CANADA
CBC News
By Nick Murray, CBC News
Convicted sex offender and former priest Eric Dejaeger will plead guilty to three Alberta-based charges that date to the mid-1970s.
Dejaeger is charged with two sexual offences and failure to appear in court. The offences were allegedly committed in the period between 1975 and 1978 when he was studying at the Newman Theological College in Edmonton.
Dejaeger had applied to have his Alberta charges heard in Nunavut. He’s in the process of having those charges “waived” from Alberta to Nunavut, which means he’s agreed to plead guilty to them and will be sentenced in Nunavut.
The Alberta Crown prosecutor’s office said Dejaeger had signed the waiver shortly after being convicted last year in Iqaluit of sex-related charges involving Inuit children when he was serving as a priest in Igloolik between 1978 and 1982.
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