CANADA
Nunatsiaq Online
THOMAS ROHNER
Convicted of dozens of sex crimes against mostly Inuit children over a span of two decades, the former Roman Catholic priest, Eric Dejaeger, made a brief appearance at the Nunavut Court of Appeal in Iqaluit Nov. 10 to try to get at least some of those convictions overturned.
Dejaeger, appearing before Justice Robert Kilpatrick in baggy navy blue sweatpants and sweatshirt, with his head and beard recently trimmed, had filed a notice of appeal earlier this year, on March 26.
That notice lists six convictions that Dejaeger, now 69, is appealing, but contains so little detail that it’s not clear which incidents these convictions relate to.
But it remains likely that Dejaeger is appealing at least some of the 32 sex crimes against Igloolik children on which Kilpatrick convicted the former priest in September 2014.
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