A single father is accused of beating his eight-year-old daughter with fists and a plastic pipe because she did not complete the letters of apology he demanded to repent of thefts committed at the school.
Particular scene, Wednesday, at the courthouse when a father who defends himself without a lawyer for armed assault committed on his daughter came to completely contradict the version of the child.
It was only the second time that the little girl had seen her father since the events of December 2020, she who had already lost her mother in a car accident.
At that time, the father, who cannot be named to protect the identity of the victim, had a meeting with the management of the Val-Bélair school in connection with a dispute between children.
However, during this meeting, the accused had learned that his child had committed thefts and told lies.
Obviously upset by his daughter’s actions, the 42-year-old allegedly demanded that the second-year student take a series of “restorative gestures”, such as writing three letters to the school’s stakeholders, an apology speeches in front of the whole class and the presentation of a privilege gift offered by the teacher.
plastic stick
On December 16, 2020, when the students were celebrating the last day of school and the child still had not finished his apology letters, the father allegedly woke up his daughter in the early morning by hitting her with a long plastic stick. one meter.
The accused also allegedly punched his daughter twice in the nose and in the mouth, in addition to slapping her behind the head.
“The slaps on the back of the head, he gave me so much that it doesn’t even hurt me anymore”, reported the victim to the investigator who collected his testimony.
It was the child’s teacher, “troubled” by a red sore on the girl’s nose, who alerted the school management and then the DPJ.
In a video testimony with the investigator, the child, verbomotor, had said: “I am happy not to go to dad”.
Asked about the punches in the face that made her lip swell, she replies candidly: “My tooth is strong, it hasn’t fallen out.”
Hurt with the dictionary?
For his part, the 42-year-old defendant told a totally different story to his daughter’s, saying he had never touched her.
“Violence, I do not condone that,” he testified before the judge.
He claimed that no traces of violence were visible on his daughter’s face when he left her at school the morning of the event.
As the only explanation for the marks on his daughter’s face, the defendant said the victim may have injured herself with the dictionary when she consulted it to write her apology letters.
Cross-examination of the accused will begin Thursday morning.