Mojoey posted about this and I just have to say ugh. From CBC:
The head of a defunct church in Montreal who claims to have married a 10-year-old girl has been found guilty of sexual assault.
Daniel Cormier, 56, was convicted by a judge in provincial court in Montreal Wednesday.
The self-declared pastor alleges he married the girl in 1999, when she was 10, although the girl — now 19 — has testified that she didn’t believe they were married at that time.
Cormier claims to have married the 10-year-old at a ceremony that took place at his obscure evangelical church in 1999.
He declared the union gave him the right to have sex with her. The girl said Cormier sexually assaulted her repeatedly until she was 13.
The girl was a former disciple of Cormier’s church, Église du centre-ville (Church of Downtown Montreal), which sought out marginalized people living on the streets or addicted to drugs.
It might have been a church with truly noble purposes, but this “pastor” is sick and twisted for getting sexually involved with in a minor under his protection. It’s a good thing other church members grew suspicious of the situation.
What a life for that kid. I can’t imagine what it must have been like.
December 21, 2009 at 9:15 am
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