Samuel Moderie conceded he had used a lot of speed and consumed a lot of pornography while he committed his earlier crimes.
A man who was charged at the Montreal courthouse this week with sexually assaulting five women in seven months admitted in the past that a heavy consumption of pornography and speed contributed to previous convictions for the same crimes he is charged with.
Samuel Moderie, 28, of St-Zotique, faces 13 charges alleging he sexually assaulted five women, including three in Montreal, between July 1 and Jan. 7. The Montreal police believe he met the women through dating sites and drugged them without their knowledge before he allegedly sexually assaulted them.
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He was on probation when he was arrested on Wednesday. The probation was part of a sentence Moderie received in 2019 after he pleaded guilty, at a courthouse in St-Jérôme, to sexual assault, armed sexual assault and administering a soporific drug to commit a crime.
On Aug. 12, 2019, he was sentenced to a two-year prion term to be followed by three years of probation.
According to a parole decision made by the Parole Board of Canada while Moderie was serving the sentence, he sexually assaulted a woman he knew in 2017 after he gave her a soporific drug that caused her to fall asleep. Moderie lied and told the woman she was taking Advil. The victim filed a complaint with police in July 2018.
When he was arrested, police seized Moderie’s phone and found nude photos of three people that had been taken between 2016 and 2018. Most of the photos were taken while one of the three was either asleep or unconscious.
After convincing his case management team that he had participated fully in rehabilitation programs, Moderie was granted full parole on Sept. 29, 2020. He conceded that he had used a lot of speed and consumed a lot of pornography while he committed his crimes.
“At the time of the commission of the offences, it is noted in your file that psychoactive drugs and the use of pornography had become for you escapes, means of coping with stress, difficult emotions as well as your feelings of emptiness,” the parole board wrote in the summary of its decision.
“These elements would have led you to consider voyeurism as acceptable and consent as incidental.”
The summary also describes how, in 2019, Moderie underwent tests that “revealed a valid and deviant profile of sexual interests. The auditory scenario that generated the strongest sexual arousal was one that described a sexual assault of an adult woman with humiliation. Thus, the factor ‘sadistic deviance of sexual interests’ is identified as a risk factor involved in your dynamic of sexual offending. During the assessment, you denied having any interest in rape, humiliation or violence against women.”
Moderie is currently detained and is scheduled to have a bail hearing next week.
pcherry@postmedia.com
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