CANADA
CBC News
Disgraced former priest Eric Dejaeger has pleaded guilty in an Iqaluit courtroom to eight of 76 sex-related charges involving Inuit children.
The eight charges Dejaeger, 66, entered pleas on are all for indecent assault against male victims.
The trial will go ahead on the 68 other charges. With dozens of witnesses, it’s expected to last about six weeks.
Dejaeger looked solemn in the courtroom Monday morning and said nothing.
One of about 40 complainants in the case took the stand. The now 40-year-old woman is from Igloolik, and was between five and nine years old when she alleges Dejaeger sexually abused her.
She described a time when she said “Father Eric,” as he was known, fondled her. Another time, she alleges he had intercourse with her in his bedroom.
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