Express_2011_04_29

“Two years of hell are over:” Social workers acquitted

accusations were prompted by disputes

and Patrick Labrèche were acquitted

mischief.

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with colleagues at the group home that

last week of assault charges that were

Dominic Laviolette, then 35, faced

R OCKLAND

is administered by Integra for Children

laid in June, 2009.

four counts of assault and sexual

and Adults of Prescott-Russell.

The two social workers from

exploitation.

During the trial, Laviolette was

Hawkesbury were charged with

The charges were laid by the Russell

“We have lived through two years of

described as a caring person who treated

assaulting three mentally challenged

County Ontario Provincial Police

hell,” says Dominic Laviolette after he

one client “as if she was his own

adults at a Rockland residence.

detachment after investigating

daughter.”

But a judge in L’Orignal found the

allegations that two social workers had

In 2009, Patrick Labrèche, then 24,

men not guilty of all charges, concluding

verbally, mentally and physically

Man charged

was charged with three counts of

that the case against them was

assaulted three clients in their care

assault, sexual exploitation and

“extremely weak.” Both men say the

between April, 2008 and April 2009.

with possession

of stolen

property

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A 38-year-old North Glengarry man

has been charged with possession of

stolen property following an investigation

into the theft of two farm tractors in The

Nation two years ago.

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Gabriel Ranger, of 894 Skye Road, is

scheduled to appear in Alexandria court

today.

May 11 to face the charges that were laid as

a result of an Ontario Provincial

Police investigation into the theft of a

tractors in May and June of 2009.

Police say that during a raid on a Skye

Road property, officers found the two

tractors as well as a motorcycle that had

been stolen in Champlain Township also

in 2009. The value of the recovered items

is between $70,000 and $80,000.

The property was recovered April 8

when a search warrant was executed by

members of the Ontario Provincial Police

and the Hawkesbury O.P.P. Property Crime

Unit, at 894 Skye Road.

A 1996 Case Tractor, model 5240, had

been stolen from a County Road 22 property

in The Nation Township in May, 2009.

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had been stolen from a farm on St-Isidore

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2009.

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Eric Edward Sikala, 20, was also charged

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to appear in L’Orignal court May 11. She

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spokesman, Constable Pierre Dubois.

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