A repeat offender from Bas-Saint-Laurent is once again found guilty of sexual assault on a person in a vulnerable position, this time on a heavily intoxicated woman he was hosting in his home.
Pascal Malenfant, a 48-year-old man living near Rivière-du-Loup, tried to convince the judge that his victim had made advances towards him and that their sexual relationship had been consensual.
“The court concludes that the accused is not reliable or trustworthy,” declared the Honorable Martin Gagnon. Much of his version of material facts is either implausible, unreasonable or contradicted by the totality of the evidence. In addition, he adjusts his version throughout his testimony. »
His version of the facts was therefore rejected.
He claimed that the victim had made advances towards him, declared love and initiated sexual contact.
Pascal Malenfant was found guilty of sexual assault on October 25, 2024. Photo taken from his Facebook page
Facebook profile of Malenfant Pascal
While sleeping
She was already drunk and frozen when she arrived at the home of Mr. Malenfant and his partner in January 2023 and only retains “fragmented memories of that evening”.
After they had all consumed drugs and alcohol, the partner went to bed, leaving the two partygoers to continue using.
During the evening, the victim was invited to sleep in a guest room since she was too intoxicated to return home. On her way to this room, “she staggers”.
She wakes up later, “naked and semi-conscious.”
“She is lying on the bed, and the accused is on top of her. He growls. She tries to push him away, but he holds her back,” we read in the judgment. Then he abuses her. “It’s painful,” notes the judge.
For the next three or four days, “she felt pain on each side and inside her vagina and in her back.”
Reasonable doubt
The attacker not having been deemed credible, a reasonable doubt was not sown in the judge’s head, which is enough to render a guilty verdict.
Especially since those of his victim and his partner confirmed the advanced state of intoxication of the first.
Pascal Malenfant will hear his sentence in 2025.
Not his first attack
In 2018, he was found guilty of sexually abusing the daughter of a previous partner while in a position of authority.
The young victim, aged 26 at the time, lived with an “intellectual delay placing her at a mental age of 10 years.
This judgment reveals that he himself had been abused by a great-uncle as a child and that he confused the terms “love, affection and sexuality since he [semblait] seek in sexuality the love and affection that he did not receive” in childhood.
A sexologist had assessed the risk of sexual recidivism as being “below the average for offenders in the same category”.
He was sentenced to 9 months of incarceration.
