Accused pedophile has history of sexual abuse

A Vancouver man at the center of a residential school abuse case in Saskatchewan has a history of abusing boys elsewhere in Canada.

Paul Leroux, 70, was charged this week by the RCMP with 13 counts of indecent assault, involving boys attending the Indian Residential School in Beauval in the 1960’s. He was a dormitory supervisor at the school.

According to court documents from the Northwest Territories Department of Justice website, it’s not the first time Leroux has been accused of a similar crime.

He was convicted in 1998 of molesting boys at the Grollier Hall residential school in Inuvik. Those charges, involving 14 male victims, go back to the 1960s and 1970s, when Leroux was working as a school supervisor.