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By Sarah Bridge, John Lancaster, CBC News

Posted: Feb 17, 2015

An Ontario woman says she had been assured that a countrywide arrest warrant would prevent a Nigerian priest charged with sexually assaulting her from ever returning to Canada.

Nearly a decade later, she found evidence that Rev. Anthony Onyenagada had been allowed back into the country.

“It bothers me to hear so much attention being spent on people not coming into Canada,” she told CBC News in an interview, “[but] they didn’t catch the priest who raped me. And there were charges for him.”

Onyenagada, a Roman Catholic priest from Nigeria, visited the woman’s southwestern Ontario church in 2004.

The woman, whose identity CBC News has agreed to protect, was an administrative employee at the parish. She says he confined and sexually assaulted her there, shattering her relationship with a church she once loved.

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