The trial opened Tuesday morning for a Granby area man facing approximately fifteen counts of sexual and physical abuse for allegedly abusing two little girls.
The alleged executioner, a 68-year-old man who cannot be named to protect the identity of the complainants, is said to have committed the crimes he is accused of between 1979 and 1995 in Bécancour, Cowansville and Dunham.
The first of the two alleged victims testified from another room. This is his daughter-in-law. She was barely two years old when her mother married the defendant. She claimed she was abused by her stepfather until she was a teenager.
As far as she could remember, the complainant described with a certain degree of confidence the repeated touching and sexual assaults of which she said she had been the victim.
It portrays the defendant as a monster who punished him for everything and everyone. “He made me kneel on the stones in front of the wood stove until I couldn’t do it anymore, sometimes my knees would bleed,” said the woman, now in her 40s.
“Several times he hung me on a hook next to my clothes, suffocating me until I turned blue and couldn’t breathe.”
“One time he was so angry, I must have been 4 or 5, that he hung me naked, tied my hands to a hook, and whipped me with his belt.”
This abuse was inflicted on her with the full knowledge of her birth mother, she emphasized.
“When I disobeyed him, he punished me by locking me in closets or closets […]. “I remember one occasion when he let me watch him beat my dog to death after hanging him on a chain in the garage,” she said.
The defendant is said to have repeated the same deviant behavior with his sister, his own biological daughter, who was several years younger than him. She is scheduled to testify on Wednesday.
The prosecutor Me Arianne Duval wanted to highlight the courage of the two women who lived with their difficult and painful secret for almost thirty years before finally deciding to file a complaint in May 2022
As horrific as the story may seem, let us emphasize that the crimes of which the man is accused must be proven in court.