A Bathurst man convicted of sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl and deemed a high risk to reoffend has been denied day parole. Steven Laurette, 45, applied for parole after serving 16 months of a seven-year sentence.
Board says Steven Laurette hasn’t done anything to address his ‘sexual offending’ and is likely to reoffend
Mia Urquhart · CBC News
· Posted: Oct 29, 2024 11:15 AM EDT | Last Updated: 9 hours ago
Steven Laurette, seen here in his Facebook profile picture, was sentenced in 2023 to seven years in prison for sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl. (Steven Laurette/Facebook)
A Bathurst man convicted of sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl and deemed a high risk to reoffend has been denied day parole.
Steven Laurette, 45, applied for parole after serving 16 months of a seven-year sentence.
During the trial in 2023, the court heard that Laurette, of South Tetagouche in the Bathurst area, was in a position of authority over the victim and took advantage of her troubled relationship with her father.
According to a Parole Board of Canada decision this month, Laurette supplied the girl with drugs and alcohol and “groomed” her before having “several sexual encounters” with her.
While awaiting trial on the charge, Laurette used another inmate’s account — so under someone else’s name — to phone the girl and tell her not to testify in court or she “would regret it.”
In its decision,
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