A courtroom swelled with weeping, cries and 35 years of bottled-up
grief Thursday as a defrocked priest who abused dozens of Inuit children
told a judge about to sentence him that he's sorry for his crimes and
won't commit any more.
"I can only take responsibility for what I have done," said Eric Dejaeger, 67, convicted on 32 counts of child sex abuse from his days as an Oblate missionary in Igloolik, Nunavut, between 1978 and 1982. Speaking quietly, in a voice heavily accented by his native Flemish, Dejaeger faced Justice Robert Kilpatrick in an Iqaluit courtroom and spoke for less than a minute.
http://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/defrocked-arctic-priest-says-he-s-sorry-for-sex-abuse-of-children-1.2200160
"I can only take responsibility for what I have done," said Eric Dejaeger, 67, convicted on 32 counts of child sex abuse from his days as an Oblate missionary in Igloolik, Nunavut, between 1978 and 1982. Speaking quietly, in a voice heavily accented by his native Flemish, Dejaeger faced Justice Robert Kilpatrick in an Iqaluit courtroom and spoke for less than a minute.
http://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/defrocked-arctic-priest-says-he-s-sorry-for-sex-abuse-of-children-1.2200160