FREDERIC SERRE
The 1510 West

A Montreal woman who was the mastermind of a violent attack and robbery of a man in the parking lot of a Pierrefonds marina in 2021 finally learned her sentence last week when she appeared before a Quebec Court judge at the Montreal courthouse.

Emmanuella Boateng-Kwaning, 22, was found guilty by Judge Flavia Longo of complicity to commit a robbery and assault in connection with the attack of a man on Dec. 24, 2021, she had met online who had answered her request to find a “sugar daddy.” The pair had agreed to meet in the parking lot, with the man agreeing to pay her $6,000 in cash. Instead, two men pulled up in a white SUV and beat the victim before robbing him of his money and fleeing with Boateng-Kwaning. The attack left the victim with severe facial injuries.

Boateng-Kwaning was 19 years old and working at a Tim Hortons at Pierre Trudeau Airport in Dorval when she placed a notice on her Instagram account in December 2021 looking for a sugar daddy. She and the victim communicated several times, and on Dec. 20 agreed to set up a time and place to meet, with Boateng-Kwaning telling the man to bring $6,000 in cash. The victim told the court that the cash was a Christmas gift from his brothers and sisters.

Judge Longo said police were able to find text messages in Boateng-Kwaning’s phone with one of the assailants which clearly showed a planned attack. The assailant was only identified as Boateng-Kwaning’s ex-boyfriend.

“Make sur (sic) that the door (of the car) is unlocked and that the money is in his pocket,” the ex-boyfriend wrote to Boateng-Kwaning on Dec. 24, 2021, Longo said in her judgment.

According to Longo, Boateng-Kwaning got into the victim’s car and the pair drove to a marina in Pierrefonds, where the man gave her $6,000 in cash. At that moment, a white SUV pulled up and two men got out. One assailant opened the driver’s door while the other man assaulted the victim with pepper spray and pulled him out of the car, before both attackers beat the victim.

Police said the trio fled in the SUV with the victim’s money, leaving the severely injured man lying on the ground next to his car. He was sent to hospital with a fractured jaw and facial lacerations.

Longo sentenced Boateng-Kwaning to 240 hours of community service and ordered her to pay back $2,000 to the victim. She will also be on probation for three years. Longo said she took note of Boateng-Kwaning’s remorse and that she is a single mother who is easily influenced due to her immaturity.