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Nunatsiaq Online
JIM BELL
The pedophile ex-priest Eric Dejaeger “did not know God,” an Igloolik sexual abuse victim declared Jan. 20 in a victim impact statement that quoted from St. Paul the Apostle’s instructions on how to live a good life.
Dejaeger, who appears before the Nunavut Court of Justice in Iqaluit this week for a sentencing hearing, is guilty on 32 counts, most of them sex crimes against Inuit girls and boys committed between 1976 and 1982 in Igloolik.
The woman, who Dejaeger molested at the Roman Catholic mission in Igloolik when she was aged between five and seven, gave the first of six victim impact statements read in court on the afternoon of Jan. 20.
She quoted verses from St. Paul’s first epistle to the Thessalonians that suggest Dejeager will face the vengeance of God in the afterlife.
“That no man go beyond and defraud his brother in any matter: because that the Lord is the avenger of all such, as we also have forewarned you and testified,” the woman said
“For God hath not called us unto uncleanness, but unto holiness.”
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