CANADA
Montreal Gazette
BY THE CANADIAN PRESS
NOVEMBER 17, 2013
IQALUIT, Nunavut – A timeline of events in the case against former priest Eric Dejaeger, who faces a trial on 76 historical sex charges in Nunavut:
June 28, 1973: Dejaeger, 26, leaves Belgium for Canada to study for the Catholic priesthood with the Oblate order. He visits several Arctic missions and stays briefly in Pelly Bay, N.W.T. (now Kugaaruk, Nunavut).
May 1974: Leaves Pelly Bay for Edmonton.
1977: Takes out Canadian citizenship and is consecrated as a deacon in Repulse Bay, Nunavut.
1978: Ordained as a priest after studies at Edmonton’s Newman Theological College. Posted to Igloolik, Nunavut.
1982: Posted to Baker Lake, Nunavut.
April 1989: Asked by Oblates to leave Baker Lake.
Aug. 21, 1989: Arrested in Langley, B.C., where he is studying Inuktitut.
Dec. 19, 1989: Pleads guilty to eight counts of sexual assault and one charge of indecent assault in Baker Lake. Sentenced to five years.
June 14, 1991: Pleads guilty to two additional counts of sexual assault in Baker Lake after being charged with five. Sentences to be served concurrently.
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