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The Good Father
Aired February 28
2007 at 9pm
on CBC-TV
& March 2, 2006
at 10pm ET/PT
on CBC Newsworld

WATCH the fifth estate ONLINE:
church
Runs: 41:18
Video available in Windows Media Player.

REPORTER:
Hana Gartner
PRODUCER
:
Catherine Annau
ASSOCIATE PRODUCERS:
Sheila Mandell
Andrea Lee
Lynette Fortune

ON-LINE INTERVIEW
Rob Talach
Read/watch an
interview with Rob Talach, a lawyer who specializes in sexual abuse cases and represents 21 of Father Sylvestre's victims. MORE
RESOURCES & DOCUMENTS
Resources
Vatican: The Holy See - official site of the Vatican
From Pain to Hope - 96-page booklet that addresses the issue of sexual abuse of minors by clergy published by The Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops (CCCB) Ad Hoc Committee on Child Sexual Abuse

Documents
Affidavit from Guest House, an alcohol treatment facility in Michigan that Sylvestre stayed at in 1989
Affidavit from Southdown, a treatment facility for clergy and religious members that Sylvestre stayed at in 1992
Handwritten notes made by Fr. Richard Tremblay
Letter from Bishop Sherlock to the fifth estate
Letter from Emmett Carter to Sylvestre on the occasion of his 25th anniversary as a priest
Copies of witness statements from 1962 that turned up in the diocese's files last October
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