CANADA
Nunatsiaq Online
BY DAVID MURPHY)
Father Eric Dejaeger might not be sitting in an Iqaluit courtroom this week if it hadn’t been for the work of Godelieve Halsberghe.
She’s the person who discovered Dejaeger had been living and working in Belgium for 15 years in spite of outstanding arrest warrants against him issued in Nunavut and by Interpol.
This ultimately led to the priest’s return to Canada to face numerous sex charges, most of them flowing from his stay in Igloolik in the later 1970s and early 1980s.
That was in 2010. Now her niece, Lieve Halsberghe, is visiting Iqaluit to see her aunt’s work completed.
“She gave me this file and I took it on and I have to finish,” Halsberghe said in an interview with Nunatsiaq News.
She’s travelled more than 7,500 kilometers to get from Beligum to Iqaluit to attend Dejaeger’s trial, which began Nov. 18.
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