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Iqaluit Eric Dejaeger: 5 jaar cel dit keer

Eric Dejaeger,  Oblaat, een voormalige katholieke priester van Belgische afkomst, is vorige week donderdag in Iqaluit tot vijf jaar cel veroordeeld voor feiten van kindermisbruik. Dat melden de Canadese media. De ‘eskimopater’ zal evenwel geen extra celstraf moeten uitzitten.

De 69-jarige Dejaeger stond in Iqaluit, in het noordoosten van Canada, terecht voor feiten die tussen 1975 en 1978 plaatsvonden in het Newman Theological College in Edmonton, waar hij toen studeerde. De slachtoffers waren toen tussen de zes en negen jaar. Het ging in totaal om vier aanklachten: twee aanklachten voor grove obsceniteiten en de aanranding van een jongen en een meisje. Dejaeger had in september al schuldig gepleit.

In februari was Dejaeger al eens veroordeeld tot negentien jaar cel voor 32 seksuele misdrijven, gaande van verkrachting tot blootstelling aan bestialiteiten, op Inuït-kinderen in de arctische gemeenschap in Igloolik tussen 1978 en 1982.

De rechter oordeelde donderdag wel dat Dejaeger de beide celstraffen gelijktijdig kan uitzitten. Dat betekent concreet dat hij geen bijkomende tijd achter de tralies zal moeten doorbrengen.

Volgens CBC heeft Dejaeger een aanvraag tot beroep ingediend, maar het is niet duidelijk welk deel van het vonnis hij aanvecht.

volgende veroordeling ex Oblaat Eric Dejaeger

Readers are cautionened  that this article  contains  very offensive  and disturbing  activity 

Recent information told it makes God weep so accept to be human in case of nausea and urge to puke 

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Nunavut September 30,
THOMAS ROHNER



Defrocked and disgraced, ex-priest and convicted pedophile Eric Dejaeger pleaded guilty to four more charges involving sex crimes against children Sept. 29 during an appearance before Justice Sue Cooper at the Nunavut Court of Justice in Iqaluit.

The four charges relate to incidents involving three children in the Edmonton area, between 1974 and 1978, when Dejaeger attended the Newman Theological College at the University of Alberta.

Earlier this year, Justice Robert Kilpatrick convicted Dejaeger on 32 charges, most of which were sex crimes against Inuit children, committed while Dejaeger served as the Catholic parish priest in Igloolik from 1976 to 1982.

For those charges, Kilpatrick sentenced the ex-priest, who has been in custody since January 2011, to eleven years in prison.

And in 1990, Dejaeger received a five-year federal prison sentence after being convicted of nine counts of sex crimes committed in Baker Lake in the 1980s.

Crown prosecutor Barry McLaren pointed out in court Sept. 29 that the courts have dealt with Dejaeger’s known sex crimes in reverse chronological order.

The Belgian-born man was first convicted on the most recent known crimes in Baker Lake first, then on his crimes in Igloolik, which happened earlier, and finally, now, on his earliest known sex crimes against children, in Alberta.

“Had people known 30 plus years ago… about his activities, perhaps the following events in Baker Lake and in Igloolik might never have happened,” McLaren told Cooper.

Standing and facing the judge in a baggy navy blue sweatshirt, Dejaeger quietly answered “guilty,” each time Cooper asked him how he pleaded to the four charges stemming from Alberta in the 1970s.

In a joint sentencing recommendation made to the judge, McLaren and defence lawyer Malcolm Kempt recommended Dejaeger receive a sentence of four to five years in a federal penitentiary for each of the three Alberta complaints.

The joint submission recommended a federal prison sentence, to be served concurrently to each other and to the 11-year sentence Dejaeger is already serving, to show the gravity of the offences, McLaren said.

“Mr. Dejaeger has damaged his victims, he has incredibly damaged the two Nunavut communities, and he has left lasting effects on the complainants in this case.”

The complainants came forward upon hearing media reports of Dejaeger’s return to Canada in 2011 after hiding 18 years in Belgium, the prosecutor said.

Reading an agreed statement of facts to Cooper, McLaren revealed the sexual misconduct Dejaeger committed in Alberta in the 1970s, including:

• about 10 incidents of sexually fondling a young Aboriginal altar boy, and one attempt at anal penetration;

• repeated incidents of fondling a six-year old girl, including digital penetration on numerous occasions; and,

• incidents of oral sex with that girl’s older brother, and another incident of attempted anal penetration.

Dejaeger told each of the three complainants not to tell anyone of their “secret,” McLaren said, going so far as to tell the little girl she would go to hell if she did because “this is a secret between him, her and God.”

“The abuse only ended when the accused left the country in 1978,” McLaren said.

In each of the three cases, Dejaeger built a trusting relationship with the complainants’ families over time, the prosecutor said, gaining enough trust from the parents to be the children’s babysitter at times.

Some of the crimes were committed on a religious retreat outside of Edmonton that Dejaeger took the kids to, with the parents’ consent.

Defence lawyer Kempt told Cooper his client will turn 69 in the spring, and currently suffers from a number of serious health issues, including cancer and heart problems.

A mitigating factor in sentencing the judge should consider, Kempt said, is that Dejaeger pleaded guilty to the charges as soon as was possible.

“He didn’t want these [complainants] to have to testify at trial… he doesn’t want to see anyone else suffer through that process,” Kempt said.

Cooper said she will deliver her sentencing decision on Oct. 22, at 1:30 p.m.

Kempt said once these charges have been resolved, Dejaeger will be sent to a facility outside of Nunavut, but Kempt didn’t know where.

Dejaeger requested that the charges filed by these three complainants be tried in the Nunavut Court of Justice, and the public prosecution office in Alberta agreed to transfer the charges to Nunavut.

After his 45-minute appearance, Dejaeger, fidgeting with the cuffs of his oversized sweatshirt, left the courtroom.

ex-Belgische ex- ‘eskimo-pater’ ex-Oblaat in Canada veroordeeld tot 19 jaar cel

Eric Dejaeger, die bekend staat als de zogenaamde ‘eskimo-pater’ is in Canada veroordeeld tot 19 jaar cel voor seksuele misdrijven op kinderen. Met de voorhechtenis in achting genomen, zal de 67-jarige Belg nog 11 jaar in de cel verblijven.

Dejaeger, een voormalige katholieke priester van Belgische afkomst, stond terecht voor het seksueel misbruik van kinderen in het Canadese Igloolik, meer dan dertig jaar geleden. Hij werd in september schuldig bevonden aan 24 aanklachten van seksueel misbruik van minderjarigen. Bij de start van het proces pleitte Dejaeger al schuldig aan 8 aanklachten. Het proces duurde in totaal tien maanden.

De openbare aanklager in het Canadese Iqualuit had 25 jaar cel geëist. Volgens hem moet er niet gestreefd worden naar rehabilitatie maar naar vergelding en erkenning van de feiten. Hij vroeg aan de rechter om rekening te houden met de verzwarende omstandigheden. Zo waren de meeste slachtoffers jonger dan achttien jaar oud, ging het misbruik jarenlang door en hadden de feiten een zware impact op het leven van de slachtoffers.

De advocaat van Dejaeger, Malcolm Kempt, had op zijn beurt 12 jaar cel gevraagd. Hij voerde aan dat in het verleden in Canada zedendelinquenten met zwaardere feiten op hun kerfstok al lichtere straffen kregen dan 25 jaar opsluiting. Om zijn pleidooi kracht bij te zetten noemde hij enkele voorbeelden van zedenmisdrijven die door de daders werden gefilmd en waarbij wapens werden gebruikt, waarna hij concludeerde dat de misdaden van de Dejaeger minder monsterlijk waren. Bovendien, ging Kempt verder, heeft Dejaeger bijzonder veel schrik om tijdens zijn gevangenschap te overlijden.

‘Levens onherstelbaar verwoest’

‘Uw zelfzucht heeft een generatie jonge katholieke parochianen in Igloolik verwoest. Vele levens werden onherstelbaar veranderd door uw duister legaat', aldus de rechter (iii).
 'Voor veel slachtoffers betekende het plegen van uw delict het einde van leven en het begin van hun overleven.' De strafmaat kwam uiteindelijk op 19 jaar te staan. 'Deze gevangenisstraf is enkel het begin van de boetedoening’, aldus de rechter aan het slot tot de beklaagde. 

Dejaeger zit al 4 jaar in voorhechtenis en die periode mag dubbel van de straf worden afgetrokken, wat betekent dat hij nog 11 jaar effectief in de cel moet blijven.

B. Concluding Remarks 

(i).The Court`s remarks on the supports available at sentencing 

[330] Victim support during the trial and subsequent sentencing hearing has been provided by a number of organizations. 

[331] Mental Health Services, Government of Nunavut, made five counselors available at the Courthouse. Community Justice, Government of Nunavut provided two victim support coordinators. These victim support coordinators were instrumental in facilitating the involvement of the Ilisaqsivik Society [Society] from Clyde River, Nunavut. 

[332] This Society is a non-profit community-based Inuit organization that is dedicated to promoting community wellness. The Society sent four counselors to Iqaluit who provided support in both English and Inuktitut to victims and community members. The cost of sending three of the four counselors was borne by the Society. 

[333] This support was invaluable. It made the burden a little lighter for those attending court. 

[334] The Court thanks each and every organization for this assistance. A heart sent thank-you is extended to those involved for their time and effort in helping those affected. 

(ii).The Court`s address to the victims 

[335] This Court is powerless to undo the past. No sentence can ever compensate you for what has been taken. No sentence can ever compensate you for the pain and anguish that you have suffered. No sentence can ever return the quality of life that has been missing these past many years. For many of you, no sentence will ever be long enough, or hard enough. 

[336] Your anger must be put aside. Your trust in others must be restored. You must learn to rely on the good around you, in your family, in your neighbors, and in your community. Despite what has happened to you, there is still much good in people. It is all around you. You will find that by sharing your burden with others, the burden will eventually become easier to carry. 

[337] The time has now come for you to move on with your lives. 

[338] The Court wishes you well in the long healing journey that lies ahead. 

(iii). The Court`s address to the accused 

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[339] Your selfishness has devastated a generation of young Roman Catholic parishioners in Igloolik. Many lives have been irrevocably altered by your dark legacy. For many victims, the commission of your offence has marked the end of living and the beginning of their survival. 

[340] You must now atone for the many wrongs that you have inflicted on others. 

[341] This sentence is only the beginning of that atonement. 

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from Nunavut en terug Eric Dejaeger on trial for dozens of sexual abuse charges dating to the 1970s and 80s

Father Eric Dejaeger might not be sitting in an Iqaluit courtroom this week if it hadn’t been for the work of Godelieve Halsberghe.

She’s the person who discovered Dejaeger had been living and working in Belgium for 15 years in spite of outstanding arrest warrants against him issued in Nunavut and by Interpol.

This ultimately led to the priest’s return to Canada to face numerous sex charges, most of them flowing from his stay in Igloolik in the later 1970s and early 1980s.

That was in 2010. Now her niece, Lieve Halsberghe, is visiting Iqaluit to see her aunt’s work completed.

“She gave me this file and I took it on and I have to finish,” Halsberghe said in an interview with Nunatsiaq News. 
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But on top of her aunt’s work, Halsberghe hopes this case will have a ripple effect in Belgium.

Belgium currently has a statute of limitations that often prevents child victims of sexual assault from pressing charges after they have reached adulthood.

If someone is sexually abused as a child, they have 15 years after the age of 18 to press charges — something Halsberghe calls “ridiculous.”

“The Belgian police could not arrest Dejaeger in 2010 because there were no offenses that he had committed that were punishable by law,” she said.

And the law needs to change, Halsberghe said.

“It should change things in Belgium. Because people should realize that it’s necessary,” she said.

“I think it’s cruel that you make laws, and these laws are not correct when it comes to these kind of crimes. The laws should be changed and that’s the opinion of all victims of sexual abuse.”

The Canadian system is a better model to follow, she said.

A priest who this week is to face 76 sex charges involving Inuit children might have been tried years ago but for a quiet nod from Canada that allowed him to leave the country, says a church leader.
Georges Vervust is the top official with the Belgian Oblates, an order of Catholic priests that sent Eric Dejaeger to several communities in what is now Nunavut.
Vervust sheds light on questions that have troubled Dejaeger's alleged victims for nearly a decade: How was a man facing child abuse charges allowed to leave the country days before his trial? And why did it take so long for him to be returned?
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In 1995, Dejaeger had just completed a five-year sentence, most of it served in a halfway house and on probation, on 11 counts of sexual assault and indecent assault against children in Baker Lake, where he was posted after Igloolik.
He was scheduled to return to court on the Igloolik charges on June 13, 1995, but never showed. By then, he was in Europe.
An arrest warrant was immediately issued, but the disgraced priest was able to live quietly in Oblate communities in France and Belgium until he was returned in early 2011.

Internal Oblate reports obtained by The Canadian Press show that Dejaeger was planning to leave Canada almost right away.

On March 26, 1995, five weeks after the Igloolik charges were laid, he wrote Oblate officials in Belgium proposing a return. On April 20, 1995, he was invited to come back.

Some in the order knew Dejaeger was planning to leave, including his superior Jean-Paul Isabelle.
"He had finished his sentence," said Isabelle in 2011. "They gave him back his passport.

"I didn't agree with him leaving. I told him, 'Well, I don't want to know anything about this. But when you get to wherever you're going, here's a code that we're going to use to let me know where you are.'"

With Belgian and Canadian passports in hand, Dejaeger left. The Oblates were informed on June 20, 1995, that he had arrived in Belgium.

A few weeks later, an Oblate in Canada wrote Dejaeger telling him he was home free.
"It seems to me that they (Canada) will do nothing unless you come to Canada."
Vervust suggested Canada seemed glad to be rid of him.
"People from the police and his lawyer told him, 'Get out of here. As long as you don't come back to Canada there is not a problem.' And that's what he did," said Vervust in the documentary.

He made similar comments in a 2010 letter to fellow Oblates in which he said "people of the Canadian courts" told Dejaeger unofficially that he should leave the country and never return.
The cases were old, said Vervust's Dutch-language letter.
Dejaeger "left Canada without any problem."

In an email to The Canadian Press, Vervust said: "I heard that Eric was told — off the record — to leave Canada by some persons of the police and his lawyer and some Oblates.
"At that time it was thought that was the best thing to do. With hindsight, it turns out to have been a mistake."

Justice Canada has declined comment.

"As extradition requests are confidential communications, we can neither confirm, nor deny, the existence of an extradition request in this matter," said an official in response to a 2010 query about the Dejaeger case.
The Canadian Press could not reach Dejaeger's lawyer for comment.
An access to information request on Dejaeger was almost entirely redacted except for news reports.

Dejaeger's lawyer in 1995, John Scurfield, died in 2009.

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Nu in Canada het pedofilieproces start tegen de Vlaamse Oblaat Eric Dejaeger, rijst de vraag wie de bisschoppen bedoelden met 'u'. Lieve Halsberghe is onderzoekster bij BishopAccountability.org, een organisatie die wereldwijd gevallen van seksueel misbruik binnen de Rooms-Katholieke Kerk documenteert.

Nu in Canada het pedofilieproces start tegen de Vlaamse Oblaat Eric Dejaeger, rijst de vraag wie de bisschoppen bedoelden met 'u'.

In december stierf mijn vriend Marius Tungilik in Iqaluit. Hij was ooit één van de eerste slachtoffers die sprak over het seksueel misbruik in scholen en internaten voor Inuitkinderen zoals dat in Chesterfield. Het waren scholen waar de Grijze Zusters en de paters Oblaten de Inuitkinderen in het hoge noorden beschaving zouden brengen.


Er zijn ontzettend veel zelfmoorden in Nunavut. Marius had veel pijn en hij was moegestreden. Alle geestelijken tegen wie hij in de loop der jaren

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klacht had ingediend, waren op mysterieuze wijze verdwenen. Van één van zijn verkrachters vond hij nog een spoor terug in een Frans klooster, waar de man van een rustige oude dag genoot. Van de meeste andere belagers kon hij slechts vermoeden hoe het kwam dat ze zo opeens naar Europa waren teruggekeerd.


"De waarheid zal u vrijmaken", schreven de Belgische bisschoppen en hogere kerkelijke oversten in 2010 in hun brochure 'Verborgen verdriet'. Nu in Canada het pedofilieproces start tegen de Vlaamse Oblaat Eric Dejaeger, rijst de vraag wie zij bedoelden met 'u'.

Net als de paters die Marius Tungilik misbruikten, was Eric Dejaeger opeens verdwenen, nadat hij een eerste keer was geïnterpelleerd door de Canadese politie. Hij had toen al de waarheid kunnen vertellen. De zwaar getroffen Inuitgemeenschappen hadden toen al kunnen beginnen met het zoeken naar gerechtigheid en een genezingsproces.

In Igloolik, in het hoge noorden, had pastoor Krotki in al die jaren geen flauw idee waarheen pater Eric Dejaeger mocht zijn vertrokken. De waarheid, zo weten we sinds deTelefacts-reportage van gisteren, is dat de Vlaamse paters Oblaten hun criminele broeder tien jaar lang hebben verstopt. Pater Georges Vervust gaf het voor de camera eindelijk toe. Daarop aangesproken door andere journalisten, zei dezelfde Vervust eerder: "De politie zoekt hem niet, toch niet dat wij zouden weten"(DM, 22/5/10). Of: "Ons hart gaat vooral naar de slachtoffers daar."(De Standaard, 21/4/11).

Iedereen behalve zichzelf
In juli 1995 werd Eric Dejaeger per brief door de provinciale overste gewaarschuwd dat hij gearresteerd zou worden als hij naar Canada zou terugkeren. De brief werd in 2001 door de Oblaten naar de Interdiocesane Commissie Seksueel Misbruik (ICSM) doorgestuurd. De Vlaamse en Canadese oversten bespraken het 'probleem' op een vergadering in Mexico in het najaar van 2001. Een zogeheten Red Notice van Interpol vermeldde in 1998 de feiten waarvoor Canada Dejaeger terecht wou laten staan: 'Rape of minor, sex crimes'. Toen deKrant van West-Vlaanderenhierover berichtte in maart 2000, zag de Kerk geen probleem. Het opsporingsbericht werd in mei 2001 voorgelegd aan kardinaal Godfried Danneels. De ICSM drong er in 2004 bij de voorzitter van de Bisschoppenconferentie op aan Dejaeger naar Canada terug te sturen, zodat hij er terecht kon staan. Geen antwoord. Eén van de oversten bij de Vlaamse Oblaten vernietigde het Interpol-bericht.

De waarheid zal u vrijmaken?
Met 'u' bedoelt de hiërarchie van de Kerk iedereen behalve zichzelf. Zij wil de waarheid kennen, om vervolgens zelf te beslissen wat ze ermee gaat doen. Ze delen met politie of justitie is zelden een optie. Overal ter wereld richt de kerk commissies op die moeten voorkomen dat het tot waarheid en wereldlijke rechtspraak kan komen. Op BishopAccountability.org staan duizenden documenten die getuigen van steeds dezelfde strategie. De slachtoffers krijgen, enkel als het niet anders kan, een minimale schadevergoeding in ruil voor de schriftelijke belofte van geheimhouding.

Mocht iemand daar nog aan twijfelen, dan confronteert de zaak rond Eric Dejaeger ons er nog eens mee.
Dit is schuldig verzuim.(Lieve Halsberghe)

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Cardinal Roger Mahony will be deposed this month as part of a clergy abuse lawsuit set for trial in April.

"I would like to tell you that I have not received any letter from you dated March 23, 1987, nor any other information concerning "the homosexual problems of the priest." ... We have here in the Archdiocese of Los Angeles a clear plan of action: We do not admit priests with any homosexual problems."

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The Aguilar Case

A lawyer for a person who is alleging to have been abused by the Rev. Nicolas Aguilar Rivera said Friday that an agreement has been reached that will allow him to question the cardinal about his handling of the case.

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any given sunday Archbishop Jose Gomez's letter on priest sex abuse to be read at Sunday Masses

A letter from Archbishop Jose Gomez expressing his anguish about newly released sex-abuse files will be read during Mass on Sunday to Roman Catholics around the Los Angeles area, who will also hear pleas for donations to the region's poorest parishes.

 At St. Bartholomew Church in Long Beach, Monsignor Bernard Leheny plans to interject his own request - that parishioners put aside their anger at clergy implicated in the ongoing scandal and focus instead on living the tenets of their faith. "The hurt has been resurrected by the bad publicity and the mistakes that were made," Leheny said. "I worry that will hurt the poor parishes if people hold back (on donations).

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"But the church has made tremendous progress in  the protection of children. All the people who deal with children - not just the clergy, but lay ministers - have taken training sessions so they can be aware. "You see this around the church on any given Sunday."


Leheny's hope is that efforts by the church will allow its followers to someday get past the horrific details contained in the files on pedophile priests that were released last week.

The decades-old documents show that Cardinal Roger Mahony and his then-Vicar of Clergy Thomas Curry knowingly transferred priests accused of molestation from parish to parish and maneuvered to protect them from the police.
Minutes after the court-ordered release of some 12,000 pages of documents for 124 priests on Thursday, Gomez issued a statement describing the behavior detailed in the files as "terribly sad and evil." "There is no excuse, no explaining away what happened to these children," Gomez said in his statement, which will be read at Sunday Masses. "The priests involved had the duty to be their spiritual fathers and they failed."  Gomez indicated that he's working on a long-term plan to rebuild trust in the nation's largest archdiocese, with details to be announced in the weeks ahead.

"We will continue to work, every day, to make sure that our children are safe and loved and cared for in our parishes, schools and in every ministry in the archdiocese," he said. The first step in the process was a public rebuke of Mahony, whom Gomez stripped of his administrative and public duties - a move that sex-abuse victims decried as symbolic since the cardinal had no administrative duties and his public appearances were limited.

Gomez also allowed Curry to step down as bishop of the Santa Barbara region. Mahony fired back Friday with a letter to Gomez, noting that he's apologized repeatedly for his failures. And while he claimed to be ill-equipped to handle complaints of sex abuse during his first years in Los Angeles, the archdiocese "was second to none in protecting children and youth" by the time Gomez succeeded him as archbishop in 2011.
The church now has a policy of reporting allegations of abuse to law enforcement and removing the priests from ministry.

Leaders of the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, were skeptical of the church's efforts to protect its youngest members.
  "We are reaching out to Catholics and members of the community who may have been witnesses to abuse, who may be a whistle-blower, who may have heard allegations, may have heard a confession, may have heard an admission," said Joelle Casteix, western regional director of SNAP.

"We believe that is the only way we will get the true story of the scope and scale of abuse in the archdiocese." SNAP also called on authorities to investigate and prosecute high-ranking church officials who participated in the cover-up of child molestations.

The District Attorney's Office has said it is reviewing the files. The documents posted Thursday on the archdiocese website were part of a 2007 settlement with more than 500 sex-abuse victims, who shared in a record $660 million payout.
 The details in the new files are similar to those revealed in 14 cases released the previous week.

Still, there are surprising details showing how Mahony and his top aides plotted to protect the church from scandal. Mahony received a letter  in 1991 from a man stating that he'd been molested as a child by Father Carl Sutphin when he was assigned to St. Rose of Lima Parish in Maywood.

Mahony sent Sutphin away for treatment, then reassigned him as a chaplain at a convalescent home. After more allegations surfaced in 1994, again dating back to the '70s, the priest was transferred to St. Vibiana Cathedral.

Mahony later chose Sutphin to be an associate pastor when the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels opened in 2001.
A year later, however, Sutphin retired from the ministry when he was indicted for molestation - charges that were later dismissed because the statute of limitations had expired.
Sutphin was defrocked in 2005.

According to a church report, he was accused of molesting 18 young boys.
 "There are very few priests of this archdiocese who have had more allegations of such an egregious nature made against them," says a report summarizing the accusations against him.

During the early years of the sex-abuse scandal, church leaders typically took the word of priests over their accusers.

 After admitting to church officials that he'd had a long-term sexual relationship with a teenage girl in the late 1980s, Father Joseph Pina was ordered to undergo therapy, including a six-month stint at Villa St. John Vianney Hospital in Pennsylvania, described in the files as the most regimented treatment facility in country for problem priests.

 "I saw us as a boyfriend/girlfriend relationship," he told one therapist. Pina told another psychologist that he'd been attracted to an eighth-grade girl when he saw her in a costume.


 "She dressed as Snow White I had a crush on Snow White, so I started to open myself up to her," according to the file.

After his release, Pina was assigned to San Buenaventura Mission and told to have no one-on-one contact with females 14-30. By 1998, however, he'd been accused of taking young girls shopping and touching them inappropriately.
He was admitted to the sexual-offenders unit at Del Amo Hospital in Torrance and resigned days later from St. Emydius Church in Lynwood.

Pina was invested by a Ventura County grand jury, but was never charged, according to the file. He was defrocked in 2006.
Two years later, a follow-up memo says that Pina was working for the Los Angeles Unified School District. A 2008 memo posted online by LAUSD identifies Pina as the community contact for an elementary school being built in Canoga Park.

Father Gerald Fessard was allowed to continue in the ministry although he'd pleaded no contest in 1987 to one count each of battery and child molestation after fondling five teenage boys at Our Lady Queen of Angels High School Seminary.
 The plea deal got him a sentence of three years' probation.

A note from Curry says that neither the police nor the City Attorney's Office wanted to publicize the case. Fessard was told not to have contact with minors and to attend 12-step programs for alcohol and sex addiction. In 1994, however, he was accused of inappropriate contact with teenage girls and of being drunk at youth group meets at St. Luke Parish in Temple City. In 2002, Fessard and Mahony agreed that the priest would resign from the priesthood.

 That process took five years while Fessard pressured the church for financial support.

Terry McKiernan, president of bishopaccountability.org, which has been tracking the sex-abuse scandal at diocese across the U.S., said the next few months will be critical in determining the future of the Los Angeles Archdiocese.

He noted that Mahony was a champion for Hispanic Catholics and an advocate for immigrants. At the same time, many of the sex-abuse victims were youngsters from immigrant families.

  "The Latino population is a huge wild card," McKiernan said. "Will they forgive this kind of behavior? Having Gomez there makes a difference, but I wouldn't even dream of saying which way it's going to break." McKiernan and others said that efforts by Mahony and other church leaders to block the release of the documents prolonged the pain felt by sex-abuse victims and everyday Catholics.

"This is a tragedy that is continuing to have a ripple effect longer than anyone ever expected," said the Rev. Thomas Reese, a Jesuit and senior fellow at Woodstock Theological Center at Georgetown University.

"This is a tragedy for the victims, and a tragedy for the people of Los Angeles." 

Bevrijdingstheologie Keewatin - Le - Pas

Er was een bloedmooie meid van de week op die TRC hearing. Ze herhaalde zo'n keer of 6 - 7 haar oproep naar de kerken.
Ik wou dat ik wist of ik nu meer geschokt was door haar oproep of onder de indruk was van het benul dat ik niet onmogelijk keek naar een toekomstig leider.
Het was een prachtige meid
Ze was heel wanhopig.
Maar of ze nu oud genoeg of juist jong genoeg was om mij de leegheid van mijn armen te doen realiseren ?
Misschien was zij wel te oud en ik te jong
Misschien betekent g e n o c i d e dat dan wel?

bron

Maar wat  betekent  canon 401, §2 dan ? 

Healing drum? 

“The road we travel is equal in importance to the destination we seek.
There are no shortcuts. When it comes to truth and reconciliation, we are all forced to go the distance.”
-Justice Murray Sinclair,

Chair of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, to the Canadian Senate Standing Committee on Aboriginal Peoples,
September 28, 2010

Interim Report 

 

ROME (RKnieuws.net) - Paus Benedictus XVI heeft mgr. Murray Chatlain, tot op heden bisschop van Mackenzie-Fort Smith, benoemd tot aartsbisschop van Keewatin-Le-Pas (Canada). Dat meldt de Vaticaanse persdienst.

Het aartsbisdom Keewatin-Le-Pas telt 123.000 inwoners, waarvan 46.490 katholieken. In dit aartsbisdom zijn 14 priesters werkzaam.

Pope Benedict XVI on July 16 accepted the resignation of Archbishop Sylvain Lavoie, 65, pursuant to canon 401, §2, because he had become less able to fulfill his office "because of ill health or some other grave cause."
Lavoie had been on medical leave from the missionary Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Keewatin-Le Pas since last December. He was archbishop for almost 6½ years, shepherding a primarily First Nations flock, as he has done for most of his 36 years as a priest.


The Most Reverend Sylvain Lavoie, a professed Oblate from the order Les Oblats de Marie Immaculée, or The Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate (OMI), was ordained a priest in 1974. Eugene de Mazenod from Aix-en-Provence in France founded the Oblates order. Pope Leo XII approved the new congregation on Feb. 17, 1826. De Mazenod served as Bishop of Marseille and was elected superior general of the Oblates. He was canonized a saint by Pope John Paul II on Dec. 3, 1995.
On July 11, 2005, Lavoie was appointed coadjutor archbishop for the Archdiocese of Keewatin-Le Pas and in less than nine months fully succeeded Archbishop Peter Sutton, who retired to Ottawa, on March 25, 2006. Lavoie's official motto is, "The kingdom of God is among you."

While there is, truth be told, no easy time to be a bishop in the Canadian Catholic Church, Lavoie's appointment came at a particularly tumultuous time in Canada, especially here in the West and the North.

The archdiocese was involved in four residential schools at Beauval, Sturgeon Landing, Guy Hill and Cross Lake. Through the Corporation of Catholic Entities Party to the Indian Residential Schools Settlement (CCEPIRSS), created in 2006 to oversee the undertakings of the group of 54 Catholic dioceses and religious congregations under the Indian Residential School Settlement Agreement (IRSSA), the Archdiocese of Keewatin-Le Pas has been obliged since September 2007 to provide $1 million in cash over five years, $1.6 million of in-kind services and community work over 10 years, as well as support the fundraising Canada Wide Campaign (CWC).

The archdiocese has been meeting that obligation by paying out $200,000 a year since 2007. The Indian Residential School Settlement Agreement ended litigation facing the federal government and the four churches that ran the schools, where rampant abuse occurred, for more than a century, and which Lavoie has called, "a system that is now acknowledged as a flawed policy of colonization and assimilation."

In a Dec. 17, 2009 pastoral letter, Lavoie wrote: " We would encourage those from our archdiocese who attended the schools, or had family members and relatives who attended, to contribute to the [Truth and Reconciliation Commission] process, so that the historical record can be accurate.

Whereas over the past few years many held back from sharing positive experiences out of fear of being politically incorrect, now is the time to speak your truth so that it is heard and recorded."

Under Lavoie, the archdiocese has also been involved in such forward-looking initiatives as Kateri Television, sponsored by the Building Bridges Project of the Assembly of Western Catholic Bishops, and the Returning to Spirit Residential School Healing and Reconciliation program.

The archdiocesan seat and Bishop's House for the Archdiocese of Keewatin-Le Pas is at Our Lady of the Sacred Heart Cathedral in The Pas. The archdiocese takes in some 430,000 square kilometres and comprises the northern parts of Saskatchewan, Manitoba and Ontario. The farthest point west is LaLoche, Sask., near the Alberta border. The farthest point north is Lac Brochet here in Manitoba and the farthest point east is Sandy Lake in Northwestern Ontario.

The Pope appointed Father Bill Stang, also an Oblate, vicar general and chancellor for the archdiocese, who is also based at the cathedral in The Pas, July 16 as apostolic administrator during the episcopal interregnum.
There are approximately 37,000 Catholics in the archdiocese which includes 45 parishes and missions, with 15 diocesan and religious priests and seven women who are members of religious institutes. The Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate (OMI) established the first mission at Ile-à-la-Crosse, Sask. in 1860.

Lavoie was born in North Battleford, Sask. and raised on a farm in Highgate, Sask., belonging to the parish of St. Jean Baptiste de la Salle in Delmas. He attended White Cap School in Highgate, a one-room schoolhouse 5.6 kilometres from the family farm. In the Highgate M-H Beef Club he won awards for his record book as well as for his calf, recalls his younger sister, Jacqueline Lavoie Little.
She also recalled in a document entitled, Family recounts early years in rural Saskatchewan, published by the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Keewatin-Le Pas in December 2005, that, "While a teenager and young adult, Sylvain was very sociable, and the life of a party. He put his violin on the shelf but took up guitar. He entertained with both his playing and his singing." Lavoie also owned and rode a Honda motorcycle as a teen and went to high school at St. Thomas College in North Battleford.
The future priest and archbishop, during his third year of university, joined an international cast of Up with People, and toured with them for seven months throughout the United States, France and Belgium.
Up with People, with a cast of 70 to 100 students from, on average from 20 countries, was founded by J. Blanton Belk in 1965, as a conservative counterweight to attract young people during the turbulent Sixties. Belk had previously headed Moral Re-Armament (MRA), a religious movement founded by Frank Buchman in the late 1930s, a decade after Buchman founded the Oxford Group in the late 1920s, which would prove influential to Bill Wilson in 1935 and the founding of the 12-step program Alcoholics Anonymous (AA).
Belk, looking to channel the idealism and energy being demonstrated by young people in a positive and creative way, received support from such luminaries as former Republican president Dwight D. Eisenhower, West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer and De Witt Wallace, founder of Reader's Digest, in founding Up with People, while numerous critics have ascribed cult-like characteristics to all four organizations – the Oxford Group, Alcoholics Anonymous, Moral Re-Armament and Up with People. The "cult or cure" debate for the organizations has proved largely without resolution.

Lavoie himself has been a long-time supporter of using the spiritual principles found in Alcoholics Anonymous, and as recently as February of last year, facilitated a 12-step retreat, entitled "The Truth Will Set You Free," for about 45 about participants at Providence Centre in Edmonton. He facilitated a similar "Images of Hope" Brother Anthony Local Community Retreat at Star of the North Retreat Centre in St. Albert, Alta. for 35 participants over eight sessions in May 2008.

Lavoie has often cited the work of Father Richard Rohr, a Franciscan priest of the New Mexico Province, who founded the New Jerusalem Community in Cincinnati in 1971, and the Center for Action and Contemplation and Rohr Institute "in the spirit of a Cosmic Christ" in Albuquerque, New Mexico in 1986, which encourages "the transformation of human consciousness through contemplation," and Father Thomas Keating, a Trappist monk who belongs to the Order of Cistercians of the Strict Observance, and is one of the leading proponents of "centering prayer," which places a strong emphasis on interior silence.

Lavoie never served as an altar boy but in 1969, after university and Up with People, headed off to the Oblate Novitiate in Arnprior, Ont. But not before having second thoughts and heading briefly towards Mexico in his Toyota until his engine started knocking for lack of an oil change. He returned to a border town and changed the oil. His engine stopped knocking. Lavoie changed his mind about Mexico and it was onward again to the novitiate in Arnprior.

The archbishop is also an accomplished photographer and has had many opportunities to put his talent in that area to work travelling on pastoral visits throughout the archdiocese.
Lavoie travelled on gravel roads, winter roads, paved pavement, boat, snowmobile and other snow machines and by air when visiting the different missions. The farthest point west is LaLoche, Sask. The distance from the Bishop's House in The Pas to LaLoche, Sask., by car, is 850 kilometres – an 8½-hour drive. Lavoie would have to travel through the Diocese of Prince Albert in Saskatchewan to reach LaLoche in his own archdiocese.
The farthest point east he travelled is Sandy Lake, Ont., a fly-in and Northern Ontario Winter Road Network-only remote Oji-Cree First Nations community in Northwestern Ontario, 450 kilometres northeast of Winnipeg and 600 kilometres northwest of Thunder Bay.
The distance from the Bishop's House to Sandy Lake is a combined six-hour drive to Winnipeg, followed by a one- hour plane ride.
The farthest point north is Lac Brochet, reached by a four-hour drive from The Pas to Thompson and then an hour flight from Thompson to Lac Brochet. En route to Lac Brochet, Lavoie would sometimes stay at the rectory at St. Lawrence Church on Cree Road in Thompson overnight waiting to catch a morning flight and show up in church to help out the resident pastor here confessions, as he did March 19, 2008 before Easter.
Lavoie is perhaps the only archbishop to have received a photo credit for his pictures appearing in the Nickel Belt News.

Many of Lavoie's photos can be seen his blog, Reflections of a northern missionary: From beyond the Jackpine Curtain

The archbishop began the blog on Nov. 10, 2009 and the most recent entry is from last Oct. 27, recapping a weekend workshop and retreat a week earlier on Oct. 21-22, 2011 at St. Lawrence in Thompson, led by Armella Sonntag, regional animator for Saskatchewan/Keewatin Le Pas for the Canadian Catholic Organization for Development and Peace (CCODP).
Lavoie has also been known for his support of the annual Lac St Anne Pilgrimage in Alberta, about 75 kilometres northwest of Edmonton. This year's pilgrimage runs from July 22 to July 26. "First called Wakamne or God's Lake by the Nakota First Nations who live on the west end of the Lake and Manito Sahkahigan or Spirit Lake by the Cree, the lake was renamed Lac Ste Anne by Rev. Jean-Baptiste Thibault, the first Catholic priest to establish a mission on the site," says the Lac Ste. Anne Pilgrimage Company, the lay board the Oblates turned over the management and operation of the pilgrimage to a few years ago.
"The pilgrimage grounds had been sacred for generations of peoples and had become widely known as a place of healing. Aboriginal peoples camped on the site prior to contact with European fur traders and settlers," the board says. The pilgrimage was founded in 1887 by missionaries of the Oblates of Mary Immaculate. It has become the largest annual gathering of First Nations people in Canada. Last year close to 55,000 pilgrims, mostly aboriginal and Métis, made the Lac St Anne Pilgrimage.

The Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada (TRC) 
hosted hearings in Thompson (September 25 and 26)
and at Sagkeeng First Nation (October 2 and 3)
  TRC webcasts from trc_cvr at livestream.com

Eric Dejaeger omi

Father Eric Jose Dejaeger omi (Father Erik Dejaeger / Father Eric Dejaeger)

NOTE:  On 01 October 2012 Father Eric Dejaeger entered  not guilty pleas to all 76 charges against him in Nunavut.  His trial has been set to commence 28 October 2013 – it is expected to last 10 weeks.  It is as yet uncertain whether the trial will travel to various Nunavut communities to allow complainants and other witnesses to testify or whether complainants and all witnesses will travel to Iqaluit.  He has a preliminary hearing scheduled for 20 & 21 December 2012 on his Edmonton, Alberta charges.
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Oblate priest. Ordained 1978. Convicted x 2 for sex abuse of children in Baker Lake, Nunavut (formerly North West Territories).  In 1995 fled Canada for his native Belgium when he was faced with a further six  child sex abuse charges. These charges stem from his time in Igloolik, Nunavut (formerly North West Territories)  (Both Baker Lake and Igloolik are part of the Diocese of Church-Hudson Bay.)
In 2001 an Intrepol warrant (Red Notice)  was issued for Dejaeger.
This fugitive from justice was deported from Belgium 19 January 2011. He landed in Iqaluit, Nunavut 20 January 2011 and was taken directly to the Iqaluit courthouse and then to the Baffin Correctional Centre where he is currently housed in a single cell and, by personal preference, is segregating himself from the rest of the inmate populace. As of February 2012 he is facing 38 charges in Nunavut, most sex related. As of 15 December 2011 he is facing four charges from two complainants in Edmonton, Alberta.