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Sentenced to three years for the sexual abuse of boys at a Saskatchewan residential school more than 50 years ago, convicted pedophile Paul Leroux has been granted full parole after serving just one year, CBC News reports.
The victims were all students at Beauval Indian Residential School in Saskatchewan during the 1970s, according to CBC News. Among other factors, the judge took into account Leroux’s age, which was 73 at the time, and gave him concurrent, rather than consecutive, sentences, radio station CKOM reported after the 2013 sentencing. Leroux’s victims did not buy it.
“I think it was a farce, given the number of offenses,” said one of the victims to CBC News after his December 2013 sentencing. “And I don’t think age should have ever been a factor in his sentencing, because he sure didn’t consider the age of the people he molested.”
Leroux, who worked as a dormitory supervisor at the Beauval school—which was in operation from 1895 through 1983, and was run by the Catholic Church—had served 10 years for similar abuse at Grollier Hall in Inuvik, Northwest Territories, CBC News said.
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