Sentenced to eight years in prison for drug trafficking, a father who allegedly took advantage of a release to sexually assault his seven-year-old daughter was able to regain his freedom.
In 2012, a 43-year-old man who was at the head of a major network of synthetic drug traffickers received a deterrent sentence of eight years in prison.
He was then able to receive an ex-officio release in December 2018, an automatic release of two-thirds of his sentence.
Having encountered financial difficulties, in particular due to a legal mortgage of more than $ 200,000 on his residence which he owed to the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA), the offender had behavioral problems. . Three months after his release, the latter was imprisoned again for the first time, then a second time in January 2020.
Sexual assault
At that time, he would not have “respected the directives of the DPJ [lui] forbidding to have contact with [sa] girl, unless she is in the presence of an authorized person ”.
According to the report of the Parole Board of Canada (PBC), the offender, father of a seven-year-old girl, was “suspected of sexual abuse against him”.
Despite his doubts, the PBC nonetheless released the father, considering that he had “a better knowledge of [ses] difficulties ”.
Living on social assistance, he was helped by his wife, then pregnant, who had taken out a “loan of several thousand dollars in order to relieve him of a financial obligation”, namely his debt to the tax authorities.
Last September, however, a new suspension of his freedom was decreed when the offender’s daughter contracted genital herpes after having vaginal pain. It turns out that the ex-trafficker is also a carrier of the genital herpes virus.
An investigation has been launched by the SQ and criminal charges will be “assigned very soon,” according to the PBC report. In hearing, the offender explained himself by saying that his “daughter could have contracted genital herpes when[il lui mettait] cream, on the toilet seat or by his mother ”.
History of domestic violence
In this context, the offender’s management team recommended the revocation of liberty to the PBC, considering the risks it represents, but the commission did not see it the same way.
The latter “took into consideration [sa] willingness to respect the instructions that will be issued by the DPJ to [sa] prison exit “.
Moreover, even if he has already been violent towards his spouse, the commission says that he believes the delinquent when he affirms “to have no bitterness towards the mother of [ses] children ”.
Also convinced of the offender’s “stable mental health”, the commission released him in recent days, believing that he was “convinced[e] a recurrence […] will not represent an unacceptable risk to society ”.
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