CANADA
CBC News
Paul Leroux, a former dormitory supervisor who has been convicted of sexually abusing boys at a residential school decades ago, has been given a three-year sentence by a judge in Battleford, Sask.
Leroux shook his head as the sentence was handed down on Thursday. Some of his victims who were in court said they were upset with the prison term and that it was not enough considering their years of suffering.
“I feel so totally inadequate,” one of the victims said outside of court. The man cannot be identified because of a publication ban. “I feel like my life is worthless for what the judge had given him. Three years. With good behaviour, he’ll be out in seven months. He’ll be out of there by next summer while we have to live with what he has done to us.”
In his remarks on the sentence, the judge said he recognized the victims have suffered and that any sentence he imposed would not relieve that suffering or seem adequate.
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