The Sûreté du Québec (SQ) arrested last Friday Kevin Parent, a 32-year-old professor who allegedly committed crimes of a sexual nature for more than ten years, in Lachute, Saint-Jérôme and Laval. He could have caused other victims.
The 32-year-old man was arrested on December 15 by the Gatineau Major Crimes Investigation Division of the Sûreté du Québec. He appeared the same day at the Saint-Jérôme courthouse. He faces charges of sexual contact, incitement to sexual contact and luring while he was in a position of authority over victims, some of whom were minors at the time of the events, the SQ said in a press release.
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Kevin Parent
According to information from Montreal Journal, Kevin Parent was a secondary school social studies teacher at the Lavigne high school, in Lachute, in the Laurentians. He was also a basketball coach.
The crimes for which he is accused were allegedly committed from 2012 to 2023, over a period of more than ten years.
Active on Facebook, Messenger and TikTok applications, Mr. Parent could have caused other victims, estimates the SQ.
Moreover, given the number of victims, the structure for managing investigations into serial crimes (GECS), coordinated by the Sûreté du Québec, was deployed. “This is a unified command structure in which Quebec police services work in partnership to quickly identify and arrest crimes committed by predators,” the press release reads. of the SQ.
Anyone with information can contact the Criminal Information Center of the Sûreté du Québec at 1 800 659-4264, confidentially.