Former Canadian Catholic priest sentenced to 6 years in prison for child sex abuse
A former Roman Catholic priest was sentenced Thursday to six years in prison for sexually abusing seven children more than 40 years ago. Eric Dejaeger abused six girls and one boy, ages 4 through 9, in the small hamlet of Igloolik, Nunavut, with a population of 2,000, in Canada’s Far North. The assaults took place between 1978 and 1982.