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Marcel Lalonde

09 December 2008: Sex assault case delayed 

05 February 2002:  Ontario College of Teachers revoke Marcel Lalonde's certificates of qualification and registration

Indecent Assault Charges Laid After 1974 Sleep-Over

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November 12, 2008 — The charges were laid only last week in what Cornwall police say was an indecent assault which happened over 30 years ago. Sixty-year-old Marcel Lalonde of Cornwall was charged on Thursday after he allegedly inappropriately touched a 14-year-old boy during a sleep over back in 1974. The alleged incident was just recently reported to police. The suspect is due in court early next month.

Sex assault charge dates to the 1970s

     

Cornwall Standard Freeholder        

13 November 2008

Posted By MICHAEL PEELING

 

A convicted sex offender faces a charge of indecent assault against a teenage boy dating back to the 1970s.

 

Sixty-year-old Marcel Lalonde, a former schoolteacher in Cornwall, was arrested on the charge a week ago by Cornwall police after investigators found evidence the man allegedly touched a 14-year-old male.

 

 The assault reportedly took place in March of 1974 during a sleepover at a local residence.

Deputy Chief of Police Danny Aikman said the complainant contacted police to report the incident. 

 

 Lalonde was arrested on Nov. 6, charged and released to appear in court on Dec. 8.

The former teacher was convicted in the spring of 2001 on six counts of sexual assault against several of his students at Bishop MacDonell School.

 

The charges were based on incidents alleged to have occurred from 1971 to 1983.

    

 Out of a total of 14 charges, Lalonde was found not guilty of six others and another was stayed.

Lalonde was sentenced to two years custody to be served partially in jail and partially in the community.

 

(With staff files)

 Article ID# 1294377  

Comments on Freeholder Article.

Well what are we going to do with him this time give him a medal and release him in a play ground full of children, how about putting his picture on the front page so we will all know who he is. And I am sure the judge will set him free like all the others so he can join up with the other pedos in the area, maybe we could get him a front seat at the inquiry where he can sit and tell us lies like the rest are doing, maybe Claude will let him sit on his knee while telling us his side of the story. 

Reply | Report | Page Top Post #1 By what justice,

is this not a he said, he said case.Didnt a 22 year vetern policeman at the inquirey say when asked about this same senerio, if he would lay a charge and his answer was no.Well at lease the police got it right this time.{maybe some good is coming from this inquirey}let justice take care of this case,were it belongs 

Reply | Report | Page Top Post #2 By luckyred,

I remember the talk of the sleep overs, nothing particular just that they happened. Something else we avoided by our group of friends.  Another question is why was Marcel working at the CCVS reunion on the School premises. 

Reply | Report | Page Top Post #3 By itinerant, 

Cornwall teacher sentenced for sex abuse

CBC.CA News - full story

Last Updated Fri, 04 May 2001 20:57:00 EDT

CBC News

CORNWALL, ONT. - A school teacher in Cornwall, Ont., has been sentenced to two years less a day for sexually assaulting four of his former students.

Marcel Lalonde's sentence will be made up of 15 months in jail and nine months of house arrest. The 51-year-old was given two-for-one credit because he has already served 5½ months in custody. That means he will only remain in prison for four more months.

Six of seven complainants who testified during last fall's trial were members of his home-room class during the period of abuse.

The case is important because of a connection to an ongoing police investigation into widespread sexual abuse.

Judge Monique Metivier described the case as "an egregious breach of trust." The judge said sexual assault, especially against vulnerable teenage boys, is a violent crime.

And with that, an unrepentant Lalonde was sent back to jail.

The Lalonde case is important for a couple of reasons. It is a confirmation that sexual abuse did in fact occur in the community over a period of years, and it reveals a connection to a police investigation, code-named Project Truth.

A number of Lalonde's victims are complainants in a case involving a key figure in Project Truth. So far, more than 20 men have been charged, some of them prominent citizens in Cornwall.


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