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Nunatsiaq Online
THOMAS ROHNER
Notorious Nunavut pedophile Eric Dejaeger may have to find money in his own bank account to appeal some of the dozens of sex crimes against Inuit children of which he has been convicted.
His application for legal aid in Nunavut has been turned down.
That’s what Justice Neil Sharkey heard at the Nunavut Court of Appeal in Iqaluit July 13.
“You’re funding application at this time has been denied,” Lana Walker, a defence lawyer with the Baffin region’s legal aid office said in court.
“You have the right to appeal directly to the [Legal Services] Board of Directors… within 30 days,” Walker told Dejaeger, who appeared via videoconference from an Ontario detention centre.
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