Article from Quebec City newspaper Le Soleil: Meurtre dans un hôtel de Sainte-Foy: «Elle se pensait en sécurité»
https://www.lesoleil.com/actualite/...-photosvideo-a788cd2578bb46cf20cb8266278c6d03
Extracts:
- the victim (Marylène) knew that the perpetrator had a criminal record because of something involving his romantic partner; the friend with whom Marylène stayed most of the time while she worked in Quebec City in an erotic massage parlor about 2 days a week (she was from out of town, from Saguenay), did not know whether Marylène knew that the criminal record was for murder
Marylène said, according to her friend:
“ouais, il est un peu creepy. Il a fait de la prison à cause de [l’histoire avec] sa femme, une affaire de même. C’est sûr que ça me fait un peu peur. Mais c’est dans un hôtel en plein milieu de la ville...”
My translation: "Yes, the guy is a bit creepy. He was in prison because of his wife/romantic partner. Sure, that frightens me a bit. But it [the meeting] is in a hotel right in the middle of the city [hôtel Sépia]."
- it was the second time that Marylène had the creep as a client. The first time the creep had paid her $1300.
- To meet Marylène the second time, the creep had offered her $2000. Marylène's friend discussed with her whether it was prudent to see the creep a second time. Her friend felt that, in the end, it was the offer of $2000 that pushed Marylène to see the creep again.
- The creep had been banned from Marylène's massage parlor because of violent behavior towards other masseuses. Marylène usually did not see clients outside the massage parlor.
- Marylène had been working for 5 years in an erotic massage parlor. But she wanted to leave the métier, and was already working reduced hours (two days in two weeks).
Another article from Le Soleil: Meurtre dans un hôtel de Sainte-Foy: l'accusé présentait un risque de récidive «modéré»
https://www.lesoleil.com/actualite/...idive-modere-331f4ef4912c76c827fb00ab60316869
Here the reader learns that the authorities dealing with the conditional release of the presumed (and self-confessed) murderer of Marylène, named Gallese, had developed a strategy that allowed Gallese to see women but only to satisfy his sexual needs, and Gallese had to tell his minders about the women he was seeing.
It looks as if Gallese was judged too dangerous to have a normal romantic relationship with a woman, but that sex workers were judged to be satisfactory as guinea pigs to test whether Gallese could behave himself. How else to interpret what happened ?
This is how it looks like to Stella, an organization for and by sex workers based in Montreal [ http://chezstella.org/ ] :
Les travailleuses du sexe traitées comme des «sous-femmes»
https://www.lesoleil.com/actualite/...femmes-video-6d881a19287c9f11552ab85c2bf2142d
The article also quotes Mélodie Nelson, author, ex-escort and activist for the rights of sex workers:
"It's incomprehensible that a risk was perceived to exist and that one gave more importance to the satisfaction of the sexual needs of a potentially dangerous man than to the risks that sex workers would be exposed to. This was really done with the agreement of his correctional officer ... I don't know what to say. I find this truly horrible." "We are another category of women, subhuman. Here sex workers were used to protect the rest of the population."
What a shit show! I hope that the family of Marylène examines its legal options against this correctional officer and his/her employer.
Another article from Le Soleil about the circumstances of the murder, in 2004, that brought Gallese behind bars the first time: Meurtre à Sainte-Foy: un conjoint jaloux et contrôlant
https://www.lesoleil.com/actualite/...t-controlant-2b05510a4dbcda939d4ed9876e3ce612
https://www.lesoleil.com/actualite/...-photosvideo-a788cd2578bb46cf20cb8266278c6d03
Extracts:
- the victim (Marylène) knew that the perpetrator had a criminal record because of something involving his romantic partner; the friend with whom Marylène stayed most of the time while she worked in Quebec City in an erotic massage parlor about 2 days a week (she was from out of town, from Saguenay), did not know whether Marylène knew that the criminal record was for murder
Marylène said, according to her friend:
“ouais, il est un peu creepy. Il a fait de la prison à cause de [l’histoire avec] sa femme, une affaire de même. C’est sûr que ça me fait un peu peur. Mais c’est dans un hôtel en plein milieu de la ville...”
My translation: "Yes, the guy is a bit creepy. He was in prison because of his wife/romantic partner. Sure, that frightens me a bit. But it [the meeting] is in a hotel right in the middle of the city [hôtel Sépia]."
- it was the second time that Marylène had the creep as a client. The first time the creep had paid her $1300.
- To meet Marylène the second time, the creep had offered her $2000. Marylène's friend discussed with her whether it was prudent to see the creep a second time. Her friend felt that, in the end, it was the offer of $2000 that pushed Marylène to see the creep again.
- The creep had been banned from Marylène's massage parlor because of violent behavior towards other masseuses. Marylène usually did not see clients outside the massage parlor.
- Marylène had been working for 5 years in an erotic massage parlor. But she wanted to leave the métier, and was already working reduced hours (two days in two weeks).
Another article from Le Soleil: Meurtre dans un hôtel de Sainte-Foy: l'accusé présentait un risque de récidive «modéré»
https://www.lesoleil.com/actualite/...idive-modere-331f4ef4912c76c827fb00ab60316869
Here the reader learns that the authorities dealing with the conditional release of the presumed (and self-confessed) murderer of Marylène, named Gallese, had developed a strategy that allowed Gallese to see women but only to satisfy his sexual needs, and Gallese had to tell his minders about the women he was seeing.
It looks as if Gallese was judged too dangerous to have a normal romantic relationship with a woman, but that sex workers were judged to be satisfactory as guinea pigs to test whether Gallese could behave himself. How else to interpret what happened ?
This is how it looks like to Stella, an organization for and by sex workers based in Montreal [ http://chezstella.org/ ] :
Les travailleuses du sexe traitées comme des «sous-femmes»
https://www.lesoleil.com/actualite/...femmes-video-6d881a19287c9f11552ab85c2bf2142d
The article also quotes Mélodie Nelson, author, ex-escort and activist for the rights of sex workers:
"It's incomprehensible that a risk was perceived to exist and that one gave more importance to the satisfaction of the sexual needs of a potentially dangerous man than to the risks that sex workers would be exposed to. This was really done with the agreement of his correctional officer ... I don't know what to say. I find this truly horrible." "We are another category of women, subhuman. Here sex workers were used to protect the rest of the population."
What a shit show! I hope that the family of Marylène examines its legal options against this correctional officer and his/her employer.
Another article from Le Soleil about the circumstances of the murder, in 2004, that brought Gallese behind bars the first time: Meurtre à Sainte-Foy: un conjoint jaloux et contrôlant
https://www.lesoleil.com/actualite/...t-controlant-2b05510a4dbcda939d4ed9876e3ce612
