Nearly 300 victims for a cyberprédateur

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Philippe Truchon
Cyberprédateur

Claudia Berthiaume

Wednesday, 11 October 2017 21:55

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The Crown wants a cyberprédateur without empathy with almost 300 underage victims in his life to be declared a long term offender.

Manipulator, empathy non-existent, risk of recidivism is high, rehabilitation prospects bleak : the portrait of Philippe Truchon is very negative.

The man, 37-year-old has been described by a psychologist and a probation officer who assessed him recently, at the request of the judge Manon Ouimet, at the palais de justice of Montreal.

Wednesday, Me Roxane Laporte, the Crown asked that the accused be sent 60 days at the Institut Philippe-Pinel, to determine if it should be declared a long term offender.

Last July, Truchon has pleaded guilty to 12 counts of luring computer, threat, criminal harassment and possession of ecstasy for the purpose of trafficking.

Sexy Photos

Between January 2016 and April 2017, the cyberprédateur has contacted five girls aged 15 to 17 years through Facebook. He made himself out to be a bar owner or a clothing store and offered the girls jobs as a waitress or a fashion model.

Truchon then asked the teens to send him sexy photos of them as well as their measurements. The thirties and became very aggressive if the girls refused.

The cyberprédateur pushed the audacity so far as to meet with a victim at her high school. No gesture with a sexual connotation did not, however, been asked.

The man, 37-year-old was trapped last spring by an agent, double the Montreal police.

Upon his arrest, investigators have discovered a lined notebook containing the phone numbers of a hundred teenage girls.

Repeat offender

This is not the first time that Truchon target young girls of the kind. In 2011, he was sentenced to a total sentence of three years in prison for luring 286 teenage girls on the internet.

At the time, a psychologist who had assessed the accused did not feel that it was necessary that he be declared a long term offender.

If it is found with this label, Truchon will now serve a minimum of two years in prison. It will be subsequently subjected to a close surveillance, which can last up to 10 years.