The Edmonton Journal
IQALUIT, Nunavut – RCMP confirm they have an active arrest warrant on child sex abuse charges for a second Arctic priest who left Canada.
Police in Iqaluit, Nunavut, say Oblate priest Joannis Rivoire is wanted on three sex-related charges dating from his time in Rankin Inlet between 1968 and 1970.
“We have a valid arrest warrant,” Cpl. Yvonne Niego said Thursday. “If he returns to Canada, he will be arrested to face justice.”
Niego said the alleged offences are against children, including a 14-year-old.
Former Oblate priest Eric Dejaeger is currently on trial in Iqaluit on 69 charges of child sexual abuse alleged to have occurred between 1978 and 1982. Dejaeger was originally facing six of those counts in 1995 before he fled to his homeland of Belgium, where he lived for nearly 18 years before he was returned to Canada on immigration violations.
The number of charges against him ballooned after he left and grew after he was flown back to Iqaluit.
Oblate officials in Ottawa confirm Rivoire is alive and living in France. Since leaving Canada, according to Oblate news letters, Rivoire was for some time a treasurer for a well-appointed “retreat-centre-hotel” in France’s Avignon region for fellow members of his order.
Before he returned to the country of his birth, Rivoire had a long history in Canada’s Arctic.
He was posted to Igloolik — the same community where Dejaeger would later serve — from 1960 to 1964. From 1975 to 1993, he worked in several communities on the western shore of Hudson Bay, including Repulse Bay, Rankin Inlet and Arviat.
He is thought to have returned to France in 1993.
It wasn’t immediately clear whether Rivoire became a naturalized Canadian. Many Oblate missionaries, such as Dejaeger, did.
Niego said the arrest warrant is dated December 1998.
“We’re doing whatever we can to bring him to justice.”
Justice Canada officials were not immediately available to say if any attempts have been made to bring Rivoire back.
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Nunavut RCMP confirm arrest warrant for priest
CBC News North
CBC News Posted: Nov 28, 2013 2:00 PM CT Last Updated: Nov 28, 2013 2:00 PM CT
Nunavut RCMP have confirmed that there’s a longstanding Canada-wide warrant for the arrest of a priest wanted in relation to sex crimes allegedly committed in the eastern Arctic between 1968 and 1970
Father Johannes Rivoire is currently living in France. The warrant was issued in 1998. The priest is now in his 80s.
RCMP say if he returns to Canada he will be arrested and brought before the courts.
Rivoire faces three charges: one for indecent assault involving three complainants in Repulse Bay, and two counts of sexual intercourse involving females under 14 years of age in Rankin Inlet and Repulse Bay.
According to Sylvia MacEachern, an advocate for victims of sexual abuse in Ottawa, Rivoire appears to have arrived in the North in the early 1960s. He served in Repulse Bay, Igloolik and Chesterfield Inlet and would sometimes fill in for priests in other communities, including Eric Dejaeger in Igloolik.
Dejaeger is currently on trial in Iqaluit for dozens of sex-related charges in that community.
Rivoire is not on Interpol’s most wanted list.
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RCMP confirm child sex abuse warrant for second Arctic priest
The Calgary Herald
IQALUIT, Nunavut – RCMP confirm they have an active arrest warrant on child sex abuse charges for a second Arctic priest who left Canada.
Police in Iqaluit, Nunavut, say Oblate priest Joannis Rivoire is wanted on three sex-related charges dating from his time in Rankin Inlet between 1968 and 1970.
“We have a valid arrest warrant,” Cpl. Yvonne Niego said Thursday. “If he returns to Canada, he will be arrested to face justice.”
Niego said the alleged offences are against children, including a 14-year-old.
Former Oblate priest Eric Dejaeger is currently on trial in Iqaluit on 69 charges of child sexual abuse alleged to have occurred between 1978 and 1982. Dejaeger was originally facing six of those counts in 1995 before he fled to his homeland of Belgium, where he lived for nearly 18 years before he was returned to Canada on immigration violations.
The number of charges against him ballooned after he left and grew after he was flown back to Iqaluit.
Oblate officials in Ottawa confirm Rivoire is alive and living in France. Since leaving Canada, according to Oblate news letters, Rivoire was for some time a treasurer for a well-appointed “retreat-centre-hotel” in France’s Avignon region for fellow members of his order.
Before he returned to the country of his birth, Rivoire had a long history in Canada’s Arctic.
He was posted to Igloolik — the same community where Dejaeger would later serve — from 1960 to 1964. From 1975 to 1993, he worked in several communities on the western shore of Hudson Bay, including Repulse Bay, Rankin Inlet and Arviat.
He is thought to have returned to France in 1993.
It wasn’t immediately clear whether Rivoire became a naturalized Canadian. Many Oblate missionaries, such as Dejaeger, did.
Niego said the arrest warrant is dated December 1998.
“We’re doing whatever we can to bring him to justice.”
Justice Canada officials were not immediately available to say if any attempts have been made to bring Rivoire back.
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RCMP confirm child sex abuse warrant for second Arctic priest
The Montreal Gazette
By The Canadian Press
IQALUIT, Nunavut – RCMP confirm they have an active arrest warrant on child sex abuse charges for a second Arctic priest who left Canada.
Police in Iqaluit, Nunavut, say Oblate priest Joannis Rivoire is wanted on three sex-related charges dating from his time in Rankin Inlet between 1968 and 1970.
“We have a valid arrest warrant,” Cpl. Yvonne Niego said Thursday. “If he returns to Canada, he will be arrested to face justice.”
Niego said the alleged offences are against children, including a 14-year-old.
Former Oblate priest Eric Dejaeger is currently on trial in Iqaluit on 69 charges of child sexual abuse alleged to have occurred between 1978 and 1982. Dejaeger was originally facing six of those counts in 1995 before he fled to his homeland of Belgium, where he lived for nearly 18 years before he was returned to Canada on immigration violations.
The number of charges against him ballooned after he left and grew after he was flown back to Iqaluit.
Oblate officials in Ottawa confirm Rivoire is alive and living in France. Since leaving Canada, according to Oblate news letters, Rivoire was for some time a treasurer for a well-appointed “retreat-centre-hotel” in France’s Avignon region for fellow members of his order.
Before he returned to the country of his birth, Rivoire had a long history in Canada’s Arctic.
He was posted to Igloolik — the same community where Dejaeger would later serve — from 1960 to 1964. From 1975 to 1993, he worked in several communities on the western shore of Hudson Bay, including Repulse Bay, Rankin Inlet and Arviat.
He is thought to have returned to France in 1993.
It wasn’t immediately clear whether Rivoire became a naturalized Canadian. Many Oblate missionaries, such as Dejaeger, did.
Niego said the arrest warrant is dated December 1998.
“We’re doing whatever we can to bring him to justice.”
Justice Canada officials were not immediately available to say if any attempts have been made to bring Rivoire back.
Another Oblate fugitive from justice!
There’s been a warrant out for Father Joannes Rivoire’s arrest since 1998!
What the heck is going on?
And if indeed that’s the case, why was Marius told by the Justice department in 2000 that since Fr Rivoire was living in Belgium and because they was no extradition treaties with Belgium, they were going to
drop the case against him. ?
Was Rivoire in fact in Belgium initially? That’s possible, isn’t it? Perhaps the same Oblates who so graciously provided safe haven for Father Dejeager in 1995 extended a helping hand to Rivoire?
The Oblate directory have him returning to France in 1993, but, who knows, he may have gone via Belgium? The 1993 departure ties in to recollections of somee that charge were laid in 1993.
Anyway, yet another predator on the loose with a Canada-wide warrant out for his arrest.
And yet again the Oblates couldn’t pack him up and send him back?
One for sure now is that, thanks to the internet, they can still run, but they can’t hide
This man replaced dejaeger..they replaced one abuser with another abuser who thereafter was hidden from justice disgusting at a systemic level.
Sylvia, Rivoire was never in Belgium. Maybe they told Marius that for another reason.
Marius was so sure that not only was Rivoire in Belgium but was also therefore Belgian that there is no doubt that, for whatever reason, he was told that Father Rivoire was in Belgium.
My thought is that it is possible Riovire flew to Belgium to visit friends, and from Belgium travelled home to France. Father Vandevelde, a former Oblate colleague from the North, retired to Belgium in 1986 and by ’93 would have been 84. I can think in terms of Rivoire taking the opportunity to visit with Vandevelde and/or other friends and colleagues.
If Rivoire did not initially fly to Belgium in 1993 then , for whatever reason, someone lied to Marius.