Catholic Priest Pleads Guilty To Raping Seven Children

January 23, 2025 Canada, Religion

The Canadian Press reports:

A Catholic priest’s sex assaults on Inuit children decades ago in Igloolik, Nvt., transformed a once friendly and trusting hamlet into a place marred by anger and addiction, court heard Thursday. Wails and shouts could be heard in the Iqaluit courtroom where Eric Dejaeger pleaded guilty to indecent assaults against six girls and one boy between 1978 and 1982. He’d previously been convicted of dozens of offences against children and some adults.

Prosecutor Emma Baasch described each of the assaults in graphic detail in the Nunavut Court of Justice. Baasch spoke of horrific sex acts. Children were as young as four when the abuse began, she said. One complainant described blacking out from the pain. In some cases, it began with the priest offering the children candy. Court heard Dejaeger gave a picture to a girl to colour before taking her on his lap and assaulting her. It was of Jesus giving someone a flower.

Read the full article. One of the victims told the court that at age six she would urinate on herself in the hope of fending off the priest’s advances. He was released from prison in 2022 on his previous convictions.



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