Two young people who improvised pimps by recruiting minors to offer sexual services will go to jail.
Photos Pierre Paul Poulin
Jérémy Corrigan and Jérémy Boulanger at the Longueuil courthouse, where they were sentenced to 42 and 26 months in prison.
Jérémy Boulanger and Jérémy Corrigan recently admitted their crimes outside the Longueuil courthouse.
In the fall of 2020, they pressured a 15-year-old girl into offering her body to men for money. Corrigan, then 18, and the victim had met through the SnapChat app.
When she was first asked to prostitute herself, she refused. In the end, however, she agreed to create a Tinder account, accompanied by daring photos.
A customer soon showed up. Accompanied by co-defendant Jérémy Boulanger, Corrigan and the teenager went to a motel.
The group could not pay the amount of the room and asked the customer to pay.
However, since the clerk found that the young person was a minor, he refused to rent her a room. The teenager eventually admitted to the client that she was in fact underage, prompting him to flee.
Saved randomly
The trio went to another motel. Feeling guilty that the transaction had failed, the teen accepted that an ad was placed on an escort site to advertise her sexual services. Some customers have replied.
“Fortunately, no conversation followed,” the Crown Prosecutor said in the Me Ève Malouin file before the court, specifying that the defendants were intoxicated with Xanax, an anxiolytic, at the time.
The teenager’s ordeal ended thanks to the chance presence of police officers who intercepted the group of young people illegally crossing Taschenreau Boulevard. The officers drove her home.
But in the following days, the ad, created with his real data, offering his services was reposted twice. The victim therefore received text messages and emails from customers who wanted to pay her for sex.
Jérémy Corrigan even resuscitated her to ask her to go back to the motel or find her a boyfriend. She refused and eventually told the police everything.
Various attempts
The victim reported in a letter read in court that she had nightmares for a long time afterwards.
“I felt ashamed because I believed all events were my fault,” she wrote.
“I’ve lost my youth, my carelessness, my naivety about the world, my enthusiasm, in short, I’ve lost myself,” she added.
During the investigation, the police found that several other women, including minors, had also been offered prostitution. One had accepted and had to fulfill the wishes of two customers.
Jérémy Boulanger is serving a 26-month prison sentence, while his accomplice Jérémy Corrigan received a 42-month prison sentence. They will later go to jail when they return to court.
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