Chelsea -- Michael Jacques, the Randolph man charged with kidnapping his 12-year-old niece Brooke Bennett before her death, said during a 2004 court hearing that abuse he suffered as a boy led him to sexually assault girls and young women.
It had been an issue in my life for quite a long time, since I was probably about seven years old, actually, Jacques, who is now 42, said during an October 2004 hearing in which he requested to be released from probation, according to a transcript obtained by the Valley News yesterday. I was abused when I was seven until I was ten years old and that's when I, that's when I really started having issues.
Having issues, meaning that you started to be the aggressor and started sexually assaulting others? Judge Amy Davenport asked.
Yeah, although
I never actually acted on them, but, you know, I mean, things start, I mean, I mean, acted on them when I was seven years old, but in my mind, you know, I would, Jacques replied.
During the 2004 hearing, Jacques did not say who abused him, nor did he detail the abuse.
Jacques offered the abuse as a reason for committing several sex assaults. So, some of the things that were identified right in the very beginning was my own anger issues surrounding my own, my own abuse and from that stemmed, you know, my
attitude towards people in general, actually, but particularly towards women. I didn't feel like I was protected by my mother, Jacques said.
