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20 January 2015

Sex-abuse victim tells priest's sentencing hearing wood smell triggers memories

IQALUIT, Nunavut - There's a smell that brings it all back. One whiff, and once again he's a little boy being raped by a priest in a dank furnace room at the Catholic mission in Igloolik, Nunavut. "Whenever I smell moldy wood, it takes me back to that place," the man told a court in Iqaluit on Monday during the sentencing hearing for his onetime tormentor. "It makes me angry."

http://www.timescolonist.com/opinion/sex-abuse-victim-tells-priest-s-sentencing-hearing-wood-smell-triggers-memories-1.1735340