A Canadian man who described himself as a pastor was sentenced Monday to five years in prison for sexually assaulting a 10-year-old girl he claims was his wife.
Daniel Cormier, 57, was convicted in October after members of the now-defunct Church of Downtown Montreal became suspicious of his relationship with the girl. Cormier, who led the church, has maintained he did nothing wrong when he married the girl, then 10 years old, in 1999 during a ceremony at his church.
"I would say that there's no remorse," prosecutor Anne-Andree Charette said outside the courtroom. "He just tried to find justifications." The girl, now 19, testified she was too young to grasp the concept of marriage but said she remembered the sexual abuse in vivid detail.
Cormier is currently on trial in another case where he is accused of sexually assaulting a 16-year-old girl — also during his time as a pastor.
He denies the accusation.
Well well well, it's almost become "not news worthy" when one of these con-men abuses their position of trust to abuse a child. It's almost as if we have come to expect these people to have some kind of sexual depravity, or at least a sex life contradictory to what they preach to others
well, well, well (as the previous writer said) - other Pastors besides Catholic Priests have finally come to the forefront. To read the news and editorials in the past, one would think only C Priests were capable of such despicable acts. A child abuser is a child abuser, is a child abuser - he can be found anywhere.
ReplyDeleteIsn't marrying ten year old girls more of a Muslim and Hindu thing?
ReplyDeleteMaybe he was having a conflict of faith.