-CP-A former Catholic priest who pleaded guilty to indecent assault against seven Inuit children more than four decades ago has been sentenced to six years in prison. An Iqaluit court heard Eric Dejaeger assaulted six girls and one boy between 1978 and 1982 in the hamlet of Igloolik, Nvt. “He destroyed their childhood, hurt their relations with their families and ruined their relationship with their church,” Justice Faiyaz Alibhai said in his sentencing decision Thursday. “The trauma reverberated to the next generation, as the children of his victims also suffered from the consequences of his actions.” Court heard harrowing accounts last week from five abuse survivors, who were between the ages of four and nine when the assaults took place. The judge paused frequently to allow an interpreter to repeat…
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