Victims feel like they bared it all, for nothing

Victims feel like they bared it all, for nothing

In the days after Andr‚ Bissonnette left the witness stand at the Cornwall Public Inquiry last May, he got a phone call from his daughter.

Both she and her boyfriend had spent the last four hours reading the transcripts of his testimony - the stories of how, as a 14-year-old boy in 1963, he was sexually assaulted by another teen while in foster care, and later shipped off to an infamous reform school in Alfred, Ont.
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André Bissonnette was devastated when he learned in February his testimony at the Cornwall Public Inquiry would not be used to find fault against the Children’s Aid Society. A recovering alcoholic, Bissonnette, 59, said he contemplated getting drunk for the first time in nine years after hearing Comm. Normand Glaude’s ruling.