CANADA
Nunatsiaq Online
JIM BELL
Convicted of using numerous Inuit children as his private sex toys between 1978 and 1982, ex-priest Eric Dejaeger, 67, must spend 11 more years in prison, Justice Robert Kilpatrick said in a 60-page written judgment issued Feb. 4.
“Your selfishness has devastated a generation of young Roman Catholic parishioners in Igloolik. Many lives have been irrevocably altered by your dark legacy,” Kilpatrick said in a direct address to Dejaeger.
The judge imposed a sentence of 19 years, minus eight years, calculated on a two-for-one basis from the four-year period during which Dejaeger was detained in custody following his arrest in January 2011.
Kilpatrick, following a lengthy trial that held 2013 and 2014, convicted Dejaeger this past September on 24 of 68 charges he stood trial on.
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