Child Allegedly Sexually Abused Priest remains unearthed and removed from Kanawak Mohawk community it was done.
Mohawk Council Kanawakegoverns a community south ofMontrealand holds the remains of apastor is talking about His Leon Lajoie, who died in 1999, was exhumed Wednesday.
Last summer, several members of the community claimed to have been abused by Lajoie and called for his remains to be removed to begin the healing process.
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March community members voted 233 for his excavation and then to 195.
Lajoie, a Jesuit, arrived in Kanawake in 1961 and was a parish priest until 1990.
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The Jesuits accused the Jesuits of a serious sexual assault at the "Saint Francis Xavier Mission", the church where LaJoie was buried. '' but found no evidence of abuse by Lajoie, the investigation concluded that the assault was perpetrated by someone else.
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