A former Crown attorney who prosecuted Alice Munro’s husband says he always assumed a desire to protect the author’s reputation was among the reasons why Gerald Fremlin’s sexual abuse of Munro's daughter went unreported even after he pleaded guilty.
A former Crown attorney who prosecuted Alice Munro’s husband says he always assumed a desire to protect the author’s reputation was among the reasons why Gerald Fremlin’s sexual abuse of Munro's daughter went unreported even after he pleaded guilty.
Morris, who is now a criminal defence lawyer in Goderich, thought that’s because most of Munro’s family didn’t want “to harm her reputation” by revealing that her husband was a sexual offender. Skinner wrote that her father, Munro's first husband Jim Munro, never acted decisively to protect her and that her Nobel Prize-winning mother's fame meant"the silence continued." Her sisters described to the Toronto Star in their own words how the family settled under a dome of silence, torn between their love for their mother and what had happened to Skinner.
“So that's, you know, a little unusual to have it done with so quickly,” Morris said. “My kind of sense of it was that they wanted to get it in and out of the system. A retired Ontario Provincial Police detective who informed Fremlin of the charge against him in 2004 remembered how furious Munro was during the arrest.
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