CANADA
Toronto Star
By: Bob Weber The Canadian Press, Published on Mon Nov 18 2013
IQALUIT, NUNAVUT—A northern priest has pleaded guilty to some of the dozens of sex-related charges he faces involving Inuit children.
Eric Dejaeger has admitted in a Nunavut courtroom to indecent assault in eight cases against him.
Dejaeger was supposed to be tried in 1995 for accusations stemming from when he was an Oblate priest in the tiny Arctic hamlet of Igloolik, but he returned to his Belgian homeland.
He was sent back by Belgium in 2011 after it was discovered he was living there illegally.
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An agreed statement of facts has yet to be entered on the charges to which Dejaeger pleaded guilty.
The trial in Iqaluit is now continuing with testimony from complainants.
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