Dental therapist molested kids in at least two Nunavut communities, lawyer alleges – NunatsiaqOnline

The late Daniel Nahogaloak worked in Igloolik, Taloyoak, Cambridge Bay

August 17, 2017

A dental therapist who died in 2016 may have sexually abused young children in several Nunavut communities in the 1980s, leaving his victims so traumatized that afterwards they were too terrified to seek dental care, alleges Alan Regel, an Edmonton-based lawyer and member of the Nunavut bar.

Regel said the late Daniel Nahogaloak was trained by the federal government as a dental therapist and sent back north as part of a program to improve dental hygiene in the North.

Nahogaloak, who died in December 2016 at age 63, is listed as residing in Cambridge Bay in 1986, according to court documents obtained by Nunatsiaq News.

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