Guilty of assault on a 10-teens

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Brother Réjean Trudel during his arrest by the Sûreté du Québec in November 2014 in Saint-Hyacinthe.

Magalie Lapointe

Friday, 29 September 2017, 14:29

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SAINT-HYACINTHE | A judge has not believed in a religious found guilty of sexually assaulting 10 vulnerable adolescents there is almost 40 years old, Saint-Hyacinthe.

Judge Richard Marleau stressed that the marist brother Réjean Trudel home to the teens most in need. Trudel has described young people as ” poqués “, “dependent socioaffectifs” and ” the worst case of the DPJ “.

“The story of the young was problematic or pathetic, the more he was welcome to join the Patro “, he wrote in his judgment.

The judge said that the brother of 73-year-old today was invented disorders of memory during his testimony to dodge the questions.

Nine of the victims brother lived Patro Lokal Saint-Hyacinthe, a shelter serving as a host family to young boys between the ages of 14 to 18 years from disadvantaged backgrounds in difficulty. The touching and assault happened in the early 1970s until the early 1980s.

A victim of Trudel, who was present Friday to hear the judgment is output to the outside of the palace, relieved. “It is a very beautiful day. It goes everywhere with the truth, even 40 years later “, she started.

Requests sexual

In addition to having been abused by Trudel, the 54 year old man has had to submit to requests for sexual another marist brother, brother Daniel Cournoyer. He was also found guilty on Friday before a different judge, but only on a victim.

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Daniel Cournoyer
Guilty

As Réjean Trudel, the brother Cournoyer has denied his actions from the beginning to the end of the trial.

Masturbations, blowjobs, fondling, a man of 54 years was the prey of the religious, and “he knew what he had to do” he did not want to leave the Patro Lokal. Because, in his child’s head, if he wanted to continue to receive the privileges, he had to obey the demands of the religious.

The brother Trudel knew how to manipulate his victims. These children who came from poor families, destitute and often violent wanted only to be loved. Trudel took the opportunity to spoil them by offering them alcohol and cigarettes, even if they did not have the legal age.

One even referred to the Patro Lokal “Walt Disney” so much he felt privileged to live there.

For these children, have access to the ping-pong tables, an outdoor swimming pool in the summer, ice skating in the winter and receive $ 20 allowance per week was not significant.

For all these reasons, these children, now adults, did not want to ever disappoint the brothers, and agreed that they will be attacked.

The two religious have left the palace without handcuffs, promising to abide by their terms.

The lawyers will be back before the judges of the Court of Québec 11 and October 16 to provide the dates of the oral arguments on sentence.

One victim denounced for his family

A victim has denounced his sexual assault suffered by two marist brothers and to prove to his family that he had to always tell the truth.

The man who is attacked by the brothers Cournoyer & Trudel did not want to trial. Tell her story before a judge was not what he wanted.

His goal was to be free from this terrible secret that he kept for 35 years going to reveal it to the police.

“For me, just the fact to go and denounce them to the police, I had turned the page. The jail time will not change anything in my life, ” explained the victim.

In front of two judges

The victim, who was due to testify before two judges, over the course of two trials different, don’t regret having gone to the bottom of things. However, what he held closest to his heart, it was to demonstrate to his family that the truth is always right.

“I’ve educated my children by telling them to tell the truth. I told the truth and they were convicted “, he added.

The victims, wives and friends were numerous in the reading of the two judgments of the brothers Cournoyer & Trudel. The victims are tightened against each other at the exit of the court room.

♦ The judge Marleau has mentioned to the lawyer of the accused, Ms. Mélissa Gagnon, that, as mr. Trudel denied categorically all the facts of which he was accused, no pre-sentence report or sexological is not accepted.