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  Diocese Had Doubts on Claim

By Trevor Pritchard
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June 28, 2008

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Church officials left a 1993 meeting with serious doubts about David Silmser's sexual abuse allegations against a local Roman Catholic priest, the Cornwall Public Inquiry heard Friday.

"We felt that some details were not given possibly because he didn't want to or that they had slipped his mind or that perhaps many things had been dreamed up," Rev. Denis Vaillancourt wrote in a September 1993 letter to the Children's Aid Society.

Vaillancourt, the chancellor for the Alexandria-Cornwall Roman Catholic Diocese, met with Silmser and two other church officials at the diocese's Cornwall office in January 1993.

 
 

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