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December 4, 2017

Innu women testify that Oblate missionary inappropriately touched them

Father Joveneau was a prominent religious leader among the Innu people and was held in high regard in the community. The revelations of alleged abuse came during five days of hearings that ended Dec. 1 by the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls regarding events in the Cote-Nord region in eastern Quebec.
MONTREAL – Oblate Father Alexis Joveneau was said to have inappropriately touched women and girls in the Innu community in Quebec where he ministered from 1953 until his death in 1992.
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