Former Dillon Priest Pleads Guilty to Sex Crimes
Friday, January 09, 2004 at 15:39
A 79-year-old former priest has been sentenced to two years in a federal penitentiary for sex crimes committed against children in two Northern Saskatchewan communities.
Norbert Dufault pleaded guilty to 8 charges of indecent assault earlier today in Battleford Court of Queen’s Bench.
The charges date back to when Dufault worked as a priest in Dillon and as a residential school supervisor in Beauval in the late 1950s and early 1960s.
Some of his victims were as young as 8 years of age.
Four of his victims witnessed today’s sentencing.
A civil suit is pending.