A four-year investigation in Cornwall, Ont., has ended without turning up evidence of an organized pedophile ring, or of a cover-up.

Project Truth was the third investigation into the allegations. It produced 115 charges from gross indecency to sexual assault.

Of 15 people charged, seven either remain before the courts or are awaiting trial.

But the Ontario Provincial Police have brought the investigation to an end without producing evidence of an organized ring of pedophiles.

"It doesn't mean it was a ring, just because the same person may or may not have been victimized by two different people," said Det.-Spt. Jim Miller.

Cornwall Police Chief Tony Repa's spokesman Blake Paquin said the OPP conclusion lifts a cloud of suspicion from the police.

'I think the whole thing is a great victory for pedophiles'
"Allegations were made against the Cornwall Community Police Service of a cover-up in these matters," he said. "The chief is very pleased with these findings."

But others are definitely not pleased, among them Perry Dunlop, the veteran Cornwall cop who first sounded the alarm over the allegations.

"I think the whole thing is a great victory for pedophiles," he said.

Dunlop was disciplined after he spoke out about alleged abuse to Children's Aid workers. A subsequent investigation by Cornwall police led to no charges.

Ottawa West-Nepean member of the provincial parliament Gary Guzzo, a PC backbencher, has been an outspoken critic of the investigations and the province's role in them.

He has accused the government of participating in a cover-up and said he will push for yet another investigation into the alleged pedophile ring.