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May 15, 2018
By Mike Armstrong
Global National Quebec Correspondent Global News
A convicted pedophile priest has left behind a confession meant to help his victims sue the church.
Paul-Andre Harvey died of natural causes May 3 at a minimum security prison in Laval, Que. He was serving a six-year sentence for the sexual abuse of 39 girls.
Over the last several months, Harvey wrote a series of documents in French, explaining his crimes and laying out how he got away with them for decades.
Harvey blames police for not stopping him, and his superiors for not getting him help.
Harvey writes that when he was confronted by the bishop at the time, there were no consequences. “He told me to be more careful around children in the future and to pray more.”
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