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Babel Fish translation :
Recognized guilty of sexual aggression in 2006 Simonin its sorrow in the community will purge Sylvain Daignault Recognized guilty in December 2006 of sexual aggressions on a minor person occurred between 1985 and 1992, Marcel Simonin, 67 years, which was Old within the Witnesses of Jéhovah de Châteauguay at the time of these crimes, was condemned to a nine months sorrow of prison, pains that it will purge in the community.
Simonin received its sentence last Wednesday with the law courts of Valleyfield.
At the time of the first aggressions, the victim, a girl, was only eleven years old. It is in the room of the Kingdom of the Witnesses of Jéhovah de Châteauguay that the mother of the young victim had met the individual who occupied the role of Old then, i.e. it took the word at the time of the assemblies.
It taught the precepts of life and supported the members of the congregation spiritually. After having succeeded in gaining the confidence of this woman and that of her daughter, this one was devoted thereafter to intimate contacts with the teenager, of the contacts going of the simple contacts to the complete sexual relation. During these eight years, the aggressions occurred at several places, in particular at the individual, in his car, in the residence of the girl and the room of the Kingdom of the Witnesses of Jéhovah with Châteauguay.
In its judgement, judge Linda Despots, Court of criminal appeal and penal, note which the victim had deposited a complaint whereas it had 16 or 17 years but which it withdrew thereafter this complaint "feeling under the pressure of the community and the threat to be expelled of it". It is another Old, in the area of Quebec where the mother and the plaintiff were moved, who convinced it to write a letter with the authorities of the congregation of the Witnesses of Jéhovah concerning what it had lived with the defendant.
Following the reception of this letter, Simonin telephoned with its victim to excuse gestures posed after having recognized the veracity of it. The plaintiff would then have forgiven him. But when, in 2003, the girl re-examines the defendant at the time of an assembly of the Witnesses of Jéhovah at the Olympic Stage of Montreal, its presence revives its wounds and revives to him this culpability lived during the years when it was victim of contacts. Follow themselves from there then difficult years for the girl where it makes three suicide attempts and undertakes a psychological follow-up. In 2005, in order to continue her therapeutic step and to release themselves, the girl again decides to deposit a complaint against the defendant.
Estimating that the credibility of the marked one - which always denied to have been devoted to the reproached acts - was affected for several reasons, the Court declared Marcel Simonin guilty of aggression sexual under the terms of articles 246.1(1)a), 271(1)a) and 153(1)a) of the criminal Code. Before 1996, a person found guilty of an infringement criminal and condemned to a sorrow of imprisonment of less than two years was to purge her sorrow in detention in a prison.
Today, a person condemned to a sorrow of imprisonment of less than two years can purge this sorrow within the community if the court considers that an ordinance of imprisonment with deferment is suitable. The Sun tried in vain Thursday last to join the Room of the Kingdom of the Witnesses of Jéhovah de Châteauguay to obtain comments. Officially, the Witnesses of Jéhovah oppose the paedophilia.