CANADA/FRANCE
Lethbridge Herald
By The Canadian Press on November 29, 2013.
A priest wanted on child sex-abuse charges in the North says he doesn’t know if he’ll return from France to face them.
Reached at his home in the Avignon region, Joannes (yoh-HAH’-ness) Rivoire (rih-VWAR’) seemed aware of a Canadian warrant for his arrest that was issued in 1998.
Three-sex-related charges against him date from his work in Rankin Inlet, Nunavut, between 1968 and 1970.
Rivoire says he’s not willing to discuss the warrant.
Asked if he would return to Canada, he said that he might, but added that he is old and sick.
He gave his age as “something like” 83.
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