{"id":923322,"date":"2026-10-06T23:14:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T23:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/923322\/"},"modified":"2026-10-06T23:14:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T23:14:09","slug":"lasalle-man-sentenced-to-7-year-prison-term-for-sexually-abusing-girls-decades-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/923322\/","title":{"rendered":"LaSalle man sentenced to 7-year prison term for sexually abusing girls decades ago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A man who admitted to sexually abusing three young girls decades ago in parts of the Montreal island like LaSalle and Dorval was sentenced Tuesday afternoon to a seven-year prison term.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI did some terrible things,\u201d Andrew Desrochers, 62, of LaSalle, said from a prisoners\u2019 dock at the Montreal courthouse when Quebec Court Judge Tristan Desjardins asked if he had anything to say before he delivered the sentence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThey were really bad and I now realize how immoral and bad they are. I regret that I caused emotional stress to the victims. I\u2019m sorry I did this. I beg for their forgiveness. Again, I am so sorry to the victims.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man who admitted to sexually abusing three young girls decades ago in parts of the Montreal island&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":923323,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194292],"tags":[49,48,2338],"class_list":["post-923322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-montreal","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-montreal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/923322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=923322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/923322\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/923323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=923322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=923322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=923322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}