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	Boards Remove Letter in Textbooks by Bishop Accused in Child Pornography Case Canada.com March 19, 2010 http://www.canada.com/news/Boards+remove+letter+textbooks+Bishop+accused+child+pornography+case/2704222/story.html WINDSOR, Ont. — Windsor's Catholic school board has combed through textbooks for hundreds of elementary students and pasted over the writing of a former bishop now facing child pornography charges. School boards across Canada have also made the change after direction came down from the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops. Bishop Ronald Fabbro of the London Diocese also endorsed the initiative. The writing was a letter of introduction in a series called We Are Strong Together for students in grades 7, 8 and 9. It was written by Raymond Lahey, who once helped broker a $15-million settlement for victims of priest sex abuse in Nova Scotia. He's now charged with possessing and importing child pornography. Lahey, 69, has resigned from his post in Nova Scotia. In September, five days after a court approved the abuse settlement that Lahey helped achieve, he arrived in Ottawa on a flight from the United Kingdom. Border guards pulled him aside for secondary inspection. He was later charged. "Nobody knows if he's guilty or not," said Christine Choury, communications director for the CCCB. "But because these books were destined to children, that was the idea. It was done out of pastoral concern for the students and their families."
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