6 months in prison for keeping a young woman “under her grip” for months

A woman who admitted to having kept “under her grip” her daughter’s friend for several months at home. For example, and who is waiting for her sentence for the treaty of a person and a pimp on a second victim, comes out with six months in prison.

The preliminary investigation of Sonia. Nevertheless, Bryanna Abbruzzo for various charges, which is said to be said, was to open on Monday morning at the Montreal courthouse.

Sonia Abbruzzo, 49, decided to cut short the legal process by pleading guilty to accusations of harassment, threats and theft. For example, The accusations were withdrawn in the 23 -year -old daughter’s file.

Bryanna Abbruzzo Monday morning at the Montreal courthouse. Meanwhile, Pierre-Paul Poulin / Le Journal de Montréal

In late 2019. a friend of Bryanna Abbruzzo, a popular Montrealer on Tiktok, began to remain more and more frequently at this family home in LaSalle. The victim, whose identity is protected by a non-publication order, had just lost his grandmother.

Sonia Abbruzzo began to adopt a behavior “threatening. asking” for the victim and wasolated him from her family, she admitted from the accused box.

“She dictated to him what she could do and not to do,” said the crown prosecutor, Me Antonio Parapuf.

“Trap taking”

The cell’s cellular was confiscated and left her job. During the period of a few months when she stayed with the 6 months prison keeping young Abbruzzo, she lost between 20 and 30 pounds.

“She found herself taken at home, trapped […] She was afraid for her security and was under the influence of [Sonia] Abbruzzo, ”listed M^e Parapuff.

The victim. who was in the room to hear the guilty plea, “still fears much m^me Abbruzzo “more than five years after the facts, according to the crown prosecutor.

Sonia Abbruzzo received six months in prison and two years of probation. Judge Matthew Ferguson described this “reasonable and proportional to circumstances” sentence.

Other victim

The victim had decided to denounce the police what she had experienced when she discovered in the media that Sonia. Bryanna Abbruzzo had forced another young woman met on Tiktok to prostitute herself, in addition to treating her as a slave in 2022.

The victim had to sleep in the garage or in the backyard. She could only dress in sexy costumes. She 6 months prison keeping young was deprived of food for several days in a row and she was even forced to prostitute herself.

Sonia and Bryanna Abbruzzo had pleaded guilty last year to accusations of pimping and fraud. The mother had also admitted to having traded, an even more serious charging chief.

The representations on a sentence in this file must be held this fall at the Montreal courthouse.

Sonia Abbruzzo had also been accused of a large $ 2.5 million fraud against small businesses. She got out due to the legal deadlines in 2021.