Paul Leroux - cropped from September 2011 CBC photo
Native of Granby Quebec. I am told Leroux is an ex-seminarian. He alleges he was sexually abused as a teen when he sang in the church choir. He was a former supervisor at residential schools in Northern Saskatchewan and Inuvik, NWT. 1979 convicted for sex abuse of boy in Inuvik. Convicted 1998 for sex abuse of a number of boys at Grollier Hall residential school in Inuvik. I am told that at that trial he was defiant – accusing the victims of forcing sexual contact. The trial was part of what is referred to as the Grollier Hall trials – tried and and convicted of sex abuse of boys in separate Grollier Hall trials were Jerzy George Maczynski, Jean Comeau, and Father Martin Houston.
September 2011: 13 charges of indecent assault laid in relation to allegations of sex abuse of boys age 3 to 18 at Beauval Indian Residential School between 1960 to 1967. Again Leroux is defiant, claiming these current 2011 charges are “copy-cat” charges. 03 May 2012: after conclusion of preliminary hearing has been ordered to stand trial.
Next court date: Trial date not yet set; 30 April 2012:, Preliminary hearing, 09:30 am, Meadow Lake court house (207 3rd Avenue East), Meadow Lake, Saskatchewan (ORDERED TO STAND TRIAL); 21 December 2011: 10 am, Beauval court house (Mary Magdelene RC Church in Beauval, Sask., serves as the courthouse); 19 October 2011, Beauval court house, Beauval, Saskatchewan
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Grollier Hall and “The Devil of Grollier Hall”
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04 May 2012: “Former Saskatchewan residential school supervisor going to trial” and other similar articles
10 October 2011: Beauval school worker always suspected boys abused
15 August 1998: Her Majesty the Queen v Paul Leroux: Reasons for Sentencing
August 1998: Leroux Admits Taking Pics of Boys
Articles from the ’90s re Paul Leroux
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The following information is drawn from media (M)
03 May 2012: ordered to stand trial (M)
30 April 2012 – 03 May 2012: Preliminary hearing
September 2011: 13 charges of indecent assault related to allegations of sex abuse of children age 3 to 18 at Beauval Indian Residential School between 1960 to 1967 (M)
March 2008: RCMP investigation commenced (M)
2003: accessing adult pornographic websites. His parole forbade viewing or accessing child porn. The board amended his conditions to restrict him from looking at all pornography (M)
1998: CONVICTED on a number of counts of gross indecency and indecent assault which transpired while he was a supervisor at Grollier Hall in Inuvik. (According to reports, 17 charges were dismissed. He entered guilty pleas to nine counts of gross indecency and was also found guilty of three counts of indecent assault and one count of attempted buggery ) Sentenced to 10 years in jail and a 10-year-weapons prohibition (M)
June 1997: Charged: 32 charges of sex assault related to allegations of 15 male complainants. Charges related to his years at Grollier Hall (M)
25 April 1997: appeared in B.C. Provincial Court on charge os possession of child pornography. Outcome unknown (M)
02 April 1997: police searched his room in Vancouver and found “one of the largest seizures of (child pornography) ever made” in Vancouver. He was later charged with possession of child pornography (M)
1995: retired (M)
1994 (?): around 1994 began to work as a freelance investigator for the Canadian Human Rights Commission and the BC Human Rights Council
1990: allegedly obtained a federal pardon for his 1979 conviction (M)
1988: Regional Director of Canadian Human Rights Commission in Vancouver, British Columbia (M)
1981: hired by Canadian Human Rights Commission in Vancouver, British Columbia (M)
1980: Hired by Employment and Immigration (M)
1979: CONVICTED of sexually abusing a boy in Inuvik, NWY (M) according to one media report, spent four months in jail
1967-1979: supervisor at Grollier Hall (M)
according to media reports, during his years in Inuvik Leroux served as a justice of the peace for 12 years, a judge in family juvenile court, president of the Inuvik Soccer Association, treasurer of the NWT Ski Team, a hockey and soccer coach and a Big Brother. (M)
1960-1967: dormitory supervisor at the Beauval Indian Residential School in Northern Saskatchewan (M)
Raised in Granby Quebec. Worked as a playground supervisor in Granby before moving to Saskatchewan to work as a supervisor at Beauval Indian Residential School in Northern Saskatchewan (M)
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Residential school employee responds to charges
Canada msn Saskatchewan
by CBC news
30 September 2011
A man charged with abusing boys at an Indian residential school where he worked in northern Saskatchewan has responded saying the allegations are outrageous.
Paul Leroux, a dormitory supervisor at the Beauval Indian Residential School from 1960 to 1967, wrote to the CBC Friday defending himself against allegations of abuse.
“The laying of these copy-cat charges, despite much contradictory evidence, is irresponsible and an outrage,” Leroux said.
The Prince Albert RCMP have charged Leroux with 13 counts of indecent assault.
The victims were male residents of the school between the ages of three to 18 at the time of the alleged offences and cannot be identified.
Police started their investigation three years ago.
Leroux, who currently lives in Vancouver, said he could not fully respond to the allegations for legal reasons.
Financially difficult to defend himself
“It is difficult to believe that, in this country, a person in his 70s is asked to ruin himself financially to defend so many false charges from half a century ago,” he said.
In his email he also responded to his 1998 conviction in Inuvik where he was convicted on nine counts of gross indecency and indecent assault while he was supervisor at Grollier Hall in Inuvik.
“In the aftermath of convictions in Inuvik in 1998, including many wrongful convictions, a good number of former students who had previously said they had never been abused changed their story and filed fraudulent lawsuits in the hope of getting out-of-court settlements that others had received,” Leroux said.
He said he has filed a complaint of perjury that was never fully investigated.
He is scheduled to make his first court appearance in provincial court in Beauval on Oct. 19.
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Residential school employee responds to charges
CBC News
Posted: Sep 30, 2011 5:58 PM CST
Last Updated: Sep 30, 2011 4:59 PM CST
A man charged with abusing boys at an Indian residential school where he worked in northern Saskatchewan has responded saying the allegations are outrageous.
Paul Leroux, a dormitory supervisor at the Beauval Indian Residential School from 1960 to 1967, wrote to the CBC Friday defending himself against allegations of abuse.
“The laying of these copy-cat charges, despite much contradictory evidence, is irresponsible and an outrage,” Leroux said.
The Prince Albert RCMP have charged Leroux with 13 counts of indecent assault.
The victims were male residents of the school between the ages of three to 18 at the time of the alleged offences and cannot be identified.
Police started their investigation three years ago.
Leroux, who currently lives in Vancouver, said he could not fully respond to the allegations for legal reasons.
Financially difficult to defend himself
“It is difficult to believe that, in this country, a person in his 70s is asked to ruin himself financially to defend so many false charges from half a century ago,” he said.
In his email he also responded to his 1998 conviction in Inuvik where he was convicted on nine counts of gross indecency and indecent assault while he was supervisor at Grollier Hall in Inuvik.
“In the aftermath of convictions in Inuvik in 1998, including many wrongful convictions, a good number of former students who had previously said they had never been abused changed their story and filed fraudulent lawsuits in the hope of getting out-of-court settlements that others had received,” Leroux said.
He said he has filed a complaint of perjury that was never fully investigated.
He is scheduled to make his first court appearance in provincial court in Beauval on Oct. 19.
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Accused pedophile in Sask. case has history of sexual abuse
Accused of indecent abuse at Beauval Indian Residential School
CJME News Talk 980
First Posted: Sep 30, 2011 7:45am
Reported by Brent Bosker
A Vancouver man at the centre of a residential school abuse case in Saskatchewan has a history of abusing boys elsewhere in Canada.
Paul Leroux, 70, was charged this week by the RCMP with 13 counts of indecent assault, involving boys attending the Beauval Indian Residential School in the 1960s. He was a dormitory supervisor at the school.
According to court documents from the Northwest Territories Department of Justice website, it’s not the first time Leroux has been accused of a similar crime.
He was convicted in 1998 of molesting boys at the Grollier Hall residential school in Inuvik. Those charges, involving 14 male victims, go back to the 1960s and 1970s, when Leroux was working as a school supervisor.
He pleaded guilty to nine counts of gross indecency. He was also found guilty of indecent assault, attempted buggery and sentenced to 10 years in prison.
Prior to those convictions, Leroux worked as a regional complaints investigator for the Canadian Human Rights Commission.
The latest abuse charges brought against Leroux were the result of a three-year investigation by Mounties that started in 2008.
The victims in the case were between the ages of three and 18, RCMP said.
Leroux, who lives in Vancouver, has been ordered to appear in court on Oct.19 in Beauval.
Beauval is approximately 310 kilometres northwest of Prince Albert.
Edited by News Talk Radio’s Karin Yeske.
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Former Indian residential school employee charged with abusing boys
CBC
28 September 2011
A man who worked at an Indian residential school in northern Saskatchewan is charged with abusing boys at that institution.
Paul Leroux was a dormitory supervisor at the Beauval Indian Residential School in the 1960s.
He’s accused of indecent assaults against 13 boys who attended the school at that time, the RCMP said
The victims were between three and 18 years old at the time.
Police started their investigation three years ago.
Leroux is now 70 years old and living in Vancouver. He’s scheduled to make his first court appearance next month in Beauval.
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Charges laid in residential school investigation
Prince Albert Daily Herald
28 September 2011
PRINCE ALBERT — A former employee of the Beauval Indian Residential School has been charged with indecent assault following a three-year investigation by the RCMP.
Paul Leroux, 70, of Vancouver, is charged with 13 counts of indecent assault dating back to the 1960s when he was a dormitory supervisor at the residential school, according to an RCMP release. The offences were alleged to have occurred from 1960 to 1967.
The victims will not be identified, but all were male residents of the school, ranging in age from three to 18 years old at the time the offences allegedly occurred.
The residential school operated in Beauval, Sask., about 270 kilometres north of Prince Albert.
The Prince Albert General Investigation Section (GIS) began the investigation into these incidents in March 2008.
Leroux will appear in Beauval Provincial Court on Oct. 19 at 10 a.m
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More Grollier Hall charges
Northern News Services
21 April 2003
Jennifer McPhee
Inuvik (Apr 21/03) – Police have charged three former supervisors at Grollier Hall residential school in Inuvik with 29 new sex-related offences.
The charges include indecent assault and gross indecency, according to Inuvik RCMP Sgt. Mark Wharton. Paul Leroux, 63, faces 11 counts. Martin Houstin, 66, faces 13 counts and Joseph Jean-Louis Comeau, 69, faces five counts.
Grollier Hall was a dormitory-style residence for boys aged six to 19 run by the Roman Catholic Church.
Five years ago, both Leroux and Comeau were convicted of sex offences against students.
In 1998, Joseph Jean-Louis Comeau was sentenced to two years in jail for two counts of indecent assault committed in 1962 and 1963.
Comeau also served 18 months for two other convictions for gross indecency. Leroux was convicted of 14 counts of sexual abuse committed during the 1960s and 1970s.
He was sentenced to 10 years in prison and was released on parole less than four years later. Leroux now lives inBritish Columbiaon full parole.
Earlier this year, his parole officer investigated allegations Leroux was sending threatening e-mails. The officer searched his computer and found no evidence of threats. However, Leroux’s parole was suspended after the officer discovered he was visiting pornographic Web sites.
On April 1, the National Parole Board decided not to send him back to jail. According to the board’s report, Leroux believed his parole conditions did not restrict him from accessing adult pornography.
Technically, he was right, the parole board decided. His conditions specifically forbade him from viewing or accessing child pornography.
However, the board amended his conditions, restricting him from looking at all pornography.
According to the board, “such material is, in fact, an indicator that your entrenched behaviour cycle is unmanageable and that this type of thinking error contributed to your indexed offences.”
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Leroux seeks reduced sentence
21 June 2000
Paul Leroux appeared in court this morning to appeal his conviction on 9 counts of gross indecency and indecent assault.
The incidents happened while Leroux was a supervisor at Grollier Hall inInuvik.
Leroux told the Court of Appeal he’s representing himself because he’s had trouble contacting his Legal Aid-appointed lawyer.
He’s filed documents with the court alleging his trial lawyer was incompetent.
He wants to withdraw four of the guilty pleas he entered while Jim Brydon was his lawyer.
Leroux also wants his 10 year sentence reduced.
Leroux’s next court date is 10 am, 21 December 2011 at Mary Magdalene Roman Catholic Church in Beauval, Sask. (Believe it or not, the Sask, Provincial circuit court sits in the RC in Beauval!)
I received the following email from Harold Cook a few days ago. It sounded as though it was a message he wanted to have posted. I asked Harold. He said yes. Here it is:
“I was the victims advocate for the Grollier Hall sexual abuse
investigation and follow up trials and ADR settlement process. I was
four years on the file….the most enduring part of the whole process
is when my friends were taking their lives over the shame of
this….this Demon Leroux was masturbating every night in the cells
when the victims were testifying…i confronted Comeau and Mazynski at
the Correctional Center…Iwas a guard well over 200 lbs, I challenged
them to abuse me now….Judge Vertes said that the courts is a very
poor place for healing but it confirmed what I had told the
authorities about being abused, they never believed me in 1963…my
healing included grieving and saying good bye to my childhood but I
have regained my soul….Leroux goes to court again and i gave 12
names from the Beauval indian Residential school to the RCMP….my
prayer and meditation are for them,,,support them”
Thank you Harold. Your efforts have not been in vain.
Right on, Harold!
Stand strong Harold
Paul Leroux’ preliminary hearing is scheduled to begin 30 April 2012 at 09:30 am in the courthouse at Meadow Lake, Saskatchewan. I was unable to find out how many days have been booked for the hearing.
* Good news. After a three-day preliminary hearing former dorm supervisor Paul Leroux has been ordered to stand trial. Trial date and location have not been set.