Man who harassed Concordia student gets two-year community sentence

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A person who pleaded responsible this month to the prison harassment of a Concordia College pupil acquired a sentence Wednesday supposed to permit him to observe therapy for his psychological well being issues.

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When Adamo Bono, 41, harassed Concordia PhD candidate Anastasia Boldireff throughout October 2019, he was nonetheless topic to circumstances that had been a part of a case by which he was discovered not criminally chargeable for his actions. On Oct. 1, 2016, he pressured a lady right into a wooded space and sexually assaulted her, after approaching her on a metropolis bus because it travelled alongside Van Horne Ave.

Lower than a yr after he was declared not criminally accountable, Bono approached Boldireff at Ste-Catherine and Man Sts., and instructed her he appreciated her garments and her smile. She ignored him and walked away, however he adopted her and requested her out. When Boldireff rejected Bono, he replied: “How can we make that no a sure?” She then instructed Bono she was not all in favour of him.

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Lower than two weeks later, Boldireff was at a café when she observed Bono was watching her from exterior. He instructed her he wouldn’t let her go away till she gave him her telephone quantity and that he wouldn’t cease till she did so.

Boldireff agreed to offer Bono her quantity on the situation that he would go away her alone, however he proceeded to textual content her the identical day.

When Bono pleaded responsible, his lawyer Maya Amar and the Crown made a joint advice asking that he be allowed to serve his sentence in the neighborhood for 2 years. Amar emphasised that if Bono follows all of his circumstances, he might be left with no prison document and can subsequently be allowed to proceed residing at a useful resource centre really helpful by the Philippe-Pinel Institute that retains him below surveillance whereas he’s being handled by a psychologist and a psychiatrist.

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On Wednesday, Quebec Court docket Choose Flavia Longo agreed with the joint advice. It got here with an extended record of circumstances, together with that Bono not be inside 100 metres of Boldireff or any members of her household.

“I’m not happy, however I admit that it’s cheap,” Boldireff instructed the Montreal Gazette after the decide delivered her choice. “I hope that he respects his circumstances. I hope that he respects the total letter of the legislation. I personally hope that he’s totally rehabilitated in two years and that there aren’t any extra victims.

“There are systemic obstacles for victims of crimes. There must be a system the place victims of crimes — particularly victims of sexual violence — can report them and be handled with dignity, respect and be taken critically.”

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She described her expertise with the justice system as “a nightmare.” At first, she stated, the Montreal police didn’t take her criticism critically, and now “I can’t even get an IVAC consultant on the telephone.” It was a reference to the Indemnisation des victimes d’actes criminels, the federal government group that decides whether or not a sufferer of against the law ought to be compensated.

Boldireff stated she has been vocal about what she went by so different victims can keep away from related experiences.

“I’m hoping to boost consciousness of those particular factors after which transfer on,” she stated.

Boldireff has been instructed {that a} listening to might be held earlier than the Quebec Human Rights Tribunal on how the Montreal police dealt together with her criticism.

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