After several hours of fruitless interrogation, which he describes as police abuse, SQ investigators presented the complainant’s disturbing statement to Dominique Laroche. “It was your sexual object,” the investigator then confronts him.
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Almost ten hours after the start of his interrogation and after repeating several times that he would not speak, the investigator of the Sûreté du Québec, who questioned Dominique Laroche on the day of his arrest, unpacks his game in front of the suspects.
First with a video of the complainant.
“She looks like a destroyed girl, a girl who is suffering,” emphasizes Sergeant Pierre-Luc Morin about the young woman in the defendant’s entourage, whose identity is protected. “That girl, the only thing she asks of you is to tell the truth.”
The police officer then insisted on reading the young woman’s statement to the defendant.
In the end, Laroche, who faced six sexual charges, did not back down.
But the allegations it contains, which obviously still have to be proven in court, are shocking.
“Sexual Object”
The alleged actions began in the winter when the young girl turned 13. First compliments, then touching her breasts and her body parts and masturbating in front of her.
It all culminated in a first full relationship.
“There was no foreplay. He came inside me. It did not last long. “He got up, said nothing and went to bed,” Sergeant Morin said, citing the statement from Laroche’s alleged victim.
The full relationship would have continued and the defendant would have told the teenager that it was “urgent for her to take the birth control pill.”
Then, in the winter of her 14th birthday, the anal penetration would have begun, followed by the first visits to what she calls “the sex room” in her statement. In the room there was a mattress on the floor and a closet full of sex toys, including items “that he had made himself.”
Dominique Laroche, at his home on June 3, 2021, the day after his police interrogation. Archive photo, Stevens LeBlanc
Laroche is said to have forced her to penetrate him, especially with these sex toys. The demands became more intense over time, with the defendant, according to the complainant, showing her videos “of what he wanted” so that the young girl would then imitate what she saw there.
“How can a 14-year-old girl make this up, Dominique,” Sergeant Morin asks several times during the suspect’s interrogation, which was presented in full two days ago as part of his request for a stay of proceedings.
“He was your sex object.”
According to the defense, unjustified imprisonment
Dominique Laroche’s lawyer, Me Stéphanie Pelletier-Quirion, argues in this application that the police could not detain her client for so long after his arrest on an arrest warrant for June 2, 2021.
Photo Stevens LeBlanc
The interrogation lasted eleven long hours, during which the man repeated about fifty times that he would not answer any questions about the matter. However, Laroche discusses many other everyday topics with the police officer.
“I would like to answer that for you. I would like to have a discussion. But I won’t have any,” insists Laroche, brushing aside the pretensions of the investigator, who finds him “cold” and distant.
“I’m not cold, I’m listening to my lawyer’s advice. That’s all.”
The hearing of the application will continue on Wednesday with the presentation of the police interrogation of Dominique Laroche and the remaining statements of the investigators involved. The defense wants to argue that their intransigence on the day of the arrest was contrary to the Charter of Rights and Freedoms in order to clear Laroche of the charges against him.
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