Assaults by Eric Claude Trachy resulted in long-ranging effects on mental and physical health, victims say, as Crown seems five-year sentence
This translation has been automatically generated and has not been verified for accuracy.Violin Teacher Claude Eric Trachy tries to conceal his identity after leaving the Ontario Court of Appeal in Toronto in May, 2019. Last July, three Ontario Court of Appeal judges overturned 28 of Mr. Trachy’s acquittals on sexual assault and indecent assault charges against his students and replaced them with convictions.
The women are now in their late 30s to mid-60s. Seven delivered victim-impact statements in person at the teacher’s sentencing on Monday. The Crown read the accounts of four additional women, and three more victims submitted their statements directly to the judge. In their victim-impact statements, the women talked about the long-ranging effects on their mental and physical health, intimate relationships, family dynamics and finances, with time missed at work, mounting therapy bills and career aspirations abandoned amid lingering anxiety and depression.A.G. said she was 12 when her teacher requested she play with her breast exposed throughout most of their weekly sessions.
M.A. was also an adolescent when the touching began. “It was icky and uncomfortable. I was only 12 years old. I didn’t know what I should have done,” she said. “I slept the entire summer when I was 15.”
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