The father of the little girl from Granby once again tried to convince the Parole Board to let him out of prison, almost two years after his conviction.
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“Really starting from scratch, I am capable of doing that. But is it going to be easy? “It’s a question I won’t have the answer to until I’m confronted with it,” the 34-year-old said Thursday morning at his hearing before the Parole Board of Canada (Parole Board of Canada) .
He hopes to return to semi-release in a halfway house until his statutory release next May. He was sentenced to three and a half years in detention after pleading guilty to a reduced charge of false imprisonment in January 2022.
“He is an ultra-conformist individual, who does not take a single step wrong. We think it will be the same thing in a halfway house,” said his parole officer.
This is his second attempt to regain his freedom this year. In April, he failed to convince the Commission that he had progressed far enough to have the right to leave prison. The decision was confirmed by the Appeal Division of the PBC in September.
“I had work to do, I addressed it in psychological follow-up and with my parole officer,” said the man, whose identity is protected by a publication ban.
Little girl tied up
The man decided to tie up his own daughter using adhesive tape and a shirt tied like a straitjacket, on the night of April 28 to 29, 2019.
It was not until the next morning that he called 911, finding that his 7-year-old daughter was lying unconscious on the ground and was no longer breathing. She had succumbed to her injuries, she who was in a state of pitiable thinness.
“I failed in my task as a father. […] I didn’t know how to ask for help for myself, I didn’t realize how overwhelmed I was,” the victim’s father said during the hearing.
The commissioners will make their decision in writing within two weeks.
The family is against it
The victim’s family strongly opposed his release in a letter read before the Commission.
“We don’t know how he will act when he leaves, he is unpredictable,” said the little girl’s paternal grandmother.
The latter indicated that her son “does not realize all the harm he has done”.
“He was a monster. “It’s shameful to think that our son could have acted so vilely, so meanly towards his daughter,” she said.
The girl’s stepmother, who covered the victim’s mouth with duct tape to prevent her from screaming, was convicted of unpremeditated murder in December 2021. The 39-year-old woman was sentenced to prison in life without possibility of parole before 13 years.