A 79-yr-old father, Jacques Lesage, who was in Canada convicted
of raping two of his daughters for decades and impregnated one of them three
times has revealed he too was the product of incest.
Lesage was convicted of sexually abusing his daughters
Lucie, 53, and Nathalie, 49, in Quebec over a period of 32 years. The sisters
asked to be named publicly during court proceedings to ensure their father was
brought to justice.
Their other sister, Chantal Knippenberg, also says she
was abused by their father but he was found not guilty of assaulting
her. He faces two other charges relating to the sexual abuse of an unnamed
minor.
On Tuesday Lesage told a court that he was born out of
incest himself and that his mother was also his sister. He said his wife
was also abused by her carers and that the pair married when she was 13 to
rescue her from them.
Lesage, a father-of-eight, said he was sexually assaulted by
his father and later by carers at a Catholic orphanage, CBC reports.
He fathered three children with his own daughter Lucie, the
eldest of which is severely disabled and requires round-the-clock care. She had
their first child when she was just 13.
Prosecutors earlier told how he plied the girls with spiked orange juice before raping them in the family's home, car and in motel rooms. He picked them up from school at lunchtimes just to have sex with them before sending them back for afternoon classes, they said.
Pleading for a lenient sentence on Friday, he told the court
that he had had his genitals removed to stop the spread of cancer, suggesting
he was no longer a threat.
He admitted raping Lucie after DNA tests proved her three
children were his but said he thought she was not his biological daughter at
the time of the abuse, claiming to have thought his wife was having an affair
with another man who was her real father.
The man, who prosecutors described as 'manipulating' during
the trial, denies ever laying a finger on his other two accusing daughters.
During the trial, Lucie Lesage told jurors that her father would 'go to hell' and how his abuse had left her unable to have romantic relationships.
Nathalie, her younger sister, said tearfully: 'All I've
known is sexual abuse.'
She revealed that she kept the abuse a secret for years
because she thought her father's friends at the police department wouldn't
believe her. At the age of 16, she moved out to live with an older sibling
after threatening to shoot her father if he ever touched her again.
Both of the sisters say they suffer from post traumatic
stress disorder as a result of their father's abuse and are depressed.
Lucie Lesage told police about the allegations in 2014. She
told them how she'd been abused by him over 32 years and that the assaults began
when she was just eight.
Knippenberg said she had lived in fear of her father her
entire life and that he ruined her childhood. She said she loved him but what
he had done was 'wrong.'
Lesage's lawyer says he should be sentenced to just seven
years imprisonment after already serving two years behind bars awaiting
trial.
Prosecutors are asking that he be sentenced to 22 years.
Lesage is due to be sentenced on Friday.
Source: Daily Mail UK
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