The three basketball coaches from Saint-Laurent high school who were arrested on Wednesday will be charged with, among other things, sexual assault and sexual touching in a position of authority, Thursday morning at the Montreal courthouse.
Posted at 10:08 a.m.
Daniel Lacasse, 43, head of the school’s basketball program, faces a sexual exploitation boss. He is accused of having “touched a part of the body” of a teenager in relation to whom he was “in a position of authority or trust”, between 1er September 2010 and April 10, 2012.
For his part, coach Xavier Boislard, 43, faces four counts of sexual contact, invitation to sexual contact, sexual assault and sexual exploitation.
According to the copy of the information obtained by The PressBoislard is indeed accused of having “touched a part of the body” of a victim under the age of 16 and of having committed a sexual assault between 1er September 2008 and April 11, 2010. Like Daniel Lacasse, Xavier Boislard is also accused of sexual exploitation for acts that allegedly occurred between April 2010 and December 2010, and of having “invited, engaged or incited” a minor victim ” to touch him” or to “touch a third party”.
Finally, the third coach, Robert Luu, 31, will be charged with sexual interference, invitation to sexual touching and sexual assault. In his case, the facts would have occurred more recently, between September 2014 and December 2017.
Other potential victims
The three men must appear before a judge Thursday morning at the Montreal courthouse. According to the police, there could be other victims in this file. According to our sources, the SPVM should also publish a press release on Thursday after the appearance of the three men and could take the opportunity to invite any other potential victim to come forward.
These arrests have caused a commotion since Wednesday among the 2000 students of this establishment, their parents, employees, management and the environment of this sport which is the pride of the school. The three men, in particular Daniel Lacasse, are known and highly respected in the world of school basketball, and the Saint-Laurent high school program has, for years, trained very good players, many of whom have been admitted to colleges or universities in the United States.
According to our information, the victims would be players or former basketball players from the school, minors at the time of the events, from disadvantaged or single-parent families, and whose ambitions were to be part of the elite of their sport.
With Daniel Renaud