A 22-year-old sex offender from Saint-Apollinaire at high risk of recidivism will receive a six-year prison sentence for harassing and luring 14 teenage girls aged 12 to 15 over the internet.
Despite his young age, Gabriel Lachance has a very disturbing criminal history in terms of luring and harassment. From 2017, the young man who had just passed into adulthood was the subject of a denunciation by several plaintiffs.
A total of 14 teenage girls were victims of Gabriel Lachance who lured them into communicating directly with them on social media. The defendant quickly admitted to sending images of him masturbating or requesting explicit images of his victims under threat.
Psychiatric expertise
Attorneys for the prosecution and defense have agreed to a six-year sentence for the 22-year-old defendant. Sentence which should be ratified by Judge Alain Moran.
But given the repetitive behavior of the accused, a psychiatric expertise had been requested. Dr. Louis Morrissette therefore met Gabriel Lachance and established that he was in the 99th percentile of people at risk of recidivism.
“When we talk about just one in 100 rating higher than him, it’s very, very worrying,” said prosecutor Laura Plamondon-Dufour.
For this reason, and given that the young accused has not begun any journey since his incarceration three years ago, Me Plamondon-Dufour requests that the accused be subject to a long-term supervision order for 10 years against six years for the defense.
Judge Moran will take the decision under advisement.
