A Montrealer who impregnated his own intellectually disabled daughter has just been convicted on all counts, despite his denials and his attempt to blame one of his children.
“The theory that one of the accused’s sons is the father [de l’enfant] is implausible, it is pure speculation. It was the accused who made her pregnant [sa fille] during sexual intercourse,” judge André Perreault ruled on Monday at the Montreal courthouse.
The 52-year-old defendant, who cannot be named in order to protect the identity of the victim, had committed his crime in 2015, when his 20-year-old daughter, who was experiencing many difficulties, moved in with him.
“The relationship was friendly, she considered him a friend,” explained the magistrate.
However, during this year of living together, the unworthy father did not hesitate to take advantage of his daughter. According to her, sex was weekly and sometimes forced.
“She felt obligated,” the judge explained.
According to the victim, the father would have made several threats to her, for example by mentioning that he was going to “kill her and throw her in the trash”, or by assuring that he was going to “have her raped by guys”.
The young woman finally became pregnant. She aborted, but the doctors took samples from the fetus which made it possible to determine that the parent was the victim’s own father.
At trial, the accused tried to get out of it by attacking the definition of incest. Then, he swore that it was his daughter who had “initiated” the acts, only to say that there had never been any full relations.
At one point, he even tried to raise doubts regarding the DNA test, saying that it might have been his own son who had attacked his daughter.
All these assertions, however, did not convince the judge. After reviewing all of the evidence, he concluded that the accused had indeed committed the crime of incest.
The unworthy father, who is out on bail, will return to court within the next few months for oral arguments on his sentencing. In the meantime, a psychiatric report and another, sexological, will be produced.
