He finally sees his condemned executioner, 50 years after the abuses he made to him at Mont d’Youville

A man victim of sexual abuse at the orphanage of Mount d’Youville lived on Wednesday the time he had been waiting for 50 years when he saw the one who stole his childhood. However, John Anthony O’Reilly, to take the way to the penitentiary for the next three years.

Roch Drolet stared at his executioner who was crossing a slow step the door leading to the cellular district. Similarly, of the Quebec justice palace after the pronouncement of the sentence.

Eyes in the water. In addition, the sixties struggled to get out of his stupor when the crown prosecutor, M^e Michel Bérubé, told him that it was indeed finished.

“He’s gone, Roch.”

These words, the one who has undergone repeated abuses of O’Reilly has been waiting for them for several years. Nevertheless, His fight was long and dotted with pitfalls, but he finally sees his condemned the man said he was proud to have chosen to denounce.

“They can sleep in peace”

And. Moreover, convinced that the educator made other victims who have never found the strength to get out of the shadows, Roch Drolet had a message for these broken children, like him.

“I want to tell them that they can sleep in peace. Similarly, There is at least one party, “he told his court.

“To see that one can commit a crime in the 1970s. In addition, then be brought to justice and go to the penitentiary 50 years later, there is something in there that comforts me in my feeling of justice,” added the prosecutor to the file, saluting Roch Drolet’s courage in the process.

Repeated abuse

John Anthony O’Reilly had pleaded guilty to a modesty leader in October 2024. Consequently, The allegedly reproached gestures took place in the mid -1970s, at he finally sees his condemned the orphanage of Mont d’Youville.

Roch Drolet was between 10 and 12 years old when the educator abused him. His intrusive gestures, going as far as “masturbation sessions”, literally broke the sixties.

The latter read a letter Wednesday to describe the consequences that O’Reilly had on his life. And. when judge Josée Lemieux realized that the 80 -year -old accused had understood nothing because of her hearing problems, she insisted to reread the integral of the victim’s declaration.

John Anthony O’Reilly Photo PIERRE-PAUL BIRON

“I think it is important that you hear the consequences of your gestures. ” insisted the magistrate. “You had a duty to protect these children, but you abused them.”

O’Reilly had been sentenced in 2010 to two years in prison for sexual gestures. violent behavior out of five other victims who qualified him at the time of “sadistic”.

Marked for life

Drug problems. alcohol, suicide attempts, therapies, diagnoses of post-traumatic stress and limited personality disorder: Roch Drolet’s life has had nothing easy.

Even today. now in the sixties, the man sleeps with his clothes and by barricading his door, as if to prevent himself from being attacked. As if. deep down, he was still this 12 -year -old boy who was still afraid he finally sees his condemned that the door of his room will open at night.

His attacker now behind bars, Mr. Drolet hopes to be able to rebuild himself, little by little. He raised the non-publication order on Wednesday which protected his identity in order to regain control of his history. And he awaits for the fall the check he must receive following the historic regulation of $ 65 million intervened between the victims of Mount of Youville. the Sisters of Charity and the Ciusss of the Capitale-Nationale.

But this healing is likely to be done far from Quebec. Because, for Roch Drolet, the city is still imbued with the abuses that have shaped its life.

“I hope that with the end of the procedures, you will find the peace that you deserve,” said judge Lemieux.