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"This monster cannot be allowed to get away": Residential school survivor to ask Pope for justice

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When Piita Irniq meets Pope Francis in Iqaluit on Friday, he will make a request he’s been waiting a lifetime to deliver.

In August 1958, when he was 11 years old, Irniq was kidnapped from his family home in Naujaat (then called Repulse Bay) on the shores of Hudson Bay and forced to attend a residential school in Chesterfield Inlet.

Like so many other Indigenous students, he endured terrible abuse. Six decades later, he plans to ask the Pope, in person, to send one of their alleged abusers, Father Johannes Rivoire, to Canada so he can finally face justice.

“This monster cannot be allowed to get away with what he did to Inuit children,” Irniq said.

Jeff Semple has more.

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