CANADA Canada - Cedrika Provencher, 9, Trois-Rivieres, QC, 31 July 2007

[matou]

66 year old Claude Richard of Shawinigan (a small town near Trois-Rivières) and volunteer for the Cédrika Provencher foundation, was arrested and is now being accused of possession and distribution of child pornography. He will be back in court next week.

Too many of these sickos. He was probably excited about the fact Cedrika was taken by a pedo-murderer and probably obsessed with her. Sick.

 

[Tarik]

The investigation is still ongoing, the police raided his house and confiscated computer material as part of the evidence they are trying to collect.

 

[Jets4Life]

Jonathan Bettez time as a free man is running out. It's only a matter of time before he is charged with Cedrika's murder. He has been the Prime Suspect since at least 2008. All the child pornography found on him just proves that he cannot contain his urges to sexually assault another innocent girl. He should be locked up. I just pray DNA is linked to him, as there is no question in my mind he murdered her.

 

[dotr]

http://www.journaldemontreal.com/2017/05/31/affaire-jonathan-bettez-la-cause-remise-au-14-juin
https://translate.google.ca/transla...bettez-la-cause-remise-au-14-juin&prev=search

TROIS-RIVIÈRES | The case of Jonathan Bettez, accused of child pornography and also a suspect in the kidnapping of Cedrika Provencher, was postponed until 14 June. The accused was not present on Wednesday at the Courthouse of Trois-Rivières. He was represented by a replacement counsel, Marc-Antoine Carette.
For the ninth time, the case was postponed in June before a coordinating judge to resolve this issue

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[matou]

Preliminary inquiry into the child porn allegations will happen on December 11-15

Jonathan Bettez is now charged with child porn access and possession up until the DAY of his arrest, last August 29, 2016 in Trois Rivieres.

http://www.journaldequebec.com/2017...ornographie-juvenile-plus-longtemps-que-prevu

 

[matou]

It was 10 years ago.....

Events mark 10th anniversary of young Quebec girl's disappearance

Cedrika's grandfather, Henri Provencher, unveiled plans Monday to create a non-profit research centre aimed at preventing child abduction that will be linked to a foundation he helped set up in his granddaughter's name several years ago.
The independent centre will follow up on projects of the separate Cedrika Provencher Foundation, but will be open to suggestions from other organizations or individuals interested in submitting their ideas on preventing the abuse of children.

http://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/events...3?hootPostID=5cb63dc4fe5bff26478a31238f99f284

 

[Tarik]

Both Radio-Canada and TVA are having a special one hour report on the case as we speak.

 

[dotr]

http://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/events...f-young-quebec-girl-s-disappearance-1.3526353

According to RCMP statistics from last year, child abductions by a stranger, as is believed to be the case in Cedrika's disappearance, remained quite rare amid thousands of disappearances and runaway events.

And numbers provided by the Mounties show 59 per cent of disappearances involving children in 2016 were solved within the first 24 hours, with the figure climbing to 92 per cent within a week.

As for abductions that ended with a slaying, the Canadian Centre for Child Protection documented those cases.

Their figures show 155 young Canadians aged 16 and under were slain in this manner between 1970 and 2010, including 31 from Quebec.

The centre also analyzed the circumstances surrounding the abduction of those victims:

-- 41 per cent occurred in the summer;

-- 45 per cent occurred on a Friday or Saturday;

-- 67 per cent of the cases involved the child walking or cycling to a destination such as a park or a friend's home.

 

[Tarik]

Yeah child abductions which result in a murder is not something that we see every other day in Canada so these numbers don't surprise me at all. There's a reason why this case received so much coverage because the last child abduction case in Quebec prior to 2007 happened in Montreal in 1999.

 

[dotr]

Strange and terrible story today associated with a person involved with a film about Cedrika.
http://www.websleuths.com/forums/showthread.php?349424-Canada-Louka-Fredette-6-Saint-Eustache-PQ-14-Sept-2017&p=13628685#post13628685
Amber Alert issued out of Quebec for missing 6 y.o. Louka Fredette

http://montrealgazette.com/news/loca...in-st-eustache

Police were reporting that a dead woman had been found on Antoine-Séguin Blvd. in St-Eustache, and her death is linked to the case. Fredette’s Facebook page said he was in a relationship with Véronique Barbe. Her page shows pictures of her with four children, including Louka, and with Fredette. Fredette’s Facebook page also indicates he was a filmmaker, collaborating on films that had unsolved crimes or kidnapping as their theme. He had been working on a film about Cédrika Provencher, a 9-year-old girl who disappeared from Trois-Rivières in 2007. Her remains were discovered in 2015.

 

[Jets4Life]

Any updates on this case. Unfortunately, the Cedrika Provencher case has very little news in English Canada. If anyone can translate the French articles from Quebec, it would be greatly appreciated.

 

[matou]

There are a few reports detailing how police were surveilling Bettez by tricking him to think he had won a contest. Police pretended to befriend him brought him to play golf and to restaurants and casinos. At a golf course in August of 2009, JB remarked about a 10-12 year old girl in a bikini and then added that she looked young.

More to come, I'm sure.

Articles are all in French.

Affaire Cédrika Provencher : des documents montrent l'ampleur de la traque de Bettez | ICI.Radio-Canada.ca

 

[matou]

Looks like it was a "Mr. Big" police sting that may not have worked.

 

[matou]

Many English articles now.

https://www.google.ca/amp/s/www.cbc.ca/amp/1.4744698

Cedrika Provencher: Court affidavits reveal dedicated pursuit of one suspect

 

[cybervampira]

Court documents reveal futile police effort to find nine-year-old Quebec girl's killer

 

[iulia]

Jonathan Bettez, suspect in death of Cédrika Provencher, acquitted of child porn charges | CBC News

Jonathan Bettez, a Trois-Rivières, Que., man suspected by police of being involved in the 2007 disappearance of nine-year-old Cédrika Provencher, has been acquitted on all counts of child pornography charges.

 

[matou]

Jonathan Bettez, suspect in death of Cédrika Provencher, acquitted of child porn charges | CBC News

Wow......

 

[Tarik]

Apparently, law enforcement violated his rights by confiscating his laptop and a whole bunch of other stuff. A lot of people in Quebec are stunned and there will be an appeal.

 

[rogue ant]

Jonathan Bettez is suing the Sûreté du Québec for $10M.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/jonathan-bettez-suing-sq-10-million-1.5255644

 

[dotr]

Jonathan Bettez is suing the Sûreté du Québec for $10M.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/jonathan-bettez-suing-sq-10-million-1.5255644

LE were certainly creative, imo.
So if not JB, who??
From link.
"As part of its investigation, the Sûreté du Québec also made Bettez believe that he had won a contest to stay at the Fairmont Hotel in Mont-Tremblant, the documents show.

In Mont-Tremblant, the other winners of the contest, who were also undercover agents, played golf games and visited the casino with him."