There are three court-dates scheduled for tomorrow, Tuesday, 04 September 2012. Please keep all the complainants in your prayers, and please, if you are within driving distance of the courthouse and free to go, do pop in. And, as always, please pass on links to media coverage or news of the outcome in a comment or in an email to me (cornwall@theinquiry.ca)
Here is the list for tomorrow:
(1) Father William Hodgson Marshall (Basilian)
Tuesday 04 September 2012: 09:30 am, courtroom #10, Windsor Ontario courthouse, “to take a plea” (?)/”to be spoken to.”
As I said before, this court date is related to the sex abuse charges from Saskatoon, Saskatchewan which were transferred to Ontario. Some may recall that there was a ‘sweet deal’ of some sort involved in the last charges which assured Marshall that no further charges would be laid in Ontario in exchange for a guilty plea. The Saskatchewan allegations fell beyond the scope of the deal. Charges were laid in Saskatchewan February 2012 and shortly thereafter the entire file was transferred to and is now being dealt with in Ontario.
Marshall’s 20 July court-date was supposed to be “to take a plea.” His lawyer Andrew Bradie asked that the case be put over so that he has time to discuss new developments.
What the new developments are is an unknown, however the court docket indicates that two matters will be dealt with in court tomorrow.
Is there still a possibility that Father Marshall will enter a plea tomorrow? I suppose there is. It’s hard to know what is going on here. I and others will be waiting word from those who attend.
(2) Father John Sullivan (Diocese of Sault Ste Marie)
Tuesday 04 September 2012: 09:30 am, courtroom #101, North Bay, Ontario court house (360 Plouffe Street), “to be spoken to.”
Father Sullivan lives in Montreal now. I highly doubt that he will be there tomorrow, but one truly never knows!
(3) Father Jean-Claude Lefebvre (Diocese of Sault Ste Marie)
Tuesday 04 September 2012: 10 am, for “an application” at the Sudbury, Ontario courthouse (155 Elm St.)
As I said previously, I don’t know what the application is about.
This has been going on since late 2010. There surely must be a trial date in the offing by now?
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I have been going through document after document on the Father Eric Ensey and Society of Saint John scandal. What a dirty convoluted mess! Another case of shoot the messenger. I really don’t want to say much more until I get it all sorted out and am in a position to actually show you what transpired. Rest assured it’s not a pretty picture.
I now really need to be able to sit down and go from document to document to document with a clear mind. I also need to get time lines sorted out and have started that process. It will take even longer than I thought. But, it will get done.
Enough for now,
Sylvia