CBC Ottawa wins CAJ award for sexual abuse investigation

A CBC Ottawainvestigation into three teachers at one Ottawa high school who abused students over the course of three decades has won a prestigious national journalism award.

Reporter Julie Ireton and producer Jennifer Chevalier'sNovember 2018featureNo More Secretsreceived the Canadian Association of Journalists award for best open broadcast feature at a gala Saturday night in Winnipeg.

In theirpiece, former Bell High School students who were abused by threeteachers Bob Clarke, Don Greenham and Tim Stanutz came forward and shared their stories for the first time.

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In 2016,all three men were charged within weeks of each other with crimes including sexual assault, indecent assault and gross indecency.

Clarke pleaded guilty to gross indecency and sexual assault of eight former students in 2018, and two additional students earlier this year.

Greenham faced more than 50 charges but died in 2018 before the case went to trial. Stanutz was charged in 2016 but died in a fiery car crash before his court case began.