CANADA
The StarPhoenix
BY HANNAH SPRAY, THE STARPHOENIX DECEMBER 6, 2013
Paul Leroux remains unrepentant for molesting eight boys he was supposed to be caring for and protecting, and that makes it very hard to forgive him, says one of his victims.
“He has lived in denial.
Forgiveness for me is something that has to be reciprocal. And if he’s not willing to do that, I cannot give him that, because he still denies what he’s done, so I cannot in any way give him that,” the 59-year-old man said outside Battleford Court of Queen’s Bench on Thursday. His name cannot be published due a publication ban on the victims’ identities.
Leroux, 73, was convicted last month of the string of crimes at the Beauval Indian Residential School in the 1960s, but on Thursday during sentencing arguments he still maintained his innocence, saying he intended to appeal.
Nevertheless, he said the sentence for fondling and raping the teenage boys should be three years, noting he already received a 10-year sentence in 1998 for similar crimes in Inuvik in the late 1960s and 1970s.
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