Fourteen months after he pleaded guilty to a reduced charge of illegally detaining his seven-year-old daughter, who died in disturbing circumstances in Granby, the father will appear before Canada’s Parole Board this Friday, TVA Nouvelles has learned.
The 33-year-old, who cannot be identified to protect the identity of the young victim, was sentenced to four years in prison in January 2022.
Having been held for three months after his arrest in 2019, he will have served a third of his sentence by March 8, giving him the right to parole.
The little girl’s grandmother and mother of the accused feels she has been the victim of injustice again.
“It’s laughing at the little girl who died, it’s downright insulting and there’s no justice,” she said. “There’s nothing fair about this file.”
It was not until Tuesday that the woman was informed that the hearing would take place in two days.
“He had told us that if anything changed in the file, they would keep us informed,” she explains in an interview with our journalist Jean-François Desbiens.
He is denied the right to attend and testify because his name is not listed as a victim in the Commission’s register.
The girl’s birth mother would be in the case, confided the shattered and shocked grandmother.
“The mother is just as shocked as we are,” explains the grandmother. “We are all in shock.”
Recall that the little girl, covered from head to toe in duct tape, died of asphyxiation in a horror story that sparked the outrage across Quebec in April 2019.
The child’s stepmother, who was found guilty of second-degree murder, was sentenced to life in prison with no possibility of parole for 13 years.
At the conclusion of the trial, the Chief of Criminal and Prosecution decided to drop the criminal negligence resulting in death charges against the father in exchange for a guilty plea to compulsory arrest.
This decision had caused an outcry from the accused’s family and the little girl’s loved ones because the mother-in-law’s trial had shown and proved that the idea of duct tape binding the little victim was valid after she fled in the night was, that was the father.