Canada: Grollier Hall supervisor convicted across three decades of proceedings

Proceedings

1. 1998-01-01 · convictions in three rounds; sentence increased on Crown appeal

   NWT courts (1979, 1998); Saskatchewan courts and Court of Appeal (2013, 2015). Paul Leroux was sentenced to 10 years in 1998 for gross indecency, indecent assault and attempted buggery against 14 boys at Grollier Hall (1967–1979), following a 1979 conviction. In 2013 he was further convicted for abuse at Beauval Indian Residential School (1959–1967); the Saskatchewan Court of Appeal increased that sentence from three to eight years in 2015 on a Crown appeal.

Appellate history

1. 2015 · undefined

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Documented coercion mechanisms

• custodial authority over Indigenous boys at church-run residences