Committing sexual touching when one has just obtained a conditional discharge for sexual assault shows an absence of remorse, believes a specialized psychologist, regarding engineer Simon Houle.
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Simon Houle’s file has caused a lot of ink to flow over the past few days. A woman accused him of grabbing her buttocks while traveling down south.
“Apparently, in this case, it [Simon Houle] is one of the people for whom the fact of having been found guilty or not, the contact with the criminal justice system was not enough to bring him to stop these gestures”, commented Franca Cortoni, psychologist specializing in aggression. sexual relations at the School of Criminology of the University of Montreal, in an interview with QUB radio, Tuesday.
The professor adds that having shown honesty in a therapy process does not solve all the problems.
“Admitting you’ve committed other sexual assaults doesn’t mean you won’t do it once more. It’s a remnant of the criminal system: it’s half-forgiven confessed wrongdoing, but not when it comes to sexual assault!”
Ditto for the arguments concerning the brevity of the sexual assault committed by Simon Houle in 2019.
“If someone stole a wallet in a second, is that less serious than if it took 10 seconds?” wondered Franca Cortoni.
