For having sex with a 14-year-old girl in exchange for a vape or $50, then for having hosted her at his home, raped and drugged her while she ran away, a Quebec man received a five-year sentence of penitentiary. The girl was found after screaming for help through a window of the apartment.
The summary of the facts alleged against Erison Jimenez Gomez recounted in court on Friday is shocking. The individual admitted responsibility to charges of sexual contact with a person under the age of 16, obtaining sexual services from a minor and cocaine trafficking.
In the summer of 2023, a friend of Jimenez Gomez and the victim in the case chatted on Snapchat and agreed to have sex in exchange for a vape. An amount of $50 was then offered to the teenager so that she could have a relationship with the accused, who was then 23 years old.
Never did Gomez or Hector Burgos Luis check whether the young girl was old enough to consent to sexual relations.
Three days of hell
In the fall, the teenager contacted Jimenez Gomez again to tell him that she never got her $50 and that she would like him to buy her a vaping device. He then meets her near her high school and takes her with him to buy the item.
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The third contact between the young victim and the man occurred in November 2023, while she was on leave from the youth center where she was housed. The teenager then took her mother’s cell phone to contact Erison Jimenez Gomez, whom she only knew by the username “Eric Loop” on Snapchat, to come pick her up.
The latter picked her up in the middle of the night to bring her to his apartment, where she will ultimately be on the run for a period of three days.
The man will have between six and eight sexual relations with her, where he will make her perform actions that she had explicitly refused initially. Two of the relationships will also take place while the victim is handcuffed.
-Call for help
It was a civilian who finally contacted the police after observing at the window of an apartment building in Beauport “a child who seemed frightened” and who was shouting to call the police.
When authorities arrived, they found the teenager in shock and heavily intoxicated. Jimenez Gomez also made her dye her hair, in addition to telling her that she would be his lover.
In a letter read by the prosecutor in the M filee Mélanie Tremblay, the victim and her mother testified to the nightmares, panic attacks and post-traumatic shock that have afflicted the young woman ever since. “It will not be easy to erase the memory of these three days in November 2023.”
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Judge Julie Roy accepted the common suggestion of the parties and imposed a five-year penitentiary sentence on Erison Jimenez Gomez. The offender had no criminal record before Friday.
“There was a great exploitation of the vulnerability of this young person,” underlined the magistrate.
It should be noted that the accomplice, Hector Burgos Luis, also faces sexual charges. His case will return to court in February.
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