“I bought her in Africa and made her my sex slave”: they condemned the “monster of Canada” who subjected a girl for years

A 60-year-old Canadian, Sylvain Villemaire, was sentenced on Wednesday to 18 years in prison for “buy ”in Africa to an 8-year-old girl and make her his sex slave for 3 years in Canada.

As established by justice, Villemaire, a expsicopedagogo specializing in the treatment of at-risk youth, convinced the baby’s mother that she would have a better life and a good education in Canada. He first married the woman in Ivory Coast and paid her money to bring the girl to Canada in 2015.

For three years, the young girl became Villemaire’s sex slave until in 2018, the Montreal police discovered the case while they were investigating access to child pornography from there. building in which they lived.

The officers are surprised at Villemaire’s degree of perversion. On your computer, in addition to more than 8000 photos and 95 videos of child abuse, they found a “Contract” signed by the little girl who said: “I accept that Sylvain Villemaire can do what he wants with me, when he wants and as he wants.”

In addition, he stipulated that he could never tell anyone what he had done to him, nor testify against him.

According to the young girl’s statement to the police, since arriving in Montreal, Villemaire has shown her child pornography and raped her regularly. He also threatened to send her back to her home country if she did not obey him.

Villemaire was sentenced in February this year for various sexual offenses, as well as for human trafficking and the distribution of child pornography.

When the sentence was read, the judge, Pierre Labelle, stressed that the little girl was “bought, sacrificed and abandoned” by everyone and that the treatment she suffered was “slavery” for become a “puppet” of Villemaire.

Sylvain Villemaire ignores the seriousness of his actions, according to the court. The man even claimed to have “a relationship of trust” with his victim. “This testifies to an inability to introspect, to inability to empathize, if not cognitive distortion, ”said the judge.

The educational psychologist, who made his own defense in court, said he was a “good person” and requested a two-year sentence for himself. He also said he wanted to stay involved in his victim’s life after he was released from prison, so the judge said Villemaire is filing a complaint. “High risk of recurrence”.

Villemaire was sentenced to 18 years in prison, “one of the most severe sentences ever handed down in Quebec in a child abuse case“, according to Radio-Canada.

However, with the time already purged, only must be 13 years old again. But the prosecution has demanded that Villemaire be declared a dangerous criminal, which could increase the sentence and give him strict control for up to 10 years when he has served his sentence.

As for the victim, now 14, the judge said that “it is clear that he begins his life with a very heavy burden, a burden that was only placed on his shoulders by the actions of the offender “and wished him” courage “.