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The Canadian Press
IQALUIT, Nunavut – A Crown prosecutor is trying to discredit the testimony of a former priest who denies sexually abusing dozens of Inuit children while posted in a remote Arctic community.
Eric Dejaeger took the witness stand for a second day Wednesday in a courtroom in Iqaluit, Nunavut.
He has pleaded guilty to eight counts, but denies the remaining 68 sex assaults he’s accused of committing between 1978 and 1982 when he was an Oblate missionary in Igloolik.
The Crown repeatedly questioned Dejaeger’s testimony that he never once listened to confessions in the remote hamlet because he didn’t speak the Inuktitut language well enough.
Some of the alleged victims have testified the abuse took place during confession.
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