By Collin Stockwell

Sexual abuse victim angry over 3-year sentence for Paul Leroux

Dec 13, 2013 | 9:00 AM

There was anger, disappointment and tears outside a Battleford courtroom on Thursday over a sentence for a man who sexually abused young boys at a residential school.

Leroux has been sentenced to three years in a federal prison on 10 counts of sexual abuse for molesting young boys when he was a dormitory supervisor at Beauval Residential School in the 1960s. During the sentencing the judge concluded that Leroux has a low chance to re-offend and has previously completed rehabilitation programs for a similar sentence in 1998.

The judge at the Battleford Court of Queen’s Bench said if all 10 of his convictions were served consecutively it would equal 17 years which would be a crushing sentence for the 73 year old man. Instead all the sentences will be served at the same time, with total time in prison equalling his longest sentence.

Crown Prosecutor Mitch Piche said the sentence is nowhere near the 11 year sentence he argued for.

“I’m not satisfied with the sentence. I think it’s too low in the circumstances and I’ll have to of course consider my position but I expect that I will be calling my head office to see about launching an appeal.

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Many of the victims at court were upset with the decision, including one man who spoke anonymously outside court.

“I think it was a farce given the number of offenses he was facing and I don’t think age should have been a factor in his sentencing because he sure didn’t consider the age of the people he molested,” he said.

“I feel so totally inadequate, I feel like my life is worthless for what the judge had given him – three years. With good behaviour he’ll be out of there in seven months, he’ll be out by next summer while we have to live with what he has done to us.”

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