CANADA
Brandon Sun
By: Kent Driscoll, APTN, The Canadian Press
Thursday, Jan. 23, 2014
IQALUIT, Nunavut – Witnesses have finished their testimony in the trial of a former priest accused of sex assaults against dozens of Inuit children in a remote Arctic community.
The case of Eric Dejaeger is to wrap up the week of March 17, when lawyers are to argue final legal motions and make closing statements.
Dejaeger, who is 66, pleaded guilty to eight counts at the beginning of his trial in November.
He denied the remaining 68 sex assault charges against him when he took the stand in his own defence this week in an Iqaluit, Nunavut courtroom.
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