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The Belgian wing of an international network that represents survivors of sexual abuse by Roman Catholic priests and other religious authority figures said Sept. 11 that the Oblate order ought to pay for Father Eric Dejaeger’s health care costs.
Dejaeger, 65, faces 77 criminal charges, most of them related to the sexual abuse of children in Igloolik between 1978 and 1982, when Dejaeger served there as a priest.
At a court appearance Sept. 10, his lawyer, Malcolm Kempt, complained that because Dejaeger is not a Nunavut resident, the Government of Nunavut is denying medical care to his client, who suffers from high blood pressure and a heart condition.
At the same time, Dejaeger’s arraignment on the 77 charges, which has been postponed several times, was postponed again until Oct. 1.
But Lieve Halsberghe of the Belgian wing of SNAP, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, said the Oblates of Mary Immaculate, the missionary order to which Dejaeger belongs, must pay Dejaeger’s medical costs.
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