CANADA
Nunatsiaq Online
DAVID MURPHY
Day three of the Eric Dejaeger trial at the Nunavut Court of Justice in Iqaluit heard from a witness who said she had been raped and drugged by the priest with a “little green pill” at the St. Stephen’s Catholic Church in Igloolik decades ago.
The woman, who cannot be identified, told court she was about eight when the sexual assaults took place.
Even before answering Crown prosecutor Doug Curliss’s questions, the witness started wincing at having to recall specific incidents in the church.
The first memory she described took place in the church’s bedroom upstairs on a bunk bed.
“At first he asked me to get undressed. I was scared of him. He told me not to tell anybody,” the witness said.
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