The Beauval Indian Residential School in Saskatchewan closed in 1983. It was operated as a Native education center that closed in 1995. The red and white building where classes took place has since been demolished. Photo from HIstory of La Loche

The Court of Appeal for Saskatchewan ordered a man convicted of abusing boys at a Native residential school to report back to prison.

Paul Leroux was a dormitory supervisor at the Beauval Indian Residential School in the 1950s and 1960s. He was convicted of 10 counts of indecent assault for sexually abusing boys and was sentenced to three years, a punishment viewed as light by some of his victims.

After serving only a year, Leroux was released in December on parole. But he will have to go back to prison tomorrow because the court said he must serve an eight-year sentence instead.

"The physical and sexual abuse that occurred at Indian residential schools is grimmer by reason of the exceptionally vulnerable nature of its victims and the utter imbalance of power as between the aboriginal victims of that abuse and their families, on the one hand, and the church, the state, and their respective agents -- the latter of which usually includes the abuser -- on the other," Justice Neal Caldwell wrote in the decision.

Leroux was previously convicted of abusing boys at a different residential school in the 1960s and 1970s. He was sentenced to 10 years in that case and was released after serving three, according to The Inquiry.

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