MIAMI, United States.- Alain Vandette, 59, a native of Montreal, Quebec, will hear his sentence next May on charges of sexual abuse, sexual interference and sexual exploitation of a minor, the judge announced on Tuesday. state court Alexandre Dalmau during sentencing arguments.
According to a report from Montreal GazetteVandette sexually abused, for years, a Cuban minor, daughter of the woman he married on the island.
The man, who pleaded guilty last year to sexual interference, solicitation of sexual touching, production of child pornography and possession of child pornography, was arrested in 2019 by Montreal police.
In Vandette’s computer, whom prosecutor Jérôme Laflamme is asking for a 15-year sentence, the authorities found more than 2,000 photographs and 546 videos of sexually abused children, including the daughter of the woman he married in Cuba. .
When Vandette pleaded guilty, she said she met the girl’s mother while she was in Cuba. She assured that she was having difficulty starting relationships with women in Québec, and that when she met the Cuban she was living in poverty, since she made 50 cents a day cleaning the toilets at a gas station.
During the trial it was learned that the man built a house for the woman in Cuba, “he bought her a pig because she had nothing to eat, and her daughter had no toys at all when they met.”
The minor, 13 years old when Vandette was arrested, was at least seven years old when the abuse began, says the information from the Canadian media. The girl’s mother is imprisoned in Cuba for consenting to the facts, she adds.
According to the defense attorney, Rodolphe Bourgeois, Vandette is very open to therapy. “He recognizes that he has a problem and he is working on it.”
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