Serial rapist Samuel Moderie, who tricked at least thirteen women on dating apps to drug them, sexually assault them and film the act while they were unconscious, pleaded guilty this Thursday to 24 charges which weighed against him.
The multiple attacks committed by the 28-year-old man were the subject of an appeal for potential victims by the SPVM, the Sûreté du Québec, the Régie intermunicipale de police de Richelieu–Saint-Laurent and the Saint-Laurent police department. -Jérôme, last February.
Many of the women he drugged with benzodiazepines (an anti-anxiety drug often sold under the name Xanax) had no memory of the assault. It was by viewing images recovered from Moderie’s cell phone and computer equipment that the investigators identified, then possibly contacted, some of his victims.
To date, two of the victims have still not been able to be identified by the police, and “Mr. Moderie did not collaborate in identifying them,” said the Crown prosecutor, Jérôme Laflamme, after the recording of the guilty plea.
Dressed in dark clothing, the accused was staring at the ground when Me Laflamme described at length what he called “sexual abuse” inflicted on his unconscious victims, including painful gestures to the genitals and humiliating sexual practices.
Moderie often used the same modus operandi : he obtained dates with women through dating applications Tinder, Badoo and JALF, then drugged them by hiding the substance in alcohol or food.
He usually assaulted them in their homes, staging scenes that he photographed and filmed with his phone while the women were unconscious.
At least one of the attacks occurred while the disabled child of one of the victims was in the home.
“Sadistic deviance”
Moderie was not his first attacks of this kind. He was sentenced in 2019 to two years in prison for repeated armed rapes and voyeurism against a victim close to him, whom he had also drugged with a sleeping pill and filmed during his attacks.
His parole report noted at the time that he posed an “above average risk of sexual recidivism” and that he had a “sadistic deviance of sexual interests”, but the Parole Board ruled that his release “will not represent an unacceptable risk to society”.
His “overconsumption of pornography fueled [ses] deviant fantasies” and favored “an objectification of women and deteriorated [sa] sexual morality,” the report noted.
Some of the sexual practices he favored during his attacks are very frequently depicted on free pornographic sites.
Pinned for a flight
One of Moderie’s victims, who we are prohibited from naming due to a court order, claims that he very clumsily tricked himself into stealing money from her. “While I was unconscious, he took my hand, unlocked my cell phone, and made an Interac transfer from my account,” said this woman.
“I am relieved, but above all I am looking forward to knowing his sentence,” reacted this woman, after learning of the guilty plea. I wish him a life sentence. He doesn’t deserve to get out of prison, but I know I’m dreaming in colors,” she commented.
“It’s a relief to know that he pleaded guilty,” reacted another of his victims. I was ready to go and testify in court, but I’m also happy to get away with it. Almost a year to the day after my attack, justice was served. »
Crown and Defense lawyers intend to ask Judge Pierre Dupras to order a psychiatric evaluation of Moderie, who has been detained since his arrest at the end of January 2023.
“These are crimes which have significant objective seriousness,” said Mr.e The flame. We will certainly ask for a significant detention sentence,” he added, without going further at this stage.