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24 December 2016

A story of a priest accused of abuse, friendship and a long search for justice

Piita Irniq holds a photograph in Ottawa on Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2016, taken in 1984 of himself and Marius Tungilik while seal hunting 25 miles outside Rankin Inlet. Irniq has been trying to get justice for his friend Tungilik for years, after he was abused by a priest in a residential school and later committed suicide.
Piita Irniq, one of a generation of Inuit leaders who took his people from igloos to iPhones, has seen and accomplished much, but one loose end haunts him.

http://www.metronews.ca/news/canada/2016/12/22/a-story-of-a-priest-accused-of-abuse-friendship-and-a-long-search-for-justice.html