Published August 16, 2024

By Chelsey St-Pierre
The Suburban

A 50-year old man who pled guilty and was convicted of production and possession of child pornography and voyeurism was sentenced to two and a half years in prison for secretly filming his daughter, her friends and his wife at their Vaudreuil-Dorion home.

A publication ban was placed on the name of the accused at the Salaberry-de-Valleyfield courthouse in order to protect the identity of the victims, with the youngest discovered on the seized footage being only nine years old at the time. The man, with no prior criminal record, was known as a respected and trusted family man and “the fun dad,” according to the testimony of one of the nine identified victims. “We could not imagine that meanwhile (appearing to be that person), you were installing cameras to see us going to the toilet, changing and taking our showers,” she stated to the court at sentencing.

The actions of the convicted man went on for six years. He filmed his wife unknowingly in their bedroom having sex and his daughter and her friends in the bathroom while appearing, according to the victims of his crimes, as a normal and even very likeable family man.

A USB stick originally discovered in the garage of the family unit by the man’s daughter and her friend last spring revealed this disturbing side of the “family man”.

The footage on the originally discovered USB stick revealed clips captured by hidden cameras in the bathrooms of the family unit between 2015 and 2021.

Quebec Provincial Police (SQ) arrested the defendant at his home shortly after the footage was discovered by the two girls. He remained detained until the trial and will serve out the remaining two years of his sentence.

The convicted man is banned from being in the presence of minors for 10 years following his release and will remain on the sex offender registry for 20 years. He is also banned from internet access or social media networks for 10 years.

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