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The sex abuse trial of now-defrocked Oblate priest Eric Dejaeger continues tomorrow (Monday, 17 March 2014),. While Dejaeger is no longer a Roman Catholic priest he is still an Oblate.
You may recall that the Dejaeger sex abuse trial was adjourned 23 January of this year to allow the Crown time to prepare a legal case to allow the introduction of Dejaeger’s criminal record as evidence.
Prior to the adjournment Dejaeger had been testifying in his own defence. He has entered guilty pleas to to eight of the approximately 80 charges against him. A handful of charges were dismissed – Dejaeger, who has been twice convicted in the past, denies all of the multitude of other charges against him.
According to Nunatsiaq Online, at the time the trial was adjourned Justice Kilpatrick, the presiding judge, said that, starting 17 March 2014, the trial will take a week to wrap up “to tie up loose ends.” “It will be over that week,” Kilpatrick warned the lawyers. “All evidence must be in.”
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