Crown attorney Malcolm MacDonald which was replete with gay porn magazines and had an entire bedroom wall papered with male pin ups and gay porn.
Renshaw, as you will see shortly, identified some of those he saw at either locale.
Now “they” are going after Gerry with a vengeance. Gerry’s examination in chief finally wrapped up around 3 pm yesterday (Wednesday 20 June 2007), someone gave the battle cry, up went the sabres and away they went. This “alleged” victim is going to be demolished, discredited, denounced and/or humiliated by whatever means. I literally got chills when I witnessed what has already transpired and what is just around the corner for Gerald Renshaw in that Weave Shed. To date, courtesy of David Sheriff-Scott/Bishop Durocher, the “theory” has been very publicly advanced that Gerry’s brother Bob was a male prostitute who wasn’t abused but in fact prostituted himself for money, and that Gerry following in his brother’s footsteps, did likewise.
How cheap,base, disgusting and vile can this get?
Should I be surprised? Another victim – Bobby Renshaw - re-victimized? Another – Gerry – about to be drawn and quartered? No. Of course not. I shouldn’t be surprised. I’ve seen what “they” did to Perry Dunlop. Not once. Not twice. But time and time again. But, it doesn’t get any easier, be it Perry Dunlop under attack, or David Silmser, or Gerry Renshaw. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, when it comes to the Cornwall sex abuse scandal and defending the indefensible, the end always seems to justify the means.
Anyway, for the time being I will get on with other things. For now there are a number of points I want to cover regarding Gerry’s testimony to date. I’ll focus solely on the names entered into evidence and deal with the rest later. Meanwhile, if you haven’t already done so, I suggest you read Gerry’s November 1996 statement.
(1) Malcolm’s Stanley Island cottage
Malcolm MacDonald – lawyer for Father Charles MacDonald, former Crown attorney, brother of convicted paedophile Milton MacDonald, uncle of Cornwall Crown attorney Murray MacDonald, – owned a cottage on Stanley Island in the St. Lawrence river, the body of water separating Canada and the USA . The cottage was a five-minute boat ride from probation officer Ken Seguin’s waterfront home and was visible with the naked eye from Seguin’s. With the aid of binoculars one could see who was on the cottage property.
According to Gerry the cottage was littered with gay porn. Three bedrooms opened off the main living area. The centre bedroom’s walls were “wallpapered” with gay porn. The porn was visible from the living room when the bedroom door was open.
Gerry testified there was gay porn “all over” the cottage, mostly magazines on the coffee tables. It sounds as though there were at least two coffee tables in the living area.
There was also a collection of unlabelled videotapes which were identified by number.
Malcolm kept his boat at Ken’s. If he had a large group heading over Malcolm would squire them in his boat and on “numerous occasions” Gerry would take others who, for example, arrived later over in Ken’s boat.
There were people heading over to the cottage on a regular basis. Sometimes Gerry would have need to check with the binoculars to see who was over at Malcolm’s.
Malcolm MacDonald pled guilty to charges of obstruct justice and received an absolute discharge. He died in Fort Lauderdale before facing a raft of sex abuse charges.
(2) At the cottage
Gerry testified that he saw the following persons at or going to Malcolm MacDonald’s cottage:
Bishop Eugene Larocque
Father Kevin Maloney
Father Charles MacDonald
Father David Ostler
Father Ranald (Rory) MacDonald
Ken Seguin
Stuart MacDonald (former staff inspector with Cornwall Police Service. Brother-in-law of Perry Dunlop)
Ron Wilson (formerly policeman with Cornwall police. Owner of Wilson funeral home)
Claude Shaver (former Chief of Cornwall Police Service – would have been Chief at the time)
David Latreille
Jos Van Diepen (probation officer)
Andre Pommier (the son)
Dale Crowder
Ron Leroux
(3) At St. Andrew’s Roman Catholic Church, St. Andrew’s, Ontario
When Father Charles MacDonald was parish priest Gerry saw the following there, I gather in the rectory. Those whom Gerry testified he recalls at this time seeing there :
Father Charles MacDonald
Malcolm MacDonald
Ken Seguin
Ron Leroux
(4) At Harv’s diner on Pitt Street, Cornwall
Harv’s Diner is a restaurant owned and operated by Harvey Latour an accused paedophile. Latour was found ‘not guilty enough’ at his Project Truth sex abuse trial. Those whom Gerry testified he recalls at this time seeing there
Charles Macdonald
Malcolm MacDonald
Ken Seguin
Ron Wi