Seven years under the control of a pimp

Illustration Nathalie Samson

Claudia Berthiaume

Sunday, 30 July, 2017 08:00

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Badly shaken by the sudden loss of his parents, Laura (fictitious name) was not a méfiée when a pimp has seduced candidly at a bus stop. The contact of this individual without scruples, the shy girl became a exotic dancer, escort, whore, street, and consuming crack cocaine. From court documents, this is the story of a victim brave, who managed to get out of the clutches of a pimp after seven years of calvary, and to be condemned to six years in prison.

At 18, Laura was the eldest of a family of four children, tightly woven. His parents being very protective, she had never had a boyfriend.

But the young adult was living a very difficult period when she met Frederick Francillon, in the fall of 2007.

Photo provided by the police of Laval

Frederick Francillon
Pimp

A few months earlier, his father killed his mother. It is Laura who has made the macabre discovery in the garage of the family residence. His father was sent to prison, and all the siblings had to move with an uncle, where she stayed in the garage.

When Francillon was approached at a bus stop de Laval, telling him that she was pretty, Laura was so vulnerable, fragile. The young woman was returning from a chemistry course and she was off to Montreal to go shopping.

Francillon was followed. It was both uncomfortable and unable to say no. “I am the herd, I find it hard to express myself,” said Laura to the Court, in telling his story.

The young woman was believed to have found an attentive ear, a compassionate man. Laura confided to him about the homicide of his mother. Francillon presented himself as an entrepreneur of 18 years. It was in fact a pimp of 26 years.

Promises

Like a prince on his white horse, he has promised to the sea and the world. A large house where all his family could live, a car, money in profusion.

Laura has thought…

For all that, Laura had to start by paying 200 $. Francillon swears that he will donate $ 300 the time comes. The amount is quickly inflated, so that at the end of the day, he had $ 1000 to Laura. A large sum for one who was working at a Tim Hortons to pay for his studies.

That night, Laura slept with Francillon in a motel room.

“I don’t have layovers in us, I went to spend the night with him because I was waiting for this money-there,” she explained.

The next day, his family has launched the police on his heels. Investigators went to pick it Laval.

Francillon did not, however, let him leave so easily the woman who would become his goose that lays the golden eggs. He has stopped calling until she answered. Three days later, he showed up at Laura, allegedly to give him money.

Porn and first time

But the pimp had a different plan when it is mounted in his car. Francillon, and a man who accompanied him had brought Laura in a suite at the Hilton Laval.

“There, he makes pornographic films, and then we had our first sexual relationship “, she describes. The first to life, for Laura.

Francillon and his friend are smoking crack all night. The next day, they are awakened by the police of Laval, which he knocks on the door. They stop the pimp.

Since the prison, Francillon called Laura. He tells her that he loves her, he is sorry, he is going to make his life better. As soon as he is released on bail, his Don Juan happens to take in the company of a young woman. This is the beginning of the ordeal of Laura.

He explains that she will have to become a dancer for “the business” of Francillon.

Be nice…

“All you have to do is be pretty, and then you shimmy. Then, you’ll have $ 500 per day, ” explains another young woman. Trust by this last, Laura said that she ” will try “, for his money back.

The young woman danced so, 10-15 $ for the song, for three years, at the rate of five or six nights a week. First in a bar near the airport, then in two clubs a little more prestigious of Montreal.

Each night, when she returns to the studio without furniture or a fridge that she shares with Francillon, she gave him all her earnings. It is he who takes care of the finances of ” the business “, he said.

Laura thought that her man had placed the money somewhere in order to buy their big house. In reality, all of its income were consumed, in front of his eyes, in the crack pipe of Francillon.

He does not leave anything. Laura cannot be bought never clothing or makeup. Sometimes she has to steal to eat or buy tampons. If she’s nice, and she has earned enough money, Francillon allows him to go to Mcdonalds on occasion.

When she asks for a little money, he replied: “Pa gen,” which means “I don’t have one” in creole. And if she dares to ask a question, Francillon soon becomes aggressive.

Once, he found the money concealed in the lining of the bag to the young woman’s hand. He sparked an angry monster.

Laura can never get out without him, except to go to ” work “. When she’s not working, it is him who uses it as a sexual object.

As a trash can

All links with his family are cut off, the trust is broken. Their identity cards have all “disappeared” without explanation. It is pointless, she thinks : “I am far from the scenario that I made in 2007. “

Laura began taking drugs with her pimp. Bad idea, she quickly understood. Francillon began to beat her because she brought less money to the house.

“For him, I’m like a garbage bag,” she pointed out.

He told her that nobody wanted her, nobody would care if she died. The pimp demanded always more and more money. So he “booked” Laura bars, you goof.

“The clubs at goof, these are the clubs where [there is] prostitution,” said the young woman in the Court. It is 100 $ for a blowjob, $ 200 for a relationship to be complete.

Laura has spent a few months in a bar in the Laurentians, and then there was a descent. She was arrested for being found in a bawdy house.

It will with a $ 150 fine… and a criminal record.

Tied her up and Stabbed her

Francillon was then sent to a club in the Montérégie region. One evening, Laura is back with 60 $. There was a snow storm and few clients had presented themselves at the bar. The pimp ” saw red “. He accused Laura of hiding money and having sex free.

Francillon was strapped to a chair with duct tape. He has also put on the mouth, before he planted a knife in the right leg.

“When he removed the knife, he saw that it was bleeding a lot, he told me to go to clean it, [that it was] disgusting,” she describes. No question of going to the hospital.

The pimp then sent Laura to “make shifts” of 15 hours per day in the Beauce region. Every night, she was scheduled to visit a Wal-Mart and send his winnings to Francillon by Western Union.

After two weeks there, Laura began to feel excruciating pain in the lower abdomen, to the point where she had to be hospitalized. Diagnosis : a cyst on the ovary, due to too great sexual activity. She stayed for three days on antibiotics.

Force output of the Hospital

Then, Francillon was impatient. He had no money, having spent them all in cognac, drugs and prostitutes in the absence of Laura.

The pimp went to the hospital and ordered the young woman to sign a refusal of treatment, what she has done. And the riding clubs that boner has continued.

At this time, Laura had to work tirelessly to achieve pay the legal fees of his / her ” partner “. Francillon was again behind bars, this time for death threats to the owner of the apartment that he shared with the young woman.

To earn more money, she had to become an escort on call. She was waiting for the clients attracted by advertisements on the internet, in a motel room.

When Francillon was released on bail, he demanded that Laura ” made the street “.

“I was following her directions, he told me : “You embarques in a tank, and then you offer your” services “, she explained.

After each client, she would bring her money to her pimp, who went directly home to his ” pusher “.

“Hole rats “

But the pay is not returned quickly enough to the taste of Francillon. Laura has had to start to receive customers directly in their home of Montreal, and this, seven days a week.

The couple then moved to Laval, in a ” hole rats “. It is there that Laura had really reached the bottom of the barrel. Francillon was forced to go to the sidewalk on the boulevard des Laurentides. She worked at any time of the day or night, depending on the mood and needs of her pimp.

“If he had a rage [of drugs] at 4 a.m., and I had to get up, [that] I will put on my shoes, and then I go outside,” she illustrated.

Laura almost felt better outside, away from him, until the day when the stomach aches came back. She was in agony of pain, so a neighbor called an ambulance. After two days in the hospital, Francillon was again forced to sign a refusal of treatment.

For a year, Laura has ruined his health in the streets. She was eating crack because, ” it was the only way to overcome it “. The young woman didn’t know how to get out of it.

“I was surprotégée by my parents. So when I lost them all of a sudden, me, I thought that that was the life. I thought it was him who would show me the life, then this is what it showed me, ” she mentioned.

Hidden four months

In September 2014, after seven years of terror, Laura took his courage in both hands. She left Francillon.

“I just reality, she recounted. […] I said to myself, it is so disgusting that I saw that at the worst I live in a park. “

She did not lodge a complaint, fearing reprisal for her or her family.

Laura has managed to hide from her pimp for four months. But Francillon eventually find it and he came home with a firearm. He has vowed to return him to slice the throat. It was too much for Laura. This time, she called the police.

She stayed for a month in a home for abused women, the time that the investigators put a hand to the collar of Francillon. It was in April of 2015.

A little over two years later, Laura has remade his life, despite enduring scars. The young woman, now aged 28, has resumed contact with his family.

Small prison sentence

She has a job, but nothing is simple. His name has been muddied with the housing authority, the SAAQ, Hydro-Québec and many others, as Francillon would use it to pay for everything. She had to make a cross on a career in nursing.

In 2016, Laura has set a day to tell her ordeal to the judge Dominique Larochelle, during the preliminary investigation of the pimp. What she experienced is akin to torture, has pointed to the magistrate.

A few weeks ago, Laura was finally able to put all that history behind it.

Frederick Francillon has pleaded guilty, and was sentenced to six and a half years of prison for everything he has done to Laura. It is, therefore, to say that he will spend less time behind bars that Laura has been under its yoke.

Station with skillful charmers

The pimps are skilled charmers with multiple faces, can be taken to just about anyone, warns the police of Laval, who wishes to educate young girls about the danger that lurks.

“At 18 years, regardless of the family where we come from, it is at a stage of life where one is vulnerable. We research the affection of others. One engages with someone, and we give him our trust, but the pimps have another goal, ” insisted the inspector Alain Best.