MONTREAL â Five men from the Montreal suburb of Longueuil have been charged with a series of brutal sexual assaults over the past two years.
Longueuil police Const. Mark David said three girls, aged between 14 and 15, were abducted from bus shelters and taken to private homes or Montreal hotels.
“There would be one or more individuals there, and (the victims) would be forced to have sex with one or more of them,” David said.
Last week, police arrested Kwesi (Crispy) Renner, 28; Joseph Samuel Ogaus, 19; Shawn Faubert, 21; Jason Joseph Bailey, 21; and Bakari Blades, 27. The men face a total of 47 charges, including sexual assault, having sexual contact with a minor, forcing a person into prostitution, possessing child pornography, human trafficking and drug trafficking.
Three others are expected to face charges in the attacks, police said.

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… From what I understand, there would be one or more individuals there, and (the victims) would be forced to have sex with one or more of them,” David said.
Police are not saying how long the girls were held or whether they were drugged before or during the attacks.
The first of the women came forward in 2008, said David, igniting a two-year investigation dubbed Operation Saltimbanque.
“We have a unit devoted to sexual crimes of this type,” he said. “We kept an ongoing file, and two more victims showed up to write depositions.”
On Wednesday, police arrested Kwesi (Crispy) Renner, 28; Joseph Samuel Ogaus, 19; Shawn Faubert, 21; Jason Joseph Bailey, 21; and Bakari Blades, 27, in connection with the attacks. They face a total of 47 charges, including sexual assault, having sexual contact with a minor, forcing a person into prostitution, possessing child pornography, human trafficking and drug trafficking.

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… From what I understand, there would be one or more individuals there, and (the victims) would be forced to have sex with one or more of them,” David said.
Police are not saying how long the girls were held or whether they were drugged before or during the attacks.
The first of the women came forward in 2008, said David, igniting a two-year investigation dubbed Operation Saltimbanque.
“We have a unit devoted to sexual crimes of this type,” he said. “We kept an ongoing file, and two more victims showed up to write depositions.”
On Wednesday, police arrested Kwesi (Crispy) Renner, 28; Joseph Samuel Ogaus, 19; Shawn Faubert, 21; Jason Joseph Bailey, 21; and Bakari Blades, 27, in connection with the attacks. They face a total of 47 charges, including sexual assault, having sexual contact with a minor, forcing a person into prostitution, possessing child pornography, human trafficking and drug trafficking.

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Fiery Journal de Montreal columnist Richard Martineau even suggested the PQ wasn’t going far enough in defending Quebec’s identity.
His daily TV show, and column, have become a frequent platform for warnings about threats to Quebec’s language, secular identity, and principle of equality between men and women.
“What will it take to prove . . . to the rest of the world that the nationalist movement doesn’t advocate closure, just self-respect,” he wrote in a column last week.
“How many accommodations have to be made before we stop brandishing the spectre of racism?
“Will we have to open the doors of public schools to creationists? Ask the Bonhomme Carnaval to wear a kirpan? Tell us, Mr. Bouchard: What will it take to make you happy? Letting women in burqas work as strippers at Chez Paree?”

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Fiery Journal de Montreal columnist Richard Martineau even suggested the PQ wasn’t going far enough in defending Quebec’s identity.
His daily TV show, and column, have become a frequent platform for warnings about threats to Quebec’s language, secular identity, and principle of equality between men and women.
“What will it take to prove . . . to the rest of the world that the nationalist movement doesn’t advocate closure, just self-respect,” he wrote in a column last week.
“How many accommodations have to be made before we stop brandishing the spectre of racism?
“Will we have to open the doors of public schools to creationists? Ask the Bonhomme Carnaval to wear a kirpan? Tell us, Mr. Bouchard: What will it take to make you happy? Letting women in burqas work as strippers at Chez Paree?”

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Fiery Journal de Montreal columnist Richard Martineau even suggested the PQ wasn’t going far enough in defending Quebec’s identity.
His daily TV show, and column, have become a frequent platform for warnings about threats to Quebec’s language, secular identity, and principle of equality between men and women.
“What will it take to prove . . . to the rest of the world that the nationalist movement doesn’t advocate closure, just self-respect,” he wrote in a column last week.
“How many accommodations have to be made before we stop brandishing the spectre of racism?
“Will we have to open the doors of public schools to creationists? Ask the Bonhomme Carnaval to wear a kirpan? Tell us, Mr. Bouchard: What will it take to make you happy? Letting women in burqas work as strippers at Chez Paree?”

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Fiery Journal de Montreal columnist Richard Martineau even suggested the PQ wasn’t going far enough in defending Quebec’s identity.
His daily TV show, and column, have become a frequent platform for warnings about threats to Quebec’s language, secular identity, and principle of equality between men and women.
“What will it take to prove . . . to the rest of the world that the nationalist movement doesn’t advocate closure, just self-respect,” he wrote in a column last week.
“How many accommodations have to be made before we stop brandishing the spectre of racism?
“Will we have to open the doors of public schools to creationists? Ask the Bonhomme Carnaval to wear a kirpan? Tell us, Mr. Bouchard: What will it take to make you happy? Letting women in burqas work as strippers at Chez Paree?”

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… 2) Repetitively engaging in these sexual fantasies, urges, and behaviour in response to dysphoric mood states (e.g., anxiety, depression, boredom, irritability).
(3) Repetitively engaging in sexual fantasies, urges, and behaviour in response to stressful life events.
(4) Repetitive but unsuccessful efforts to control or significantly reduce these sexual fantasies, urges, and behaviour.
(5) Repetitively engaging in sexual behaviour while disregarding the risk for physical or emotional harm to self or others.
B. There is clinically significant personal distress or impairment in social, occupational or other important areas of functioning associated with the frequency and intensity of these sexual fantasies, urges, and behaviour.
C. These sexual fantasies, urges, and behaviour are not due to the direct physiological effect of an exogenous substance (e.g., a drug of abuse or a medication).
Specify if: masturbation, pornography, sexual behaviour with consenting adults, cybersex, telephone sex, strip clubs, or others.

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… More Images »  The Shaughnessy Village in Montrealhas one of the largest concentrations of historic homes in Montreal, but it’s a dump and it’s getting worse. Sammy Forcillo, the councillor for the area, pauses at the abandoned Seville Theatre on Feb. 17, 2010.Photograph by: Dave Sidaway, Montreal Gazette
MONTREAL – A derelict stretch of Ste. Catherine St. W. that includes the remnants of the Seville Theatre should be razed by its owner and turned into a green space until the company is ready to build on the site, the city councillor for the area says.
The carcass of the old theatre and the rest of the boarded-up block between Chomedey and Lambert Closse Sts. is like a magnet for drug-dealing, prostitution and graffiti, Sammy Forcillo, who was elected in November as councillor in the Peter-McGill district that covers western downtown, said this week while on a tour of the neighbourhood with The Gazette.

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… More Images »  The Shaughnessy Village in Montrealhas one of the largest concentrations of historic homes in Montreal, but it’s a dump and it’s getting worse. Sammy Forcillo, the councillor for the area, pauses at the abandoned Seville Theatre on Feb. 17, 2010.Photograph by: Dave Sidaway, Montreal Gazette
MONTREAL – A derelict stretch of Ste. Catherine St. W. that includes the remnants of the Seville Theatre should be razed by its owner and turned into a green space until the company is ready to build on the site, the city councillor for the area says.
The carcass of the old theatre and the rest of the boarded-up block between Chomedey and Lambert Closse Sts. is like a magnet for drug-dealing, prostitution and graffiti, Sammy Forcillo, who was elected in November as councillor in the Peter-McGill district that covers western downtown, said this week while on a tour of the neighbourhood with The Gazette.

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