Hearings resume at 10:30 am.
Big decisions coming down in both Cornwall courts today (Friday, 21 September 2007).
Steve Parisien will learn his fate at 09:30 hours (9:30 am).
Guilty or not guilty?
Will justice be done?
………In Cornwall?
Truly an oxymoron.
But, ….hope does and must spring eternal.
Someday the pendulum will swing. I earnestly pray it is today.
If you haven’t done so already, please give Steve a hand financially. His attempts to, as Justice Glaude would say, find a ‘damn good” lawyer, have been stressful and out of pocket. It’s been a tough nine or ten months since Justice Glaude first threw Steve out to the wolves: the first victim of the Cornwall Public Inquiry – a victim sorely and cruelly re-vectimized.
I still catch myself when I say Steve’s “trial.”
How did it come to this?
But, it did. And here Steve is. Friday 21 September 2007. Awaiting a verdict. Guilty or not guilty.
Unbelievable!
And one hour and a few block away, over at the Weave Shed court, 10:30 am , the Dunlops will learn their fate.
Helen has testified all week. The suffering the entire Dunlop family has endured since Perry blew the whistle is beyond comprehension. At times – barring the pride of lions – there was not a dry eye in the place. Helen cried. We cried with her.
She is tired. The strain was showing.
Today Perry and Helen are back.
They were given the night to decide if Perry would re-assess and decide to testify. More pressure.
A contempt of court charge looms.
Their flights home to their children are booked for this evening.
It’s all unsettling. Surreal. I couldn’t touch the keyboard last night and in all honesty have trouble getting this off this morning.
Meanwhile news that a brave victim has come forward – more charges against Robert Sabourin, the aging former Roman Catholic teacher, buddy of former Bishop Adolphe Proulx and unofficial photographer for the Diocese of Alexandria-Cornwall.
I will post what I can …
Enough for now,
Sylvia