https://ottawacitizen.com/news/local-news/priest-guilty-of-assault-and-sex-assault-at-nordik-spa
This apparently happened back in 2016.
Another Canadian Armed Forces military chaplain was involved with unwanted sexual touching.
I can’t be the only one sensing a trend going on here.
Captain Father Angus McRae (chaplain).
Captain McRae’s altar boy.
Brigadier General Roger Bazin (chaplain)
Corporal Donald Joseph Sullivan (instructor of altar boys)
and now Captain Jean El-Dahdouh (chaplain).
And no, these aren’t the only chaplains.
Unfortunately the way military record keeping worked is that military convictions via summary trial or courts martial were not compiled in a database or made known to the Canadian Police Information Centre (CPIC). The only way that the sexual escapades of a member of the Canadian Armed Forces ever made it into the public realm is if the member appealed their military conviction in the Courts Martial Appeal Court of Canada (CMAC). Only after the conclusion of a CMAC appeal would the fact that a courts martial occurred become public knowledge. This is how the Ontario Crown was completely unaware of Donald Joseph Sullivan’s military convictions for child sexual abuse when he was sentenced in the 2000s for sexually abusing children in the ’80s.
Who knows how many kiddie diddler chaplains there were in the Canadian Armed Forces.
Somehow Captain El-Dahdouh got the bright idea to assault women at a nordic spa in Chelsea in the province of Quebec.
Two of his known victims were 17.
Apparently the Canadian Armed Forces took swift and decisive move in 2016 of suspending the good Captain until he was convicted in 2019. Not sure if he was confined to barracks, or suspended with pay.
Going to go out on a limb here and I’ll just assume that the Canadian Forces National Investigation Service conducted one heckuva detailed investigation to see if the good Captain had any interactions with military dependents under the age of 18 on which ever bases Captain El-Dahdouh had been stationed at or had visited.
All I can say is that it’s a damn good thing that these incidents of abuse occurred OFF-BASE and after December 1998 and the passage of Bill C-25(1998).
Had these abuses occurred on base prior to 1998, then the 3-year-time-bar would have been in full effect as well as the summary investigation flaw. Even if the women had reported Captain El-Dahdouh to the military police or the CFSIU right away, the women would have had to hope like hell that Captain El-Dahdouh’s commanding officer didn’t simply dismiss the charges brought against Captain El-Dahdouh.
“He was just being overly friendly”
“He had a little too much to drink”
“Ministering to the military causes a lot of stress”
I wonder how his commanding officer would have explained this away.
Beeshive 