CANADA
Ottawa Citizen
BY THE CANADIAN PRESS NOVEMBER 20, 2013
IQALUIT, Nunavut – A witness at the trial of a priest accused of child abuse in the North says the cleric used hunger to force children into sex.
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“When I was a child, sometimes we had nothing to eat,” the witness said Wednesday at the trial of Eric Dejaeger. “Mama (her grandmother) would have to leave me there (at the church) so I could eat.”
The witness, who was about eight years old in 1980 when the alleged assault took place in Igloolik, Nunavut, broke down in tears and sighed heavily to compose herself before she could continue her testimony.
She said one night, after Dejaeger fed her, he took her into his bedroom and told her to get undressed.
“I was scared of him,” said the witness, who recalled that the priest was wearing his long black church robe. “He told me not to tell anybody and then he said he was going to do something to me.”
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