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The Dejeager hearing is delayed till this afternoon.

I could see no sign that the Eric Dejaeger sentencing hearing had resumed this morning so called just called the Iqaluit courthouse to find out what’s happening. (09:56 am, Tuesday, 20 January)

The sentencing hearing for Eric Dejaeger which began yesterday morning will resume at 1:30 pm this afternoon.

Bad weather has a huge impact on court proceedings in Iqaluit.  The hearing was cancelled yesterday afternoon because the flight from Igloolik which was to bring the victims to Iqaluit for the afternoon session was cancelled because of weather.

It seems the flight didn’t make it this morning, but expectations are that the hearing will proceed again this afternoon.

Two more articles have been posted:

20 January 2015:  Eric Dejaeger sentencing: former priest’s hearing continues

19 January 2015:  Sex-abuse victim tells priest’s sentencing hearing wood smell triggers memories

Yesterday I made mention of the failure to prosecute the failure to appear charge.  Note the following quote from the second article:

Dejaeger has already served one five-year sentence on 11 counts of assaulting children in Baker Lake, Nunavut, where he was posted after Igloolik.

It was in 1995, after he had served that sentence, that he learned RCMP were about to charge him for his activities in Igloolik. Before his court date arrived, he fled to his native Belgium.

Oblate officials have acknowledged that they knew Dejaeger was about to depart. They have also said that Canadian justice officials suggested that the easiest thing was for him to simply leave Canada, where he had become a citizen. They have said Dejaeger was told he wouldn’t be bothered if he stayed away.

We know to some degree the of Oblate involvement. Had the failure to appear charge been prosecuted in Iqaluit we would probably have learned the full extent of Oblate involvement, and I believe we would also have learned which Canadian justice officials aided and abetted Dejaeger’s escape, and how.   I can not for the life of me understand why this charge disappeared from the radar screen.

Enough for now,

Sylvia

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