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Eric Dejaeger and Nunavut

Nunavut: Nunavut A defrocked Arctic priest has been sentenced to 19 years in prison for dozens of sex offences against Inuit children, according to The Chronicle Herald. He was originally supposed to be tried on some of the charges in 1995, but fled to his native Belgium and lived in Oblate homes until he was returned to Canada for immigration violations and Eric Dejaeger deh-YAY -guhrz crimes took place 35 years ago in the remote Nunavut community of Igloolik when he was there as an Oblate missionary. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.