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Summary of Case: An Inupiat Eskimo, Ignatius J. Jakes entered the Jesuit Novitiate in Sheridan, OR as a coadjutator postulate Sept. 4, 1943, making his perpetual vows in March 1946. He spent his career as a manual laborer for the Jesuits in Spokane WA, Holy Cross, St. Mary’s and Fairbanks, AK and numerous Alaskan missions. He died in 1999 in a Jesuit infirmary at Gonzaga University in Spokane. Jakes was accused in a 2006 lawsuit of sexually abusing three young girls in Holy Cross, AK in the 1980s. The girls were said to have been between the ages of 5 and 7-years-old when abused. Jakes’ name was included on a list in the Fairbanks’ diocese’s 2010 bankruptcy documents of ‘Individuals against whom a complaint of abuse has been asserted by more than one person’.
Perpetual Vows: March 12, 1946
Died: Aug. 23, 1999
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