Sex Charges: Eric Dejaeger

Eric Dejaeger: IQALUIT, Nunavut - A former priest who this week is to face 76 sex charges involving Inuit children may have been tried years ago but for a quiet nod from Canada that allowed him to leave the country, says a church leader. , according to Winnipeg Free Press. Vervust sheds light on questions that have troubled Dejaeger's alleged victims for nearly a decade: How was a man facing child abuse charges allowed to leave the country days before his trial? And why did it take so long for him to be returned? Eric Dejaeger is shown in an undated Interpol photo. Dejaeger, a former priest who this week is to face 76 sex charges involving Inuit children, may have been tried years ago but for a quiet nod from Canada that allowed him to leave the country, says a church leader.THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-Interpol Georges Vervust is the top official with the Belgian Oblates, an order of Catholic priests that sent Eric Dejaeger to several communities in what is now Nunavut. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.