IQALUIT, Nunavut – A northern priest has pleaded guilty to some of the dozens of sex-related charges he faces involving Inuit children
Eric Dejaeger has admitted in a Nunavut courtroom to indecent assault in eight cases against him.
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Dejaeger was supposed to be tried in 1995 for accusations stemming from when he was an Oblate priest in the tiny Arctic hamlet of Igloolik, but he left for his Belgian homeland.
He was sent back by that country in 2011 after it was discovered he was living there illegally.
No agreed statement of facts has yet been entered on the charges he pleaded guilty to.
The trial in Iqaluit is now continuing with testimony from complainants.
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